Capacitive microphone with a surface micromachined backplate usingelectroplating technology |
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Authors: | Bergqvist J Gobet J |
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Affiliation: | Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA, Neuchatel; |
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Abstract: | A technology for surface micromachining of free-standing metal microstructures using metal electrodeposition on a sacrificial photoresist layer has been applied to a condenser microphone. Electroplating technology has been used to implement a suspended and perforated 15-μm-thick microstructure in copper, which serves as backplate electrode in the condenser microphone. The 1.8×1.8 mm 2 large microphone diaphragm is in monocrystalline silicon and is fabricated with anisotropic etching of the substrate wafer. The realized prototypes have a measured sensitivity of 1.4 mV/Pa using a bias voltage of 28 V. The bandwidth is limited by an anti-resonance at 14 kHz which is due to the semi-rigid backplate. The resonance behavior of the backplate structure has been analyzed with finite element modeling with results in good agreement with measured data |
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