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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Michele Pozzi, Dr Alun Harris, Emeritus Professor James Burdess, Dr Gordon Phelps, Professor Nick Wright
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SiC is widely recognized as an ideal candidate for electronics and sensors required to operate at extremely high temperatures. Cubic SiC (3C-SiC) is preferred to the hexagonal polytypes for the fabrication of mechanical devices due to its lower cost (a film is deposited on a Si substrate) and greater ease of fabrication. As the deposited SiC film is normally quite thin, some traditional designs of devices are not suitable. The Capacitive Ring-Electrode Accelerometer (CREA) introduced in this paper offers much greater design flexibility. Featuring a central boss of un-prescribed thickness, the value of its seismic mass can be set over a wide range, independently of the sensing capacitance. The latter is realized between a SiC electrode, which surrounds and moves together with the boss, and the underlying substrate. The CREA design was extensively analysed in a FE environment and prototypes were fabricated. Pressure sensors based on the deformable membrane principle and piezoresistive pickup have also been designed, fabricated and tested. The dependence of apex displacement on pressure was used to extract the Young's modulus and the residual stress of the SiC film (bulge test). The membrane was investigated by optical profilometry at various values of pressure and at temperatures between 300 K and 800 K. The shape of the membrane was compared with the FE predictions with a positive outcome.
Author(s): Pozzi M, Harris AJ, Burdess JS, Argyrakis P, Lee KK, Cheung R, Phelps GJ, Wright NG
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: Device and process technologies for microelectronics, MEMS, photonics, and nanotechnology IV: Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering
Year of Conference: 2007
Pages: -
Publisher: Society for Optical Engineering
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.758245
DOI: 10.1117/12.758245
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ISBN: 9780819469717
