MECH 597(MECH 691Q)

Advanced Microsystem Technology

 

Fall Semester, 2005

 

Course summary:

 

Microfabrication technology: bulk micromachining; surface micromachining: film deposition, chemical and plasma etching,

DRIE; wafer bonding; surface treatment for bio-compatibility; application in accelerometers, pressure sensors,

micromirrors and microfluidic devices; nano-fabrication.

 

Prerequisites: MECH 595 Introduction to Microsystem Technology or equivalent (such as Introduction to CMOS Device Fabrication)

 

Lecturer:  Dr. Yi-Kuen Lee,  E-mail:  meyklee@ust.hk

                     Tel: 2358-8663, Rm 2563, Office hour:

 

Lectures schedule:  6:30pm- 9:20pm, every Thursday, Rm 2463.

 

Reference textbook:

 

Fundamentals of Microfabrication: The Science of Miniaturization, 2nd ed., Marc Madou, CRC Press (TK7836 .M33, HKUST LIB)

ISBN: 0849308267, 2002.  buy from online bookstore or Asia Publishers Services LTD, Hong Kong  (Tel:2553-9289, email: apsjani@netvigator.com) 

 

Grading policy:

 

25% - Mid term exam

40% - Term project

10% - Class attendance and participation

25% - Homework. No numerical credit given if late. However, it is most important that  

           you turn it in, even if late. You are expected to do your own work.

 

Important Dates:

 

13 Oct 2005 (Thur): Midterm

 3 Nov 2005:  Project proposal due

15 Dec 2005 (Thur): Final Project Presentation + Final Projec Report, Venue: Rm 2465, Time: 4:30pm-7:30pm

 

      Final Project Presnetation Schedule

 

Related courses:

 

     MECH595 Introduction to Microsystem Technology

     ELEC 507  Microelectronics Fabrication Technology

     ELEC 508  Integrated Circuit Fabrication Laboratory

     HKUST EE VLSI IC CAD website

     HKUST Analog IC group website

 

Course conduct:

Please respect your classmates and others by turning off your pagers and mobile phones during the class.

 

Syllabus:

 

1  Introduction to Microsystem Technology (MEMS), NHK Nanospace video

 

2  Photolithography and Layout, ASME Video: MEMS: Cases Studies of Commercial Products, 1996

 

3  Thin film formation: dry and wet oxidation

 

4  Thin film formation: LPCVD (polysilicon, low stress nitride, PSG),  PECVD

 

5 Thin film formation: e-beam evaporation and sputtering

 

6 Impurity Doping: diffusion and ion implantation

 

7 Wet etching: isotropic and anistropic  (KOH, EDP, TMAH)

 

8 Dry etching: plasma etching, reactive ion etching (RIE) and Deep RIE for high-aspect-ratio silicon

   etching

 

9 Wafer bonding: fusion bonding, anodic bonding, eutectic bonding, Nov 8

 

10 Microfabrication CAD, TBA

 

11 Microfabrication processes for accelerometers and pressure sensors, Nov 15

 

12 Microfabrication processes for digital micromirrors,

 

13 Microfabrication processes for microchannel and other microfluidic devices

 

14 Introduction to Nanotecnology and NEMS

 

15 Term project presentation

 

Homework:

 

      Homework#1: due 8 Sep 2005  

 

      Homework#2: due 15 Sep 2005   

 

      Homework#3: due 7 Oct 2005    New!

 

 

Lecture Notes: (PDF files may need Adobe Reader 5.0 or above)

 

 

  1. Lec 1 slide  Feynman’s paper
  2. Silicon as a Mechanical Material, K. Petersen, Proceeding of IEEE, Vol. 70, No. 5, pp.420-457, 1982.
  3. New Micro Stereo Lithgraphy fro Freely Movable 3D Micro Structure, Koji Ikuta et al, IEEE Intl. MEMS Conference, pp.290-295,1998

Fabrication of Thick Silicon Dioxide Layers Using DRIE, Oxidation and Trench Refill, Zhang, C. and Najafi, K., IEEE MEMS 2002, pp.160-163.

Lec 2 slides,  Extra slides in Lec 2 for microfab

  1. Lec 3 slides

Deposition, Chap 1, Ted Kaimins, Polycrystalline Silicon for Integrated Circuit Applications, Kluwer Academic

CVD ref  

  1. Lec 4 slides

For ref only: Sigmund, P., Theory of Sputtering. I. Sputtering Yield of Amorphous and Polycrystalline Targets, Phys. Rev.Vol.184, No.2, 

                  pp.383-416, 1969.

  1. Lec 5 slides

Piezoresistance Effect in Germanium and Silicon, Phys. Rev. Vol. 94, No. 1, pp.42–49, 1954.

Piezoresistance effect of silicon, Kanda, Y., Sensors and Actuators A, Vol. 28, pp.83-91, 1991.

A simulation program for the sensitivity and linearity of piezoresistive pressure sensors, Lin, L. et al., J.MEMS, Vol. 8, No.4 , pp.514 –522, 1999.

Piezoresitive AFM probe, Harley, J.A., Stanford PhD dissertation, 2000.

 

  1. Lec 6 slides

Crystal Cube model layout

Etching selectivity table, from Micromachine and Micromechtronics, Esashi, M. et al., Baifukan Co., Japan, 1992.

            Etching table, Kirt Williams,1996

Etch rate for micromachining processing, William, K.R., J. MEMS, Vol.5, No. 4, pp.256-269, 1996

Nanopillar by Ion implantation and TMAH etching, IEDM 2002

 

  1. Plasma Etching Technology Overview, handout 

Lec 7 Dry Etch slides   Review slides

 

O’Brien, X. Cheng and L.J. Guo, Deep Reactive Ion Etched Submicron Beam/Trench Characterization,  ASME IMECE 2001, New York, Nov 11-16, New York, 2001 (Paper No: IMECE2001/MEMS-2386).

 

J. Kim and C.-J. Kim, Nanostructured Surfaces for Dramatic Reduction of Flow Resistance in Droplet-Based Microfluidics, IEEE MEMS 2002, Las Vegas, USA, pp. 479-482.

 

C. Cottin-Bizonne, J.-L. Barrat, L. Bocquet and E. Charlaix, Low-Friction Flows of Liquid at Nanopatterned Interface, Nature Materials, Vol. 2, pp.237-240, 2003.

 

V. Milanovic, L. Doherty, A Simple Process for Lateral Single Crystal Silicon Nanowires, ASME IMECE 2002, New Orleans, USA (Paper No: IMECE2002-33392).

 

 

      9.   Lec 8 slides

            MEMS Bonding review paper: Proceeding of IEEE, Vol.86, No.8 pp.1575-85, 1998.

 

  1. Lec 9 slides

Micromachined Inertia Sensors, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol.86, No.8, pp.1640-1659, 1998.

Overview of Automotive Sensors, IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol.1, No.4, pp.296-308, 2001.

 

Laterally driven polysilicon resonant microstructures, IEEE MEMS, pp. 53-59, 1989

 

  1. Lec 10 slides

Analog Device ADXL05 microaccelerometer datasheet.  Analog Device website

Murata Piezoelectric micro vibrating gyroscope datasheet.

An Integrated Microelectromechanical Resonant Output Gyroscope, IEEE MEMS 2002.

A MEMS-based projection display, Proceeding of the IEEE, Vol. 86, No. 8, pp.1687-1704, 1998.

 

  1. Lec 11 slides

 

     Reyes, D.R., et al., Micrototal Analysis Systems. 1. Introduction, Theoery, and Technology, Analytical Chemistry, 2002

 

     Auroux, P.-A., et al, Micrototal Analysis Systems. 2. Anaytical Standard Operations and Application, Analytical Chemistry, 2002

 

      Burns, M.A., et al., “An Integrated Nanoliter DNA Analysis Device,” Science, Vol. 282, No. 5388, Oct 16 pp.484-487, 1998.

 

      Biosensor review paper 1:   Yang, M., et al, Genosensor technology and the detection of interfacial nucleic acid chemistry, Analytica Chimica

      Acta, Vol.346, pp.259-275, 1997.

 

      Biosensor review paper 2:  Ivnitski, D., et al., Biosensors for detection of pathogenic bacteria, Biosensors & Bioelectronics, Vol. 14,

      pp.599-624, 1999.

 

      Liu, X., et al., Molecular Beacons for DNA Biosensors with Micrometer to Submicrometer Dimensions, Analytical Biochemistry, Vol.283,

      pp.56-63, 2000.

 

            DNA microarray: Fodor, S. et al., Light-Directed, Spatially Addressable Parallel Chemical Synthesis, Science, Vol. 251, pp.767-773,1991.

 

            DNA microarray (PGA)+DMD, LeProust E. et al., Digital light-directed synthesis. A microarray platform that permits rapid reaction 

            optimization on a  combinatorial basis, Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry, Vol.2(4), pp.349-54, 2000.

 

            DNA microarry (PGA)+DMD+microfluidics : Xeotron Inc., Houston, Texas

 

  1. Lec 12 slides: MEMS CAD

Lec 12 slides: Nano

            Nanotopia video script (HKUST Library:   TA418.9.N35 N36, BBC, 1998)  

            H.G. Craighead, Nanoelectromechanical System, Science, Vol. 290, pp. 1532-1535, 2000.

            CPU Breakthrough: Chips Enter the Nano-Age, Extreme Tech, Sep 13, 2002

            http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,533496,00.asp

            Nanobiotechnology

       15. BBC Superhuman video

             SUPREM 4 developed by Stanford, free Microfabrication process simulation program in Window 2000

              (http://www.me.ust.hk/~mech597/note/suprem.zip   )

 

References

 

Online semiconductor glossary

 

Companies involved in MEMS products in the worlds

http://www.me.ust.hk/~mech597/mech597_mems_com.html

 

MEMS tutorial

 

UCB Online lecture

 

ME 219 Microelectromechanical Systems, Spring 2002

EE 245/ME C218   Introduction to MEMS Design, Fall 2002

 

 

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