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FYS4260/FYS9260: Microsystems and Electronics Packaging and Interconnect
MEMS Packaging
Lecture topics
• Introduction to MEMS packaging concerns: Why MEMS packaging are more challenging than IC packaging
• Case example: MEMS for petroleum flow measurements
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From another lecture on MEMS packaging:
How realistic is this simplified picture on MEMS packaging? DISCUSS!
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Realistic MEMS packages usuallyinclude:• A sensor or actuator interface to the world
outside• Readout electronics (dedicated ASIC)• Careful mechanical design to avoid package
stress affecting MEMS elements• Must combine MEMS specific features with
footprint compatible with circuit boards
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MEMS are not ICs! Parallels to IC production are misleading and canbe dangerously naive
• IC development times ~ 12-18 months– Well established IC processes, design rules and
simulation tools– Competitive wafer costs– Standardized packaging
• MEMS design to product time line 3-5 years– Processes less standardized– Packaging challenges are hughe, and solutions are
considered a proprietary advantage• Packaging cost can exceed 50% or unit cost
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Example: Generic pressure sensor package
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MEMS specific packaging issues• Some systems must be open towards the
environment– Pressure sensors, microphones, loudspeaker– Chemical and fluidic elements
• Others need to be hermetically sealed, sometimeswith a reference gas and/or an anti stiction agent– Accelerometers/gyroscopes– Absolute pressure sensors (reference cavity)– Oscillators
• Delicate structures• MEMS sensors can sense package induced
stresses, which can cause zero offset, drift and non-linear behaviour
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MEMS packaging: No single solution possible
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Main package technologies for MEMS
• Plastic• Metal• Ceramic
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Metal package• Metal package is robust and easy to
assemble – good choice for prototypes• Standard TO-type (transistor outline)• Can only accommodate fewer than 10 pins.• TO-type package remain in use in a few
applications• Metal packages are attractive to MEMS,
especially for microfluidic devices• A metal hermetic package is often made of
ASTM F-15 (Kovar® ), stainless steel is also common
• Holes are punched, either through the bottom for plug-in packages, or sides for flat packages
• Metal leads are placed through the holes and beads of borosilicate glass
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Sensiron STD 60A series pressure sensors
Molded plastic package
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• Not hermetic• Two general approaches
• postmolding• premolding
• – In postmolding, the plastic housing is molded after the die is attached top a “lead frame” (a supporting metal sheet). The process subjects the die and the wire bonds to the harsh molding environment.
• – In premolding, the die is attached to a lead frame over which plastic was previously molded. It is attractive in situations where the risk of damaging the die is high, or openings through the plastic are necessary. More expensive.
Ceramic package• Wire bonding establish
electrical connectivity between the die and the metal traces on the ceramic header
• A Cu-Al brazed Kovar® sealring
• Transparent window consists of a polished Corning 7056 glass fused to a stamped gold-nickel-plated Kovar® frame
• Resistance seam welding of the seal ring on the ceramic base to the Kovar® glass frame
• Zeolite getters to ensure long-term desiccation
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MEMS vs IC design process
• IC: Design IC, offer IC in a range ofpackages
• MEMS: Co-design MEMS element, readoutelectronics and package, only offer a dedicated packaged product
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Wafer level packaging
• Wafer-level packaging (WLP) is the technology of packaging an integrated device while still part of the wafer.
• From a MEMS perspective, it is a question about which functions can be integrated on a wafer level, and what has to be done on a dice level.
• Can for example a vacuum cavity or smart connector solution for monolithic integration of MEMS and ASIC be realized on a wafer level in order to simplify subsequent packaging?
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Wafer bonding: Joining wafers
• Anodic Bonding• Direct Wafer Bonding
– Fusion Bonding– Plasma activated bonding
• Metallurgical methods for bonding
Anodic bonding
Anodic bonding is a wafer bonding process to hermetically seal glass to either silicon or metal without introducing an intermediate layer. This bonding technique is also known as field assisted bonding or electrostatic sealing
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Example of chip made from glass-silicon-glass anodicbonding
Anodic bonding geometry
In anodic bonding, an electrical field is applied to cause ion drift in the(borosilicate) glass which in turn causesbonding
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Scheme of anodic bonding procedure. The top tool works as a cathode and the chunk as anode. The process parameter are bond voltage UB, current limitation IB and bond temperature TB.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anodic_bonding
Anodic bonding process
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Ion drifting in bond glass influenced by electrostatic field.[8] (1) Formation of depletion zone (gray) through Na+ drifting. (2) Drift of O− ions in the depletion zone.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anodic_bonding
Direct wafer bonding:(Fusion bonding)• Direct bonding describes a wafer bonding
process without any additional intermediate layers. The bonding process is based on chemical bonds between two surfaces.
• Important that joined surfaces have low roughness level (at atomical levels e.g. 3-5 Å) and are planar
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Metallurgical approaches to waferbondingSoldering/bracing approaches can be used to join wafers. The most common example is theuse of deposited gold on wafers, following by an annealing step.The minimum in the liquidus line in the Au-Si phase diagram is at 363 C for 19 at % Si.
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Advanced packaging:3D packaging with thru silicon vias
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TSVs used by stacked DRAM-dice in combination with a High Bandwidth Memory interface.Courtesy Shmuel Csaba Otto Traian under CC-BY-SA4.0
Advanced packaging:Highly integrated MEMS components
• 9 axis Inertial MeasurementUnit from InvenSense withdigital output– 3 axis accelerometer– 3 axis gyroscope– 3 axis magnetometer– Signal processing
• Control of package stresses very challenging in smalldimensions
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Advanced packaging:Monolithic integrationMonolithic 3D ICs are built in layers on a single semiconductor wafer, which is then diced into 3D ICs. There is only one substrate, hence no need for aligning, thinning, bonding, or through-silicon vias.
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Cross section of a pixel consisting of CMOS backplane and MEMS mirror (16 µm pitch).From: http://www.ipms.fraunhofer.de/en/mems-foundry/micromechanics/technology-modules/monolithic_integration.html
Intro to case: Downhole petroleum flow measurements
Motivation: Knowand controlpetroleum flowfrom individualzones in branchedoil wells
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Application specific constraints
• High temperature (175 deg C)• High pressure (up to 1000 bar)• Hostile environment (highly corrosive)• Inaccessible• Relatively high cost acceptable
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How can we measure fluid flow in a pipe?
For example:• Rotary sensors (measure
propeller spin frequency) • Heat transfer sensors (thermal
mass flow sensor)• Velocity measurements, e.g. by
using Dopper-based methods. • Pressure change through a flow
constriction (venturi)
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Bernoulli flow sensorBernoulli equation for incompressible flow:
In constrictions, the speed goes up, and thepressure goes down.
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p1 p2
22222
21111 2
121 vVVpvVVp ρρ +=+
2211 vAvA =
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−=−=∆
AAvppp ρ
Measurement geometry
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Pressure inlets
dP
Sensing principle for MEMS element?
• Piezoresitive?• Capacitive?
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Recall: What is piezoresistivity?• Some materials change
electrical conductivigy whenstretched due to change in shape (metals) and/or deformations in their crystallattice
• Silicon has a large resistancechange as a function ofmechanical tension
• The resistance change is oftenmeasured using a Wheastonebridge configuration
Piezoresistive appraoch
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Torsion sensitive axis
Silicon element principle used – WHY?
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Dicsussion points:
• Can you see what type of microstructuringtechnology has been used?
• Where are the pressure ports• HTASIC• Is a reference capacitor actually needed?• Can you see what type of wafer bonding
technique is used?
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Silicon element principleCould we drop a silicon reference capacitorand do as follows?
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• Yes! Would give a smaller sensor element. However, would need:• External reference to compare with (which would then not be
affected by changes in the same way as te measurementmembrane)
• Package stress more likely to affect package
Sensor terms
• Accuracy (nøyaktighet): How close a reading is to a standardized reference
• Sensitivity (følsomhet): What are the smallest changespossible to detect?
• Zero-point offset: What is the reading when it wassupposed to be zero signal
• Drift: Change with time or other parameter• Hysteresis: Change in reading between + - and - +• Linearity: To what extent the sensor output is a constant
times the measured parameter
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How do we connect pressureconnectors to the silicon element?
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A tube! Whatmaterial, and howcan we attach it?
"Plumbing": Attach a tube to onepressure inlet
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Adhesion layer, for example NiCr
High temperature solder, for example 95Pb5Sn
Adhesion layer
Kovar (low CTE nickel–iron alloy) tube
The realized element connected to a Kovar tube
And now – how can we connect to this electrically?
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Electrical connection: Wirebonding
What wire metal should we use? (Pads are in aluminium)
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Wirebonding wire: Aluminium. But decision alsodepends on terminals outside the element
The sensor element as we see it will be exposed to several hundredbars. Electronics should not be exposed to more than a few bar. How can we work around this?
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We need an electrical feed-thru!
The sensor element will be in an environment of ~700 bar, hot petroleum and saline water. Is that ok?
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SteelGlass
Plated Kovar
Low pressureelectronics
compartment
No! We need to protect the sensor element from the hostile environments
The sensor element can be exposed to silicone oil, which is relativelyincompressible and does not affect electronics. Still, we needseparation membranes
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The solution
Can you figure out why the two membranes areof different size?FYS4260/FYS9260 Frode Strisland 43
Feedthru
Sensor element
Kovar tube
Separation membranes
Why membranes need to be different size: Thermal expansion effects• CTE of steel ~ 10 ppm/K• CTE of silicone oil ~ 100
ppm/K• Want to allow
membranes to be slightlybent outwards all thetime.
• Why should themembranes be bent outward and not inward?
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"Large" volume
"Small" volume
Measurement results
• Sensititity better than 1 mbar
• Temperature drift less than<2.5% FSO
• Common mode pressuredrift < 2.5 % FSO
• Can withstand more than15 bar static differentialpressure
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Test of differentialpressure
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y = 1,1027x - 79,811
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Estimated differential pressure
Final implementation• Several primary sensor collected in a
commen housing:– Absolute pressure– Differential pressure– Temperature– Capacitance– Acoustic sensor
• All signals transferred on a common"local bus".
Learning points• MEMS packaging often more demanding
than IC packaging:– IC packaging standardized vs MEMS packaging
solution customised and can be a competitiveadvantage
• Development of MEMS element, readoutelectronics and packaging cannot be done independently– Numerous examples of fancy MEMS elements
that turned out to be impossible to package• Knowledge on MEMS packaging is valuable:
– The cost of packaging often much more than the sensor element cost
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END OF LECTURE
Any questions?
This presentation is made for FYS4260/FYS9260 teaching purposes, and is not intended for publication elsewhere.