Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device. The MEMS device includes a first dielectric structure disposed over a first semiconductor substrate, where the first dielectric structure at least partially defines a cavity. A second semiconductor substrate is disposed over the first dielectric structure and includes a movable mass, where opposite sidewalls of the movable mass are disposed between opposite sidewall of the cavity. A first piezoelectric anti-stiction structure is disposed between the movable mass and the first dielectric structure, wherein the first piezoelectric anti-stiction structure includes a first piezoelectric structure and a first electrode disposed between the first piezoelectric structure and the first dielectric structure

Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an integrated chip including a capping structure over a device substrate. The device substrate includes a first microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device and a second MEMS device laterally offset from the first MEMS device. The capping structure includes a first cavity overlying the first MEMS device and a second cavity overlying the second MEMS device. The first cavity has a first gas pressure and the second cavity has a second gas pressure different from the first cavity. An outgas layer abutting the first cavity. The outgas layer includes an outgas material having an outgas species. The outgas material is amorphous.

The present invention provides a MEMS pressure sensor and a manufacturing method. The pressure is formed by a top cap wafer, a MEMS wafer and a bottom cap wafer. The MEMS wafer comprises a frame and a membrane, the frame defining a cavity. The membrane is suspended by the frame over the cavity. The bottom cap wafer closes the cavity. The top cap wafer has a recess defining with the membrane a capacitance gap. The top cap wafer comprises a top cap electrode located over the membrane and forming, together with the membrane, a capacitor to detect a deflection of the membrane. Electrical contacts on the top cap wafer are connected to the top cap electrode. A vent extends from outside of the sensor into the cavity or the capacitance gap. The pressure sensor can include two cavities and two capacitance gaps to form a differential pressure sensor.

A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface arranged opposite to the first surface; a stress-sensitive sensor disposed at the first surface of the substrate, where the stress-sensitive sensor is sensitive to mechanical stress; a stress-decoupling trench that has a vertical extension that extends from the first surface into the substrate, where the stress-decoupling trench vertically extends partially into the substrate towards the second surface although not completely to the second surface; and a plurality of particle filter trenches that vertically extend from the second surface into the substrate, wherein each of the plurality of particle filter trenches have a longitudinal extension that extends orthogonal to the vertical extension of the stress-decoupling trench.

Disclosed herein is a sensor package substrate that includes a first mounting area for mounting a sensor chip. The sensor package substrate has a through hole formed at a position overlapping the first mounting area in a plan view so as to penetrate the sensor package substrate from one surface to the other surface. The through hole includes a first section having a first diameter and a second section having a second diameter smaller than the first diameter. A step part inside the through hole positioned at a boundary between the first and second sections constitutes a second mounting area for mounting an anti-dust filter.

An example of a cavity structure comprises a cavity substrate comprising a substrate surface, a cavity extending into the cavity substrate, the cavity having a cavity bottom and cavity walls, and a cap disposed on a side of the cavity opposite the cavity bottom. The cavity substrate, the cap, and the one or more cavity walls form a cavity enclosing a volume. A component can be disposed in the cavity and can extend above the substrate surface. The component can be a piezoelectric or a MEMS device. The cap can have a tophat configuration. The cavity structure can be micro-transfer printed from a source wafer to a destination substrate.

Wafer level encapsulated packages includes a wafer, a glass substrate hermetically sealed to the wafer, and an electronic component. The glass substrate includes a glass cladding layer fused to a glass core layer and a cavity formed in the glass substrate. The electronic component is encapsulated within the cavity. In various embodiments, the floor of the cavity is planar and substantially parallel to a plane defined by a top surface of the glass cladding layer. The glass cladding layer has a higher etch rate in an etchant than the glass core layer. In various embodiments, the wafer level encapsulated package is substantially optically transparent. Methods for forming the wafer level encapsulated package and electronic devices formed from the wafer level encapsulated package are also described.

A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface arranged opposite to the first surface; a stress-sensitive sensor disposed at the first surface of the substrate, where the stress-sensitive sensor is sensitive to mechanical stress; a stress-decoupling trench that has a vertical extension that extends from the first surface into the substrate, where the stress-decoupling trench vertically extends partially into the substrate towards the second surface although not completely to the second surface; and a plurality of particle filter trenches that vertically extend from the second surface into the substrate, wherein each of the plurality of particle filter trenches have a longitudinal extension that extends orthogonal to the vertical extension of the stress-decoupling trench.

An optical electronics device includes first, second and third wafers. The first wafer has a semiconductor substrate with a dielectric layer on a side of the semiconductor substrate. The second wafer has a transparent substrate with an anti-reflective coating on a side of the transparent substrate. The first wafer is bonded to the second wafer at a silicon dioxide layer between the semiconductor substrate and the anti-reflective coating. The first and second wafers include a cavity extending from the dielectric layer through the semiconductor substrate and through the silicon dioxide layer to the anti-reflective coating. The third wafer includes micromechanical elements. The third wafer is bonded to the dielectric layer, and the micromechanical elements are contained within the cavity.

In one example, an electronic device can comprise (a) a first substrate comprising a first encapsulant extending from the first substrate bottom side to the first substrate top side, and a first substrate interconnect extending from the substrate bottom side to the substrate top side and coated by the first encapsulant, (b) a first electronic component embedded in the first substrate and comprising a first component sidewall coated by the first encapsulant, (c) a second electronic component coupled to the first substrate top side, (d) a first internal interconnect coupling the second electronic component to the first substrate interconnect, and (e) a cover structure on the first substrate and covering the second component sidewall and the first internal interconnect. Other examples and related methods are also disclosed herein.