B81C2201/0143

MICROSTRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME

This present disclosure provides a microstructure and a method for manufacturing the same. The method includes: disposing a liquid film on a surface of a substrate, wherein a solid-liquid interface is formed where the liquid film is in contact with the substrate; and irradiating the substrate with a laser of a predetermined waveband to etch the substrate at the solid-liquid interface, wherein the position where the laser is irradiated on the solid-liquid interface moves at least along a direction parallel to the surface of the substrate, and the absorption rate of the liquid film for the laser is greater than the absorption rate of the substrate for the laser.

ELECTRICAL CONTACTS USING AN ARRAY OF MICROMACHINED FLEXURES
20250233327 · 2025-07-17 ·

A contact having a first contact member having an exposed surface, the exposed surface having irregularities, undulations, or asperities that form one or more high points and low points on the exposed surface, a second contact member having a contact base surface, a plurality of electrically conductive flexures extending from the contact base surface, and when the first contact member is positioned adjacent to the second contact member in a closed position in which the contact base surface of the second contact member is not in electrical contact with the one or more high points on the exposed surface of the first contact member, each flexure of the plurality of flexures is in electrical contact with the exposed surface of the first contact member.

CAPLESS SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE WITH A MICRO-ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM (MEMS)
20210179423 · 2021-06-17 ·

A semiconductor package that contains an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) die and a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) die. The MEMS die and the ASIC die are coupled to a substrate that includes an opening that extends through the substrate and is in fluid communication with an air cavity positioned between and separating the MEMS die from the substrate. The opening exposes the air cavity to an external environment and, following this, the air cavity exposes a MEMS element of the MEMS die to the external environment. The air cavity separating the MEMS die from the substrate is formed with a method of manufacturing that utilizes a thermally decomposable die attach material.

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FORMATION OF CONTINUOUS CHANNELS WITHIN TRANSPARENT MATERIALS
20210187668 · 2021-06-24 ·

A system and method for producing continuous channels within a transparent material is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the system and method includes forming a channel with a laser beam, such that the continuous channel has at least one vent from the channel to outside the transparent material.

MEMS DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD AND MEMS DEVICE
20210147224 · 2021-05-20 ·

A MEMS device and a MEMS device manufacturing method are provided for suppressing damage to device parts. An exemplary method of manufacturing a resonance device includes radiating laser light from a bottom surface side of a second substrate to form modified regions inside the second substrate along dividing lines of a first substrate, which has device parts formed on a top surface thereof, and the second substrate, the top surface of which is bonded to the bottom surface of the first substrate via bonding portions. The method further includes dividing the first and second substrates along the dividing lines by applying stress to the modified regions. The bonding portions are formed along the dividing lines and block the laser light.

FABRICATING CALCITE NANOFLUIDIC CHANNELS

A method for fabricating calcite channels in a nanofluidic device is described. A porous membrane is attached to a substrate. Calcite is deposited in porous openings in the porous membrane attached to the substrate. A width of openings in the deposited calcite is in a range from 50 to 100 nanometers (nm). The porous membrane is etched to remove the porous membrane from the substrate to form a fabricated calcite channel structure. Each channel has a width in the range from 50 to 100 nm.

Methods of fabricating micro electro-mechanical systems structures

According to at least one embodiment, a method of fabricating a micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) structure is disclosed. The method involves causing an etchant to remove a portion of a sacrificial layer of the MEMS structure, the sacrificial layer between a structural layer of the MEMS structure and a substrate of the MEMS structure. In this embodiment, causing the etchant to remove the portion of the sacrificial layer involves causing a target portion of the substrate to be released from the MEMS structure. According to another embodiment, another method of fabricating a MEMS structure is disclosed. The method involves causing an etchant including water to remove a portion of a sacrificial layer of the MEMS structure, the sacrificial layer between a structural layer of the MEMS structure and a substrate of the MEMS structure. In this embodiment, the sacrificial layer and the substrate are hydrophobic.

MEMS DEVICE WITH PARTICLE FILTER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE
20210114866 · 2021-04-22 ·

A MEMS sensor with a media access opening in its carrier board. The MEMS sensor has an integrally filter mesh closing the media access opening. The mesh can be applied in unstructured form over the whole surface of the carrier board. Then, a structuring is performed to produce preferably at the same time a perforation forming the filter mesh.

Laser-Assisted Material Phase-Change and Expulsion Micro-Machining Process
20210139321 · 2021-05-13 · ·

A laser micro-machining process called laser-assisted material phase-change and expulsion (LAMPE) micromachining that includes cutting features in a cutting surface of a piece of material using a pulsed laser with intensity, pulse width and pulse rate set to melt and eject liquid material without vaporizing said material, or, in the case of silicon, create an ejectible silicon oxide. Burrs are removed from the cutting surface by electro-polishing the cutting surface with a dilute acid solution using an electric potential higher than a normal electro-polishing electric potential. A multi-lamina assembly of laser-micro-machined laminates (MALL) may utilize MEMS. In the MALL process, first, the individual layers of a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) are fabricated using the LAMPE micro-machining process. Next, the fabricated microstructure laminates are stack assembled and bonded to fabricate MEM systems. The MALL MEMS fabrication process enables greater material section and integration, greater design flexibility, low-cost manufacturing, rapid development, and integrated packaging.

TRANSPARENT MATERIAL PROCESSING METHOD, TRANSPARENT MATERIAL PROCESSING DEVICE, AND TRANSPARENT MATERIAL
20210061650 · 2021-03-04 ·

An object of one embodiment of the invention is to process a material simply and high efficiently.

A fabrication method of transparent material is a method of processing a thermosetting transparent material. The fabrication method of transparent material includes a disposing step (S01) of disposing an uncured thermosetting transparent material, a laser beam irradiation step (S02) of irradiating the disposed uncured thermosetting transparent material with a laser beam so that cavitation bubbles are generated in the uncured thermosetting transparent material, and a curing step (S03) of performing a curing process on the uncured thermosetting transparent material in which the cavitation bubbles are generated.