MEMS device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11889282-B2
Application number	US-202217826184-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 27, 2022
Priority date	May 27, 2022
Publication date	Jan 30, 2024
Grant date	Jan 30, 2024

Abstract

Provided is a MEMS device. The MEMS device includes: substrate having back cavity passing therethrough; diaphragm connected to the substrate and covers the back cavity, the diaphragm comprises first and second membranes, and accommodating space is formed between the first and second membranes; supports arranged in the accommodating space, and opposite ends of the support are connected to the first and second membranes; counter electrode arranged in the accommodating space, the first and second membranes each include conductive and second regions, the second region is formed by semiconductor material without doping conductive ions. Through design of the first and second membranes as the first region and the second region, respectively, the second region is formed by semiconductor material without doping conductive ions, and the first region is formed by doping conductive ions in the semiconductor material, so that the compliance performance is improved and not at risk of delamination.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) device, comprising:
a substrate having a back cavity passing through the substrate;
a diaphragm connected to the substrate and covers the back cavity, wherein the diaphragm comprises a first membrane and a second membrane arranged opposite to each other, and an accommodating space is formed between the first membrane and the second membrane;
a plurality of supports arranged in the accommodating space, and opposite ends of each of the plurality of supports are respectively connected to the first membrane and the second membrane; and
a counter electrode arranged in the accommodating space and spaced apart from the first membrane and the second membrane,
wherein a plurality of ventilation slots are provided on the diaphragm along a circumferential direction thereof and are annularly spaced from each other, the plurality of ventilation slots successively penetrate through the first membrane, the supports and the second membrane,
the first membrane and the second membrane each comprises a first region and a second region, the first region extends from a center of the diaphragm toward an edge of the diaphragm and does not extend to the ventilation slots,
the first region is an electrode region, the second region is located at a circumferential outer side of the first region, and
the second region is formed by a semiconductor material without doping conductive ions, and the first region is formed by doping conductive ions in the semiconductor material.

2. The MEMS device according to claim 1 , further comprising a bonding pad connected to an external circuit and a conducting track connecting the first region to the bonding pad, wherein the conducting track is arranged avoiding the plurality of ventilation slots.

3. The MEMS device according to claim 1 , wherein the first membrane comprises a plurality of first protrusions protruding toward the accommodating space, and the second membrane includes a plurality of second protrusions protruding toward the accommodating space, and the plurality of first protrusions and the plurality of second protrusions are connected by the supports.

4. The MEMS device according to claim 3 , wherein a plurality of through holes are provided on the electrode region, and the plurality of through holes, the plurality of first protrusions and the plurality of second protrusions are in one-to-one correspondence.

5. The MEMS device according to claim 4 , wherein in at least one of the plurality of support members close to the edge of the diaphragm, the first sections is each composed of a plurality of second sections concentrically arranged, the plurality of second sections are arranged at intervals, and a second notch is formed between two adjacent ones of the plurality of second sections.

6. The MEMS device according to claim 5 , wherein the plurality of first sections and the plurality of second sections are each an arc section.

7. The MEMS device according to claim 1 , wherein the supports each comprise a plurality of support members arranged concentrically, and the plurality of support members are spaced along a radial direction of the diaphragm with a center of the diaphragm regarded as the center; and each of the plurality of support members is composed of a plurality of first sections concentrically arranged, the plurality of first sections are arranged at intervals, and a first notch is formed between two adjacent ones of the plurality of first sections.

8. The MEMS device according to claim 7 , wherein positions of the first notches in two adjacent one of the plurality of support members are in a one-to-one correspondence, and arc lengths of the first notches increase along the radial direction of the diaphragm.

Assignees

• Aac Acoustic Tech Shenzhen Co Ltd

Inventors

• Boyd Euan James
• Cargill Scott Lyall
• Kervran Yannick Pierre

Classifications

• H04R7/06 Primary

  comprising a plurality of sections or layers · CPC title

• B81B3/0021

  Transducers for transforming electrical into mechanical energy or vice versa (dynamo-electric machines H02K99/00; electrostatic machines H02N1/00; piezoelectric devices H10N30/00) · CPC title

• H04R7/18

  at the periphery · CPC title

• H04R19/04

  Microphones (H04R19/01 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B81B2201/0257

  Microphones or microspeakers · CPC title