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Fabrication

About: Fabrication is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 20475 publications have been published within this topic receiving 235676 citations.


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01 Mar 2022-Matter
TL;DR: In this article , the authors introduce the concept of dry battery electrode (DBE) and analyzes their superiorities, protocols, scientific principles, and potential attempts at improving the performances and production efficiency of SSBs.

57 citations

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08 Jun 2003
TL;DR: In this article, a surface micromachining technology was proposed to fabricate monocrystalline silicon membranes covering a vacuum cavity for applications like piezoresistive pressure sensors.
Abstract: We report a new surface micromachining technology to fabricate monocrystalline silicon membranes covering a vacuum cavity for applications like piezoresistive pressure sensors. The main process steps are: (i) local anodic etching of layered porous silicon with different porosities, (ii) thermal rearrangement of the porous silicon, and (iii) epitaxial growth of the silicon membrane layer. In contrast to conventional bulk micromachining the new technology has the benefit of a considerable freedom in the design of mono-crystalline silicon membranes. The membrane geometry is only determined by the porous region. Further, the new fabrication method is fully CMOS compatible. In fact, except for anodic etching, all process steps are part of a standard mixed signal IC production line. Various aspects of the used key process steps are discussed, particularly with regard to the oxygen and fluorine desorption during the porous silicon annealing. A piezoresistive pressure sensor with integrated ASIC based on the new fabrication method is demonstrated.

57 citations

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TL;DR: A scalable fabrication method for single crystal diamond membrane windows that achieves three major goals with one fabrication method: providing high quality diamond, as confirmed by Raman spectroscopy; achieving homogeneously thin membranes, enabled by ion implantation; and providing compatibility with established planar fabrication via lithography and vertical etching.
Abstract: Diamond has emerged as a promising platform for nanophotonic, optical, and quantum technologies. High-quality, single crystalline substrates of acceptable size are a prerequisite to meet the demanding requirements on low-level impurities and low absorption loss when targeting large photonic circuits. Here, we describe a scalable fabrication method for single crystal diamond membrane windows that achieves three major goals with one fabrication method: providing high quality diamond, as confirmed by Raman spectroscopy; achieving homogeneously thin membranes, enabled by ion implantation; and providing compatibility with established planar fabrication via lithography and vertical etching. On such suspended diamond membranes we demonstrate a suite of photonic components as building blocks for nanophotonic circuits. Monolithic grating couplers are used to efficiently couple light between photonic circuits and optical fibers. In waveguide coupled optical ring resonators, we find loaded quality factors up to 66 0...

57 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed technical solutions to fabrication challenges associated with chip sealing and demolding of polymer high-volume replication methods by using UV-assisted thermal bonding to ensure a strong seal of the microstructures in the molded part.
Abstract: Microfabricated single-cell capture and DNA stretching devices have been produced by injection molding. The fabrication scheme employed deep reactive ion etching in a silicon substrate, electroplating in nickel and molding in cyclic olefin polymer. This work proposes technical solutions to fabrication challenges associated with chip sealing and demolding of polymer high-volume replication methods. UV-assisted thermal bonding was found to ensure a strong seal of the microstructures in the molded part without altering the geometry of the channels. In the DNA stretching device, a low aspect ratio nanoslit (1/200) connecting two larger micro-channels was used to stretch a 168.5 kbp DNA molecule, while in the other device single-HeLa cells were captured against a micro-aperture connecting two larger microfluidic channels. Different dry etching processes have been investigated for the master origination of the cell-capture device. The combination of a modified Bosch process and an isotropic polysilicon etch was found to ensure the ease of demolding by resulting in slightly positively tapered sidewalls with negligible undercut at the mask interface. (Some figures may appear in colour only in the online journal)

57 citations


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Performance
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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20241
20235,291
202210,627
2021845
2020805
2019944