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11-13 <br />

May 2011, Aix-en-Provence, France<br />

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Fig.12. A typical design of MEMS DC sensor consisted of ten beam-type PZT<br />

plate array for further verification.<br />

VI.<br />

MICROFABRICATION OF PROTOTYPE MEMS-SCALE DC<br />

SENSOR DEVICES<br />

As shown in Fig. 13, the prototype devices are fabricated<br />

from multilayer of Pt/Ti/PZT/Pt/Ti/SiO 2 deposited on<br />

silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers using a 5-mask<br />

micromachining process [8][9]. Deposition of the multilayer is<br />

started from thermal oxidation of SOI wafers followed by Pt/Ti<br />

bottom electrodes deposition. After (100)-oriented PZT thin<br />

film is deposited by a sol-gel process [10], Pt/Ti top electrodes<br />

are then sputtered.<br />

The etching process is as follows. Pt/Ti top electrodes are<br />

first etched by an Ar ion through mask No.1. PZT thin films are<br />

then wet-etched with an aqueous solution of HF, HNO 3 , and<br />

HCl through mask No.2. After Pt/Ti bottom electrodes are<br />

etched by an Ar ion through mask No.3, both the thermal SiO 2 ,<br />

structural Si and buried oxide (BOX) are etched by RIE with<br />

CHF 3 gas (SiO 2 ) and SF 6 gas (Si) through (mask No.4). Finally,<br />

the substrate Si is etched from the backside to release the<br />

cantilever through mask No.5.<br />

Fig. 14 shows the fabricated MEMS DC sensor device. It<br />

can be noted that the cantilever are warped due to the BOX<br />

layer remained on the backside.<br />

Fig.13. Schematic diagram of the fabrication process chart. (a)<br />

Pt/Ti/PZT/Pt/Ti/SiO2 deposition, (b) Pt/Ti/PZT/Pt/Ti/SiO2 etching, (c)<br />

cantilever patterning, (d) substrate etching from backside to release cantilever.<br />

Fig. 14. The optical micrograph (Top view) of the fabricated MEMS DC sensor<br />

device.<br />

VII. CONCLUSIONS<br />

A non-drive, non-contact prototype MEMS-scale DC<br />

electric current sensor has been theoretically studied,<br />

geometrically designed and preliminarily fabricated for a<br />

measurement range of 0.04 A to 10 A. It would be effective to<br />

simultaneously increase number of PZT plates and narrow both<br />

electrode width and space between neighboring PZT plates by<br />

micromachining to achieve a high output voltage DC sensor.<br />

Based on a handmade macro-scale prototype DC sensor, we<br />

also succeeded in detecting out the impulsive values of the<br />

output voltage for a current range of 0.5 A to 3 A for the first<br />

time.<br />

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT<br />

Part of this work was supported by MEMS Inter University<br />

Network and performed in the Ubiquitous MEMS & Micro<br />

Engineering Research Center (UMEMSME) of National<br />

Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology<br />

(AIST).<br />

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