Journal
MRS BULLETIN
Volume 28, Issue 1, Pages 55-59Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1557/mrs2003.18
Keywords
infrared microbolometers; microelectromechanical systems (MEMS); microelectronics packaging and integration; wafer-level vacuum packaging
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Vacuum packaging of high-performance surface-micromachined uncooled microbolometer detectors and focal-plane arrays (FPAs) for infrared imaging and nonimaging applications, inertial MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) accelerometers and gyroscopes, and rf MEMS resonators is a key issue in the technology development path to low-cost, high-volume MEMS production. In this article, two approaches to vacuum packaging for MEMS will be discussed. The first is component-level vacuum packaging, a die-level approach that involves packaging individual die in a ceramic package using either a silicon or germanium lid. The second approach is wafer-level vacuum packaging, in which the vacuum-packaging process is carried out at the wafer level prior to dicing the wafer into individual die. We focus the discussion of MEMS vacuum packaging on surface-micromachined uncooled amorphous silicon infrared microbolometer detectors and FPAs for which both component-level and wafer-level vacuum packaging have found widespread application and system insertion. We first discuss the requirement for vacuum packaging of uncooled a-Si microbolometers and FPAs. Second, we discuss the details of the component-level and wafer-level vacuum packaging approaches. Finally, we discuss the system insertion of water-level vacuum packaging into the Raytheon 2000AS uncooled infrared imaging camera product line that employs a wafer-level packaged 160 X 120 pixel a-Si infrared FPA.
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