SAMPLE (Sandia agile MEMS prototyping layout tools and education)

摘要

Abstract: The SAMPLE (Sandia agile MEMS prototyping, layout tools, and education) service makes Sandia's state-of-the-art surface micromachining fabrication process, known as SUMMiT, available to U.S. industry for the first time. The service provides a short course and customized computer-aided design (CAD) tools to assist customers in designing micromachine prototypes to be fabricated in SUMMiT. Frequent small-scale manufacturing runs then provide SAMPLE designers with hundreds of sophisticated MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) chips. SUMMiT (Sandia ultra-planar, multi-level MEMS technology) offers unique surface-micromachining capabilities, including four levels of polycrystalline silicon (including the ground layer), flanged hubs, substrate contacts, one-micron design rules, and chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) planarization. This paper describes the SUMMiT process, design tools, and other information relevant to the SAMPLE service and SUMMiT process. !10