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Chang Auck Choi - IEEE Xplore Author Profile

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This paper presents a simple and low-cost flip chip bumping method with vertical feedthroughs for MEMS WLCSP. The vertical feedthroughs are fabricated on glass wafer using sand-blasting, and these provide inherent aligning jig for micro-ball arrangement. The experimental evaluations using MEMS accelerometer are also presented. The proposed method can be a more cost-effective solution by eliminatin...Show More
We have studied on the sputtered silicon antimony thin film for bolometric materials of mid-IR range application. In order to obtain high detectivity of infrared sensors, the infrared detection materials which have been using today as a resistor must have a high temperature coefficient of resistance (TCR) and low noise. We fabricated silicon films and their alloy films by sputtering and plasma-enh...Show More
In this paper, we present a novel sensitivity tunable capacitive type micro accelerometer which could adjust its sensitivity. The previous bulk-micromachined accelerometer is hard to make a pattern which is smaller than 1um with high aspect ratio because of ICP etching errors such as loading effect and footing. In this paper, by making movable ground electrodes which have MEMS actuators, we presen...Show More
Gold nanoparticles functionalized with methyl 3-mercaptopropionate (MMP) were synthesized and used as sensor materials to detect acetic acid in the sub-ppm range. The success of the MMP gold nanoparticles was confirmed by high resolution TEM and FTIR. The average diameter was characterized by TEM to be 3.1 nm. Transducer film was formed on a glass or a silicon substrate mounted with interdigitated...Show More
A monolithic electronic nose system, which has 12 independent channels, was fabricated by post CMOS micromachining process. Read-out integrated circuits were fabricated with the standard CMOS processes with design rule of 0.8 mum. And, the MEMS parts of the electronic nose were fabricated by hybrid etching, composed of bulk micromachining with TMAH (tetramethy lammonium hydroxide) and deep dry etc...Show More
A low-loss single-pole six-throw (SP6T) switch using very compact metal-contact RF microelectromechanical system (MEMS) series switches is presented. The metal-contact MEMS switch has an extremely compact active area of 0.4 mm /spl times/ 0.3 mm, thus permitting the formation of an SP6T MEMS switch into the RF switch with a total area of 1 mm/sup 2/. The MEMS switch shows an effective spring const...Show More
A single-pole 6-throw (SP6T) antenna switch using metal-contact RF micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) series switches has been developed for multi-band applications. The fabricated metal-contact MEMS switch with a broad signal line gap of 140 /spl mu/m shows a very high isolation loss of -51 dB at 2 GHz because its center-wedge (CW) can control a membrane stiction problem due to the anchor rol...Show More
A novel method for systematic variation of chemical selectivity is introduced using mixed-ligand gold nanoparticles. We have shown that altering the composition of ligand molecules attached on the nanoparticle surface affected interaction of the nanoparticle sensors with the analyte vapors. A gold nanoparticle flinctionalized with 4-methylbenzenethiol (4-MBT, -SC/sub 6/H/sub 4/CH/sub 3/) was synth...Show More
This paper described a novel wafer-level fabrication of polymer microsensors on the injection-molded thin polymer membrane with integrated heat control by conventional semiconductor processing techniques including standard photolithographic methods. A COC 5-in. wafer (1 mm thickness) is fabricated using injection molding method, in which polymer membranes (ca. 130 /spl mu/m thick and 3 mm /spl tim...Show More
A novel π small-signal model of MEMS series switches is presented based on a parameter-extraction method, which can determine a fringing capacitance (C_f) in the end of each signal line as well as a contact resistance (R_c). For an on-state modeling, the average error of S₁₁ for the π model is 5.1% in the range of 5~35 GHz, whereas that of the conventional model of two-port series-impedance withou...Show More
A novel center-anchor MEMS series switch is presented in this paper. A signal-line gap of 270 um, which is two or more times broader than that of a conventional MEMS switch, is achieved, constituting a substantial improvement of the isolation characteristic. This is attributed to the formation of a broad gap by the centeranchor, which sufficiently limits off-state coupling. The measured isolation ...Show More
For the fabrication of MEMS(micro electro mechanical system) devices such as HAR(high-aspect-ratio) microstructures with an extreme deep trench, a novel lithography method was newly developed in this study. In the case of the deep trench, the liquid photoresist is not or very thinly coated at edge parts of the trench boundary. And, if a very thick resist coated, it is nearly impossible to develop ...Show More
A self-aligned vertical comb-drive actuator fabricated using surface micromachining is presented. One- and two-axis tilt scanning micromirrors with the actuators were fabricated and tested. A mechanical tilt angle of /spl plusmn/1.4/spl deg/ at 66 V/sub DC/ was achieved for a 1-mm-diameter micromirror.Show More
One of the key components for the WDM optical communication is a wavelength tunable filter. The packaging technology of the tunable filter with Fabry-Perot cavity based on optical MEMS is investigated for the low power consumption and mass production. The flip chip process with Au-20(wt.%)Sn solder was conducted to integrate two DBR mirrors in parallel with a constant distance for the simple desig...Show More
We designed and fabricated the silicon micromachined flexural plate wave actuator based on piezoelectric PbZrxTi1-xO3 (PZT) thin films for use in angular rate sensor. The working principles of the angular rate sensor utilizing the wave were investigated.Show More