Testing silicon MEMS structures subjected to thermal loading by digital holography

Anno: 2004

Autori: Ferraro P., De Nicola S., Coppola G., Finizio A., Iodice M., Magro C., Pierattini G.

Affiliazione autori: Istituto per la Microelettronica e Microsistemi del CNR Via P. Castellino 111, 80131 Napoli, Italy; Istituto di Cibernetica del CNR,”E. Caianiello”, Via Campi Flegrei 34, Pozzuoli, Italy; STMicroelectronics Stradale Primosole, 50, 95121 Catania, Italy

Abstract: We have applied digital holography (DH) as interferometric tool for measuring the out of plane deformation of Micro-Electro-Mechanical structures. DH has been adopted as method for determining with high accuracy deformations due to the residual stress introduced by fabrication process evaluating MEMS behavior subjected to thermal load. A thermal characterization of these structures requires to cope two fundamental problems. The first one regards the loss of the focus due to thermal expansion of the MEMS sample support. With an out-of-focus image, a correct reconstruction of the sample image can not be obtained. To overcome the problem an auto-tracking procedure has been adopted. The other problem regards the direct comparison of images reconstructed at two different distances. In fact, in DH the numerical reconstruction image is enlarged or contracted according to the reconstruction distance. To avoid this problem, we have adopted a novel but very simple method for keeping constant the image size by imposing the reconstruction pixel constant through the fictitious enlargement of the number of the pixel of the recorded digital holograms.

Giornale/Rivista: PROCEEDINGS OF SPIE

Volume: 5343      Da Pagina: 235  A: 243

Parole chiavi: MEMS; residual stress; thermal load; auto-focusing; phase-maps direct subtraction
DOI: 10.1117/12.524441

Citazioni: 5
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