A new processing
technique to realize an extremely long cantilever
structure having a length of a few mm using a silicon-on-insulator(SOI)
wafer has been developed. By adding only one Si
selective wet etching process after the usual HF
sacrificial layer etching, the detachment length
of a cantilever became at least 10 times longer
than that formed using conventional method. This
technique is easily applicable to the fabrication
of various SOI-MEMS without the use of any special
apparatus.
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