Acoustic micro-sensors have already been applied in mass sensing including surface acoustic wave (SAW), flexural plate wave (FPW), thickness shear mode (TSM) and shear horizontal acoustic plate mode (SH-APM). The FPW micro-sensor is very suitable for liquid-sensing and bio-sensing applications due to the high mass-sensitivity and low phase-velocity in liquid. However, the conventional FPW micro-sensors presented a high insertion-loss (IL) and a low signal-to-noise ratio so it is difficult to combine with IC into a micro-system.
To overcome these drawbacks, this study combine the Microelectromechanical System (MEMS) technology and the high C-axis orientation ZnO piezoelectric thin-film to develop a low insertion loss, low operation frequency, and high electromechanical coupling coefficient FPW device. In this study, a high C-axis orientation ZnO piezoelectric thin-film with a 20944A.U. X-Ray diffraction intensity at 34.200 degree and a 0.573 degree full width at half maximum (FWHM) was deposited by a commercial magnetic radio-frequency (RF) sputter system. The total processes of the FPW micro-sensor included five photolithography and seven thin-film depositions. In this study a low operation frequency (0.1MHz), low insertion loss (11dB to 14dB) and high electromechanical coupling coefficient (11%) FPW sensor was developed and fabricated.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0902110-165350 |
| Date | 02 September 2010 |
| Creators | -Hung Chen, Yu |
| Contributors | Ruey-Shing Huang, I-Yu Huang, Yu-Cheng Lin, Ching-Hsing Luo |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0902110-165350 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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