CAPACITIVE PRESSURE SENSORS AND OTHER DEVICES HAVING A SUSPENDED MEMBRANE AND HAVING ROUNDED CORNERS AT AN ANCHOR EDGE

Capacitive pressure sensors and other devices are disclosed. In an embodiment a semiconductor device includes a first electrode, a cavity over the first electrode and a second electrode including a suspended membrane over the cavity and electrically conductive anchor trenches laterally surrounding t...

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Hauptverfasser: BESLING, Willem Frederik Adrianus, VAN DER AVOORT, Cas, FAES, Alessandro, SIEGERT, Joerg, WUNNICKE, Olaf, PIJNENBURG, Remco Henricus Wilhelmus
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Sprache:eng ; fre ; ger
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Zusammenfassung:Capacitive pressure sensors and other devices are disclosed. In an embodiment a semiconductor device includes a first electrode, a cavity over the first electrode and a second electrode including a suspended membrane over the cavity and electrically conductive anchor trenches laterally surrounding the cavity, wherein the anchor trenches include an inner anchor trench and an outer anchor trench, the outer anchor trench having rounded corners.