Piezoresistive sensors for atomic force microscopy

oleh: Tomasz Dębski, Wolfgang Barth, Ivo W. Rangelow, Krzysztof Domański, Daniel Tomaszewski, Piotr Grabiec, Andrzej Jakubowski

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: National Institute of Telecommunications 2001-03-01

Deskripsi

An important element in microelectronics is the comparison of the modelling and measurements results of the real semiconductor devices. Our paper describes the final results of numerical simulation of a micromechanical process sequence of the atomic force microscopy (AFM) sensors. They were obtained using the virtual wafer fab (VWF) software, which is used in the Institute of Electron Technology (IET). The technology mentioned above is used for fabrication of the AFM cantilevers, which has been designed for measurement and characterization of the surface roughness, the texturing, the grain size and the hardness. The simulation are very useful in manufacturing other microcantilever sensors.