Method of manufacturing MEMS device and MEMS device
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsYoshiki Sugawara, Takeshi Yasoshima, Miyuki Muramoto
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Abstract
Provided is a method of manufacturing a MEMS device including forming, in a metal layer, an opening that enables a first space and a second space to communicate with each other by exposing the metal layer to an etching solution in a state where the metal layer is left at a boundary between the first space and the second space, and covering an inner surface of an opening of each of an adhesive layer and the metal layer by forming a protective layer from an inner surface of the first space to an inner surface of the second space after the opening of the metal layer is formed.
Claims9
A MEMS device in which a first member, on which a metal layer is stacked and in which a first space is formed, and a second member, in which a second space communicating with the first space is formed, are joined via an adhesive layer, comprising:
- a first opening formed in a communication portion of the first space that enables communication with the second space;
- a second opening formed in a communication portion of the second space that enables communication with the first space;
- a third opening formed in the metal layer in a communication portion between the first space and the second space to enable the first space and the second space to communicate with each other;
- a fourth opening formed in the adhesive layer in a communication portion between the first space and the second space to enable the first space and the second space to communicate with each other;
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- a protective layer covering an inner surface of each of the first opening, the second opening, the third opening, and the fourth opening,
- wherein an opening width of the third opening in one direction is wider than an opening width of the first opening in the one direction and an opening width of the second opening in the one direction, and an opening width of the fourth opening in the one direction is narrower than the opening width of the first opening in the one direction and the opening width of the second opening in the one direction,
- wherein the third opening is partially formed by a gap formed between the metal layer and the adhesive layer, and
- wherein an amount of the protective layer disposed in the gap is thicker than an amount of the protective layer not disposed in the gap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.