Fabrication of two-point-supported annular-type microresonators with capacitive transducer gaps

  • Sunao Murakami
  • , Mitsuo Konno
  • , Tsuyoshi Ikehara
  • , Ryutaro Maeda
  • , Takashi Mihara

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Abstract

Disk microresonators employing in-plane resonant modes are promising candidates as functional elements for high-sensitive mass sensing applications because they provide a high quality factor (Q) in air at atmospheric pressure. The authors have newly designed and fabricated single crystal silicon (SCS) annular micromechanical resonators with an inner to outer radius ratio of 0.17. The beam structures to support the resonator were connected to the two nodal points expected for a specified in-plane resonant mode. The resonator was electrostatically driven and detected with 150-nm-wide vertical transducer gaps that were fabricated by trench etching of the SCS using deep reactive ion etching (D-RIE) with a resist mask patterned by electron beam lithography. The fabricated resonators show a resonant peak at 50.10 MHz with a Q of 3000 in air. The measured peak resonant frequency agreed well with the frequency predicted by finite element simulations.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNEMS 2011 - 6th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems
Pages707-710
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event6th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems, NEMS 2011 - Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Province of China
Duration: 20 Feb 201123 Feb 2011

Publication series

NameNEMS 2011 - 6th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems

Conference

Conference6th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems, NEMS 2011
Country/TerritoryTaiwan, Province of China
CityKaohsiung
Period20/02/1123/02/11

Keywords

  • annular resonator
  • in-plane resonant mode
  • nodal point
  • resonant frequency
  • transducer gap

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