CMOS BEOL-embedded z-axis accelerometer
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ELECT A first reported complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS)integrated acceleration sensor obtained through isotropic inter-metal dielectric (IMD) etching of a back-end-of-line (BEOL) integrated circuit interconnection stack, without any additional substrate etching steps, is presented. The mechanical device composed of a CMOSprocess 8 μm-thick metal-via-metal stack of 135 μm diameter and suspended 2.5 μm over a bottom fixed electrode, has a resonance frequency of 20 kHz, a sensing capacitance of 50 fF with sensitivity 14 aF/G and it is integrated on the same substrate with a simple lownoise amplifier reaching 25 mG of RMS noise measured from 0.25 to 100 Hz bandwidth.
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