MEMS applications of Ball Semiconductor Technology
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Instead of using conventional flat and rectangular chip technology, our idea is to make semiconductor devices and sensors on 1mm-diameter spherical silicon (Ball) substrates. This paper describes five key enabling process technologies to realize Ball devices such as 3-axis accelerometer.
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