Enhancement of c-Axis Oriented Aluminum Nitride Films via Low Temperature DC Sputtering

Ze Hui Chen, Chengying Li, Yueh Han Chen, Shengyuan Chu, Cheng Che Tsai, Cheng Shong Hong

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Abstract

In this study, we successfully deposit c-axis oriented aluminum nitride (AlN) piezoelectric films at low temperature (100 °C) via the DC sputtering method with tilt gun. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) observations prove that the deposited films have a c-axis preferred orientation. Effective d33 value of the proposed films is 5.92 pm/V, which is better than most of the reported data using DC sputtering or other processing methods. It is found that the gun placed at 25° helped the films to rearrange at low temperature and c-axis orientation AlN films were successfully grown at 100 °C. This temperature is much lower than the reported growing temperature. It means the piezoelectric films can be deposited at flexible substrate and the photoresist can be stable at this temperature. The cantilever beam type microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) piezoelectric accelerometers are then fabricated based on the proposed AlN films with a lift-off process. The results show that the responsivity of the proposed devices is 8.12 mV/g, and the resonance frequency is 460 Hz, which indicates they can be used for machine tools.

Original languageEnglish
Article number9422823
Pages (from-to)17673-17677
Number of pages5
JournalIEEE Sensors Journal
Volume21
Issue number16
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021 Aug 15

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Instrumentation
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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