Abstract: MEMS microphone packages and fabrication methods thereof are disclosed. One method for fabricating a MEMS microphone package, includes providing a substrate, forming a cavity enclosed by a top cover part, wherein a housing wall part surrounds and supports the top cover part, and the substrate supports the housing wall part and the cover part, forming a MEMS sensing element and an IC chip inside the cavity, forming an opening comprising an acoustic passage connecting the cavity to an ambient space, and forming a conductive casing enclosing the top cover part and the housing wall, wherein the conductive casing is soldered to a PCB board and is electrically connected to a common analog ground lead on the PCB board.
Abstract: A Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic RF (CMURF) pressure sensor is described. This micromachined pressure sensor has: pressure sensitive capacitance elements including a scalable array of micromachined cells of the type including electrodes carried by a sealed membrane supported above a common electrode with conductive lines interconnecting the electrodes having an electrostatic capacitance ?Cm changing with a pressure to be detected; reference capacitance elements including a scalable array of micromachined cells of the type including electrodes carried by a stacked of membranes supported above a common electrode with conductive lines interconnecting the electrodes having an electrostatic capacitance Cm not changing with the pressure. A method of operating a pressure sensor array is also described.