Vertical pressure sensitive structure
Embodiments related to pressure sensitive structures are described and depicted.
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Pressure sensitive devices such as pressure sensors, microphones, etc. are devices capable of transducing a pressure applied to a pressure sensitive membrane into a signal such as an electric signal or vice versa.
Pressure sensitive devices are nowadays provided small-sized on substrates such as semiconductor substrates. By utilizing the many processing techniques for semiconductor materials such as silicon, small-sized pressure sensitive devices can be formed which are capable of being applied in many application fields. Typical applications include for example the monitoring of pressure in industrial or automotive applications. One of many examples for such applications includes a tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) wherein the air pressure in tires of vehicles are sensed and reported to a control unit for determining and warning a driver when a low pressure condition occurs. Other applications include consumer or communication applications such as the transducing of speech by small-sized microphones in devices such as mobile phones, computers etc. or silicon loudspeakers provided in mobile phones etc.
BACKGROUNDAccording to one aspect, a method of manufacturing a pressure sensitive structure includes the generating of a plurality of trenches in a substrate, wherein adjacent trenches are separated from each other by a respective side-wall. After generating the plurality of trenches, material is removed to generate a cavity extending from a main surface of the substrate to at least one side-wall.
According to a further aspect, a method of manufacturing a pressure sensitive structure includes a generating of openings in a substrate, the openings extending from a first main surface vertically into the substrate, wherein a wall extending vertically into the substrate is formed between at least one pair of adjacent openings. Further material at a lateral side of a first opening of the at least one pair of openings is removed to laterally extend the first opening.
According to a further aspect, a device comprises at least one sealed opening extending from a main surface vertically into a substrate. The device includes a pressure membrane extending from the main surface vertically into the substrate and at least one further opening extending from the main surface of the substrate into the substrate to provide a pressure communication for the pressure membrane.
According to a further aspect, a pressure sensor includes at least one sealed opening extending vertical from a main surface of a semiconductor substrate into the semiconductor substrate, the at least one sealed opening being bounded on one side by a pressure sensitive wall. At least one pressure inlet is provided, the at least one pressure inlet extending from the pressure sensitive wall to the main surface from which the sealed opening extend into the substrate. The at least one pressure inlet is bound on an opposing side of the pressure sensitive wall by an inclined surface of the semiconductor substrate, the inclined surface being non-parallel to the pressure sensitive wall.
The following detailed description explains exemplary embodiments of the present invention. The description is not to be taken in a limiting sense, but is made only for the purpose of illustrating the general principles of embodiments of the invention while the scope of protection is only determined by the appended claims.
Furthermore, the drawings may not been drawn to scale and may be simplified or rescaled. For example, some elements may be shown in the drawing with different scaling than other elements in order to provide a better understanding of embodiments.
Further, it is to be understood that the features of the various exemplary embodiments described herein or elements described with respect to the various exemplary embodiments may be combined with each other, unless specifically noted otherwise.
In the various figures, identical or similar elements, entities, modules, devices etc. may have assigned the same reference number.
In the following description, a lateral direction may be a direction parallel to a main surface of the substrate. Furthermore, a vertical direction may be a direction perpendicular to each lateral direction, i.e. perpendicular to the main surface of the substrate.
The embodiments described below are directed to a new concept for manufacturing vertical pressure sensitive structures. Distinguished from other pressure sensitive structures, vertical pressure sensitive structures such as vertical pressure sensors, vertical microphones etc. have a pressure sensitive membrane (lamella) which extends in vertical direction. The pressure sensitive membrane is therefore capable to sense a force caused by a pressure difference between the surrounding atmosphere and a pressure chamber by a deflection of the pressure sensitive membrane in the lateral direction.
Embodiments described herein allow manufacturing vertical pressure sensitive structures with the pressure inlet and the pressure sensitive structures being located at and being etched from the same main surface. The pressure sensitive structures can thereby be formed inside of the substrate with reduced complexity and lower costs. In some embodiments the manufacturing process may be integrated into a CMOS or BiCMOS process allowing manufacturing integrated circuits with integrated pressure sensitive elements.
The trench openings 102A and 102B are formed in the substrate 100 by removing material from the first main surface 100a of the substrate. The trench openings are separated from each other in a lateral direction (x-direction) and extend in a vertical direction (z-direction). In embodiments, the trench openings 102A, 102B are cavities which extend in the vertical direction into the substrate by at least a distance exceeding the minimum lateral dimension. For example it can be observed from
The opposing surfaces of the trench openings may in some embodiments be parallel to each other. In some embodiments, the opposing surfaces are parallel to the vertical direction. Trench openings being parallel to each other may also include examples in which the trench openings are roughly parallel. Likewise, opposing surfaces being parallel to the vertical direction may also include examples in which the opposing surfaces are only roughly parallel to the vertical direction. The trench openings 102A and 102B may be formed by etching through a hard mask or photo mask vertically into the inner substrate as is known in the art of semiconductor manufacturing. In some embodiments, the trench etching may utilize deep trench etching techniques. In some embodiments, the trench openings 102A, 102B may have an aspect ratio (ratio between z-dimension and x-dimension) which lies between 1:5 and 1:100. In some embodiments the aspect ratio may be between 1:50 and 1:80. In some embodiments, the lateral width of the trench openings 102A, 102B is in the range between 100 nm and 1000 nm. In some embodiments, the vertical width (depth) of the trench openings 102A, 102B are in the range between 3 μm (microns) 50 μm. The extension in one lateral direction (y-axis) may in some embodiments exceed the extension in another lateral direction at least by a factor of 5. In other words, in some embodiments, the ratio of the maximum lateral extension and the minimum lateral extension may be at least 5. The trench openings 102A, 102B may extend along the y-axis for a distance which is in some embodiments longer than the vertical extension of the trench openings 102A, 102B. The y-axis direction may be the direction of maximum lateral extension of the trench openings 102A, 102B and the vertical extension of the trench openings 102A, 102B may therefore be smaller than the maximum lateral extension of the trench openings 102A, 102B. The dimension of the trench openings 102A, 102B in y-axis direction may however in some embodiments be smaller than the vertical dimension. In some embodiments, the trench openings 102A, 102B may extend along a straight line in the y-direction. In some embodiments, the trenches 102A, 102B may be bended or rounded along the y-direction or non-uniform or non-perpendicular. In some embodiments, each of the trenches 102A, 102B may be, when seen from a top-view, line-shaped, circular, rectangular, square-shaped, ring-shaped or spiral-shaped. However, other embodiments may include other geometrical shapes.
Between the trench openings 102A and 102B, the remaining material of the substrate forms a wall 104. The wall 104 provides for the pressure sensitive structure a flexible membrane which may be used for sensing or transducing the pressure based on a deflection of the flexible membrane. The wall 104 has in some embodiments a lateral extension between 50 nm and 3000 nm. In some embodiments the lateral extension of the wall 104 may be between 200 nm and 400 nm.
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After sealing the trench openings 102A, 102B, a first hard mask 110 is generated on the first main surface 100a. The first hard mask 110 has a mask opening 110a which defines the starting of a later applied first etching. The mask opening 110a may have in some embodiments a width (in the x-direction) between 0.1 μm and 2 μm. In some embodiments, the width of the mask opening 110a is about 1 μm. The lateral distance in x-direction between the trench opening 102A and the mask opening 110a of the first hard mask 110 may be between 0 and 2 μm XXX and YYY μm. In some embodiments, the mask opening 110a may extend above the sealing material 108. In other words, the opening 110a extends in this embodiment at least partially over the trench opening 102A.
In addition to the first mask, a second mask 112 is generated above the first hard mask 110 for providing a mask for a later applied second etching process.
It is to be understood that in some embodiments other semiconductor processes may be applied between each of the above described process steps. For example, after sealing the trench openings semiconductor process steps such as MOS or BiCMOS process steps may be applied in other areas of the substrate to generate integrated circuits including circuit elements such as MOS transistors, bipolar transistors or other active of passive integrated circuit components. The manufacturing and sealing of the trench openings 102A, 102B may therefore in some embodiments be provided during or prior to a Front-End-Of-Line (FEOL) process. The sealing of the trench openings 102A and 102B allows the applying of process steps of the FEOL process after the forming of the trench openings without adversely affecting the trench opening. For example, by sealing the trench openings, processing steps which are performed at higher temperatures can be applied after the forming of the trench openings. This allows for the integrating of the manufacturing of the pressure sensitive structure with other integrated circuit components by utilizing a CMOS or BiCMOS process, for example to achieve a pressure sensitive device with an integrated circuit for processing the sensor signals directly on the same chip. In some embodiments, the second hard mask 112 may be a mask containing material applied during a back-end-of-line (BEOL) process. FEOL typically refers to the first portion of an Integrated Circuit (IC) fabrication where the individual circuit elements such as transistors, resistors, capacitors etc. are patterned and which typically covers everything up to, but not including, the deposition of metal interconnect layers. BEOL typically refers to the second portion of IC fabrication where the various metal layers interposed by insulation layers are formed for interconnecting the circuit elements.
In some embodiments, the second hard mask 112 is formed by a structured portion of the BEOL staple having metal layers with interposed insulating layers.
The second hard mask 112 is formed to have a mask opening 112a defining the area at which the etching agent of a second etching is allowed to penetrate into the substrate. In embodiments, the area defined by the mask opening 112a includes the area defined by the mask opening 110a, when seen from a top view. In some embodiments, the area of the second mask 112 defines the pressure inlet area at main surface level as will be described below in more detail.
After having formed the first and second hard masks 110, 112, a first etching is applied to remove the substrate material lateral of the trench opening 102A. The trench opening 102A is thereby laterally extended to a cavity 102A′. The first etching may be a wet etching such as an etching with KOH-etching agent or a dry etching such as an ion reactive etching or a combination of wet and dry etching. The etching utilizes the first hard mask 110 with the mask opening 110a for defining the etching areas. In some embodiments, the first etching is an anisotropic etching which allows to obtain an inclined surface for the extended opening, i.e. a surface not perpendicular to the substrate main surface, as will be shown later with respect to
In embodiments, the cavity extends due to the first etching by an amount between 3 and 50 μm, i.e. substantially to the same extend as the vertical extension of the trenches 102A, 102B.
In some embodiments, the first etching is selective with respect to the material of the coating layer 106A. In other words, the etching agent for the first selective etching has an etching rate which is significantly higher for the substrate material (which in some embodiments may be silicon) than for the material of the coating layer 106A. In some embodiments, a KOH etching may be used which can be controlled by determining a concentration rate and an etching time.
In view of the selectivity, the first etching stops at one lateral side at the coating layer 106A which had been applied at the inner surface of the trench opening 102A. In the substrate 100, the first etching provides as a result of a non-bounded etching a surface 114 for the extended trench opening 102A′. In other words, the surface 114 is not defined by stopping on a previously provided etch stop layer but is mainly defined by the etching time and the specific etching characteristics. In the described embodiment, the second etching has therefore a stop layer only at the lateral side defined by the coating layer 106A while the etching is not stopping at a particular layer on the opposing side.
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In a next step, the coating layer 106A and the sealing material 108 which had sealed the trench opening 102A are removed by a second etching. The second etching is defined by the opening 112A of the second mask 112. In some embodiments, the second etching is a selective etching with a substantial higher etching rate for the material of the first hard mask 110 than for the substrate material.
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Instead of providing the hard mask 112 extending to cover the trench opening 102A and the wall 104, the first hard mask 110 may be provided in some embodiments to be thicker at least in the region of the trench opening 102A and the wall 104 compared to the thickness of the hard mask in other regions. Furthermore, in some embodiments, an additional protection layer may be provided above at least the trench opening 102A and the wall 104 instead of the hard mask 112. This may for example be obtained after the forming of the second hard mask 112 by depositing the additional layer in the region including the trench opening 102A and the wall 104.
After the second etching is completed, in some embodiments, the first hard mask 110 and the second hard mask 112 both remain, i.e. both are not removed in later manufacturing processes.
The pressure sensitive structure may therefore include the first hard mask 110 and the second hard mask 112 as shown in
Furthermore, in view of the surface 114 of the cavity forming the pressure inlet being non-rectangular with respect to the main surface, the wall 104 and the inclined surface 114 being the lateral side walls of the inlet are provided non-parallel to each other, for example with an inclination angle in the range between 40° and 70°. In an embodiment, the inclination angle is about 55° corresponding to the inclination of the silicon 111 plane.
The pressure inlet therefore has lateral surfaces which are not parallel but are inclined to each other. This allows liquids such as water droplets to escape more easily from the cavity forming the pressure inlet compared to other shapes of the inlet such as rectangular shapes. In such embodiments, the shape of the inlet being the result of the etching process and being defined by the etching process can be synergistically used to provide a pressure sensitive structure which is more robust against environmental influences such as liquids and moisture.
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In some embodiments, the electrodes of the pressure sensitive structure are formed by the wall 104 acting as a first deflectable electrode and the substrate material lateral to the trench opening 102A acting as a counter electrode. As both electrodes are formed in such embodiments mainly of material of the substrate, the substrate material may be provided to be an electrical conducting material such as for example crystalline silicon. P-doping and n-doping regions may be provided to form p-n junctions isolating the wall 104 from the counter electrode. The pressure may in some embodiments be sensed by sensing a change of the capacitance caused by a deflection of the deflectable electrode. Such sensing may be provided for example by applying an AC signal to the electrodes. Other sensing techniques known to persons skilled in the art may be further be used to detect the deflection of the deflectable electrode.
A flow diagram 200 of a basic manufacturing process for producing a pressure sensitive device according to embodiments will now be explained with respect to
The flow diagram 200 starts at 210 with the generating of a plurality of trench openings in a substrate such that adjacent trench openings are separated from each other by a wall. As outlined above, the trench openings may in some embodiments include deep trench opening. Then, the trench openings are sealed at 220.
At 230, substrate material is removed to generate a cavity extending from the main surface of the substrate to the wall. The thus generated cavity provides an inlet for the pressure sensitive device such that the pressure of the environment is present at the pressure sensitive wall.
It is to be noted that in the above process the trench openings may be etched from the same main surface side to which the inlet extends in order to provide communication with outside pressure. Compared to etching the inlet from the main surface of the backside, the above described process allows a less complex and cost-effective manufacturing. The sealing allows protecting the sensitive areas such that other manufacturing steps may be applied after forming the trenches. The above process can be integrated into a BiCMOS or CMOS process wherein the active elements are formed at the same main surface side. After the BiCMOS or CMOS process, at least one trench opening is extended by the removing of substrate material lateral to the trench opening to form the cavity providing for the pressure inlet. By having the trench openings sealed and then removing material to extend at least one trench opening to form the pressure inlet, the pressure inlet formed thereby is protected from the influence of any process steps such as BiCMOS process steps which may be performed between the sealing of the trenches and the extension of the trench opening. In some embodiments, FEOL process steps and BEOL process steps may be performed between the sealing and the extension of the trench opening. As already outlined, in such embodiments, the BEOL stack can be used as a mask for one of the etching steps.
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The sealed trench 102C forms a reference chamber allowing establishing a reference element which is not sensitive to the environment pressure, i.e. the pressure to be sensed. In some embodiments, a reference element and a pressure sensitive element may be connected in a circuit, for example in a half bridge of the Wheatstone type or in a full bridge of the Wheatstone type. This allows eliminating effects on the pressure sensor signal caused for example by a temperature change. Furthermore, with the above described manufacturing, the reference elements and the two pressure sensitive elements can be obtained very dense on a semiconductor chip which results in reduced chip area.
In view of the increased thickness of the first hard mask 110, a part of the first hard mask 110 remains above the walls after the second etching. The remaining part of the first hard mask 110 allows providing additional protection against environmental effects and harmful agents.
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In general, the lateral extension of the cavity resulting from the removing of material lateral to the trench openings can be controlled by the size of the mask openings and the etching techniques used.
In the embodiment of
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Furthermore, in view of the lateral extended mask openings 110A, 110B, the respective maximum lateral extension of the cavities 102A′, 102E′ obtained at the main surface level exceeds the respective maximum lateral extension of the cavities 102A′ and 102E′ obtained in the embodiment of
A further embodiment using one hard mask layer for removing material lateral to the initially formed trenches and removing at least a part of the trench opening walls to form the inlet will now be described with respect to
The process starts with the forming of the trench openings 102A to 102E in the substrate 100 as shown in
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Similar to the previously described embodiments, the first etching is a selective etching which removes the substrate materials while it stops at the layers 106A and 106E and the sealing material portions 108A and 108E of the outermost trenches, see
In a second selective etching, the free-standing portions of the layers 106A, 106E are removed together with the corresponding sealing material portion 108A, 108E.
Referring now to
In the above described embodiment, the layers 106A to 106E may have a same material as the material used for sealing the trenches which allows the same etching rates in the first etching for the layers 106A and 108E and the sealing material portions 108A and 108E. However, any materials may be used for the trench sealing portions 108A to 108E and the layers 106A to 106E which allow a selective removal of this material by using the hard mask 510. In one embodiment, the material may for example include an oxide material such as silicon oxide. The mask layer 510 may then for example be comprised of nitride material which allows removing the silicon substrate material in the first selective etching and the silicon oxide material in the second selective etching by using the mask layer 510 as hard mask. It is to be noted that the second selective etching may to a lesser extend also remove further substrate material although this is not shown in detail in
It is to be noted that the above described embodiment may be modified in many ways. For example, the process may be modified to include an extension of the bottom part during the first etching similar to the embodiment shown in
Furthermore, although the embodiments shown describe the usage of an anisotropic etching, other embodiments may include the usage of isotropic etching steps for the first and/or the second selective etchings.
In the above description, embodiments have been shown and described herein enabling those skilled in the art in sufficient detail to practice the teachings disclosed herein. Other embodiments may be utilized and derived there from, such that structural and logical substitutions and changes may be made without departing from the scope of this disclosure.
This Detailed Description, therefore, is not to be taken in a limiting sense, and the scope of various embodiments is defined only by the appended claims, along with the full range of equivalents to which such claims are entitled.
Such embodiments of the inventive subject matter may be referred to herein, individually and/or collectively, by the term “invention” merely for convenience and without intending to voluntarily limit the scope of this application to any single invention or inventive concept if more than one is in fact disclosed. Thus, although specific embodiments have been illustrated and described herein, it should be appreciated that any arrangement calculated to achieve the same purpose may be substituted for the specific embodiments shown. This disclosure is intended to cover any and all adaptations or variations of various embodiments. Combinations of the above embodiments, and other embodiments not specifically described herein, will be apparent to those of skill in the art upon reviewing the above description.
It is further to be noted that specific terms used in the description and claims may be interpreted in a very broad sense. For example, the terms “circuit” or “circuitry” used herein are to be interpreted in a sense not only including hardware but also software, firmware or any combinations thereof.
It is further to be noted that embodiments described in combination with specific entities may in addition to an implementation in these entity also include one or more implementations in one or more sub-entities or sub-divisions of said described entity.
The accompanying drawings that form a part hereof show by way of illustration, and not of limitation, specific embodiments in which the subject matter may be practiced.
In the foregoing Detailed Description, it can be seen that various features are grouped together in a single embodiment for the purpose of streamlining the disclosure. This method of disclosure is not to be interpreted as reflecting an intention that the claimed embodiments require more features than are expressly recited in each claim. Rather, as the following claims reflect, inventive subject matter lies in less than all features of a single disclosed embodiment. Thus the following claims are hereby incorporated into the Detailed Description, where each claim may stand on its own as a separate embodiment. While each claim may stand on its own as a separate embodiment, it is to be noted that—although a dependent claim may refer in the claims to a specific combination with one or more other claims—other embodiments may also include a combination of the dependent claim with the subject matter of each other dependent claim or a combination of each feature with other dependent or independent claims. Such combinations are proposed herein unless it is stated that a specific combination is not intended. Furthermore, it is intended to include also features of a claim to any other independent claim even if this claim is not directly made dependent to the independent claim.
It is further to be noted that methods disclosed in the specification or in the claims may be implemented by a device having means for performing each of the respective steps of these methods.
Further, it is to be understood that the disclosure of multiple steps or functions disclosed in the specification or claims may not be construed as to be within the specific order. Therefore, the disclosure of multiple steps or functions will not limit these to a particular order unless such steps or functions are not interchangeable for technical reasons.
Furthermore, in some embodiments a single step may include or may be broken into multiple sub steps. Such sub steps may be included and part of the disclosure of this single step unless explicitly excluded.
Claims
1. A method of manufacturing a pressure sensitive structure comprising:
- generating a plurality of trenches in a substrate, wherein adjacent trenches are separated from each other by a respective side-wall, wherein generating the plurality of trenches comprises:
- etching trench openings;
- forming a coating layer on a surface of each respective trench opening,
- wherein the coating layer comprises material different from a material of the substrate; and
- sealing the respective trench opening;
- after generating the plurality of trenches, removing material to generate a cavity extending from a main surface of the substrate to at least one side-wall,
- wherein removing material comprises:
- applying a first selective etching with a higher etching rate for the material of the substrate compared to the material of the coating layer to allow a stopping of the first selective etching on the coating layer of said at least one side-wall; and
- applying a second etching, the second etching removing at least partially the coating layer of at least one of the plurality of trenches.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first selective etching and the second etching includes at least one of a dry etching step or a wet etching step.
3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the first selective etching and the second etching are applied to remove material from a same main surface of the substrate.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the second etching is a selective etching with a higher etching rate for the material of the coating layer compared to the material of the substrate.
5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:
- forming a mask for the first etching on said main surface, wherein the mask includes at least one mask opening such that an etching agent of the first etching penetrates during the first etching through the mask opening to the substrate material.
6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first selective etching is an anisotropic etching.
7. A method of manufacturing a pressure sensitive structure, the method comprising;
- generating openings in a substrate, the openings extending from a first main surface vertically into the substrate, wherein a wall extending vertically into the substrate is formed between at least one pair of adjacent openings, wherein said generating of the openings in the substrate comprises an etching of openings and generating a layer on an inner surface of the openings;
- removing of further material at a lateral side of a first opening of the at least one pair of openings to laterally extend the first opening,
- wherein said removing of further material comprises a first and second selective etching, the first selective etching removing material of the substrate and stopping on the layer covering the inner surface of the first opening and the second selective etching removing at least a part of the layer covering the inner surface of the first opening.
8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the removing of further material comprises an etching process wherein an etching agent penetrates to the material of the substrate from the first main surface of the substrate.
9. The method according to claim 8, further comprising sealing the openings after the generating of the openings.
10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the wall forms a pressure sensitive membrane and the extended first opening is capable to provide a pressure exchange with a surrounding atmosphere.
11. The method according to claim 7, wherein said removing of further material comprises an etching of material of the substrate, wherein the etching is stopping on a coating of a side wall of the first opening.
12. The method according to claim 7, wherein a lateral dimension of the first opening at a main surface level is increased by said removing of the further material of the substrate.
13. The method according to claim 12, wherein a lateral dimension at a bottom level of the first opening is increased by said removing of further material of the substrate.
14. The method according to claim 7, wherein at least one further opening of the openings forms a cavity for a reference pressure.
15. The method according to claim 7, wherein the openings are generated prior to or during a Front-end-of-line manufacturing and the further material is removed during or after a Back-end-of-line manufacturing.
16. The method according to claim 7, wherein the first and second selective etchings are applied after a Back-end-of-line process, wherein at least a part of layers deposited during the Back-end-of line process forms a hard mask for at least one etching.
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Type: Grant
Filed: Feb 8, 2012
Date of Patent: Feb 9, 2016
Patent Publication Number: 20130199301
Assignee: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG (Neubiberg)
Inventor: Thoralf Kautzsch (Dresden)
Primary Examiner: Peter Macchiarolo
Assistant Examiner: Jermaine Jenkins
Application Number: 13/368,370
International Classification: G01L 9/00 (20060101); G01L 9/16 (20060101); H01S 4/00 (20060101); B81C 1/00 (20060101);