吳政忠臺灣大學：應用力學研究所黃國財Huang, Guo-TsaiGuo-TsaiHuang2007-11-292018-06-292007-11-292018-06-292004http://ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw//handle/246246/62553Accurate monitoring of the thickness and elastic properties of thin films with thickness in the sub-micrometer range is very important in the area of N/MEMS fabrication. In this thesis, we utilize a RF surface acoustic wave (SAW) device to measure the dispersion of SAW in a thin film deposited layered substrate first, and then, determine the elastic properties of the thin film inversely through an optimization algorithm. Firstly, we analyze the dispersion of SAW in a SiO2/YZ-LiNbO3 layered specimen and serve as the forward solution of the inverse evaluation. Secondly, a novel design of interdigital transducer pairs was proposed to measure the dispersion of SAW in such a layered specimen. To increase the bandwidth of the SAW device, slanted finger interdigital transducer (SFIT) was employed to generate wide band SAW signals. The SFIT was designed by using the coupling of modes method to ensure the best frequency response. Sub-micrometer thickness SiO2 thin films were deposited on the piezoelectric YZ-LiNbO3 substrate via the PECVD process. Pairs of the SFITs were then fabricated on the substrate. A network analyzer was used to measure the frequency response of the SFIT. The frequency responses were then processed using the spectral analysis to obtain the dispersion of SAW in such a layered specimen. With the forward solution and measured dispersion of the thin film deposited layered specimen, the elastic properties of the SiO2 layer can be reconstructed through the using of the simplex algorithm. Result of the inversion shows that the elastic properties of the sub-micrometer thin SiO2 film can be determined successfully. It is worth noting that results of this study can be employed to design an in-situ thin film thickness monitoring SAW sensor.Acknowledgements I Abstract II List of Notations III Table of Contents VIII List of Figures X List of Tables XII Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1-1 Research Motive…………………………………………………………. 1 1-2 Literature Review 2 1-3 Content of the Chapters 4 Chapter 2 Dispersion of SAW in Layered Piezoelectric Medium 6 2-1 Surface Acoustic Wave in a Layered Piezoelectric Medium 6 2-2 Impedance Tensor and Reflection Coefficient 12 2-3 Dispersion Equation 16 2-3.1 Half Space 16 2-3.2 Layered Structure 18 2-3.3 Effect of Thin Metal Layer on SAW Propagation 21 2-4 Dispersion of SAW in SiO2/YZ-LiNbO3 Layered Specimen 23 Chapter 3 Design and Fabrication of a Thin Film SAW Sensor 28 3-1 Design of a Thin Film SAW Sensor 28 3-2 Coupling-of-Mode Model Formulation 30 3-3 Design of SFIT SAW Devices 36 3-4 Fabrication of a Thin film SAW Sensor 37 Chapter 4 Measurement Results 57 4-1 Spectral Analysis of Surface Waves 57 4-2 Error Function and Simplex Method 59 4-3 Experimental Measurement 60 4-4 Inversion Results 62 4-4.1 Inversion of C11 and C44 of a thin SiO2 film 62 4-4.2 Inversion of ρ, C11 and C44 of a thin SiO2 film 63 4-4.3 Numerical Simulation of the Inversion Process of a thin SiO2 film 66 Chapter 5 Conclusions 83 References 85en-US薄膜彈性性質表面波頻散曲線斜交指叉式換能器表面波頻譜分析法微機電耦合模型理論薄膜感測器SFITdispersion of SAWCOM modelSpectral analysisThin film SAW sensorElastic properties of thin filmMEMSthesis