Technology development for micromirror arrays with high optical fill factor and stable analogue deflection integrated on CMOS substrates

At Fraunhofer IPMS Dresden micromechanical mirror arrays are developed and fabricated using a high-voltage CMOS process for applications such as lithographic mask writers and adaptive optics. Different approaches for the fabrication of micromechanical mirror arrays with up to 1 million analogue addressable pixels in a MEMS-on-CMOS technology are discussed: sacrificial layer technologies of 1-level actuators made from a single Al-TiAl-Al structural multilayer or 2-level actuators with an additional TiAl hinge layer respectively. Also the fabrication of single crystalline Si micro-mirrors using layer-transfer bonding is discussed.