MEMS - Surface Micro-Machined Resonator

The image below shows a scan on a surface micro-machined resonator,
350 x 350 µm - 351 x 351 data points. The data was acquired with a Xyris 4000 (confocal laser)

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By numeric levelling the data set can be aligned. The following image gives an indication of the flatness of the surface.

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The trenches in the lower left corner have been magnified in a second measurement and are shown here over an area of 60 x 60 µm with 201 x 201 data points.

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The left image below displays a cross-section through the structure along the vertical yellow line in the right image (please note that neither the left, nor the right image are to scale).

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The depth of the trenches is 4 µm, their width is 7 µm.