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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2009
Filed:
May. 27, 2005
Applicant:
Curtis Nathan Potter, Austin, TX (US);
Inventor:
Curtis Nathan Potter, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Stellar Micro Devices, Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 23/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A cold welded hermetic micro or nano package sealed in an inert atmosphere with optional force maintenance means for ensuring permanent closure. A package capcoated with precursor weld material is sealed to a package basecontaining integral devicethen cold welded with an external force mechanism to compress and flow cold seal preform materialcreating a hermetic peripheral seal in an inert or vacuum atmosphere. Arrays of devices can be sealed with individual caps or arrays of caps which are interconnected.