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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2008
John K. Gritters, Livermore, CA (US);
John K. Gritters, Livermore, CA (US);
FormFactor, Inc., Livermore, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of microspring arrays and methods for fabricating and using same are provided herein. In some embodiments, a microspring array may include at least two lithographically formed resilient contact elements, each resilient contact element having a beam and a tip for contacting a device to be tested, wherein the beams extend in substantially the same direction relative to a first end of the beams, and wherein the ends of the at least two beams are separated by a distance defining a central region and wherein the respective tips of the at least two beams extend away from the beams in a non-zero, non-perpendicular direction into the central region.