There are many inventions described and illustrated herein. In one aspect,
present invention is directed to a thin film encapsulated MEMS, and
technique of fabricating or manufacturing a thin film encapsulated MEMS
including an integrated getter area and/or an increased chamber volume,
which causes little to no increase in overall dimension(s) from the
perspective of the mechanical structure and chamber. The integrated
getter area is disposed within the chamber and is capable of (i)
"capturing" impurities, atoms and/or molecules that are out-gassed from
surrounding materials and/or (ii) reducing and/or minimizing the adverse
impact of such impurities, atoms and/or molecules (for example, reducing
the probability of adding mass to a resonator which would thereby change
the resonator's frequency). In this way, the thin film wafer level
packaged MEMS of the present invention includes a relatively stable,
controlled pressure environment within the chamber to provide, for
example, a more stable predetermined, desired and/or selected mechanical
damping of the mechanical structure.