Wednesday, July 11, 2012

1207.2402 (Vikram Passi et al.)

Anisotropic Vapor HF etching of silicon dioxide for Si microstructure
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Vikram Passi, Ulf Sodervall, Bengt Nilsson, Goran Petersson, Mats Hagberg, Christophe Krzeminski, Emmanuel Dubois, Bert Du Bois, Jean-Pierre Raskin
Damages are created in a sacrificial layer of silicon dioxide by ion implantation to enhance the etch rate of silicon-dioxide in liquid and vapor phase hydrofluoric acid. The etch rate ratio between implanted and unimplanted silicon dioxide is more than 150 in vapor hydrofluoric acid (VHF). This feature is of interest to greatly reduce the underetch of microelectromechanical systems anchors. Based on the experimentally extracted etch rate of unimplanted and implanted silicon dioxide, the patterning of the sacrificial layer can be predicted by simulation.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.2402

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