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A 1 0.4 mixture ratio of pure chlorine to argon and Watts of RF microwave power were found to be optimum conditions for the RIE of platinum metal. The addition of argon gas to chlorine was
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A thermal etching with a mixed gas of chlorine and oxygen was applied to analyze the crystal defects in 4H-SiC 0001 epilayers for the first time. The etching rate of the (0001)Si face was more one-tenth slower than that of the (000bar1)C face. Etch pits and oval hillocks were observed on the (0001)Si and (000bar 1 )C faces respectively. The shapes of the etch pits were similar to those in
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¾Reactive ion etching is an anisotropic processReactive ion etching is an anisotropic process ¾Has better selectivity and much higher etch rate Effect of Ions 33 J. Appl. Phys. 50 3189 (1979) Breaks bonds raises temperature locally on the surface and provides activation energy
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Chlorine forms volatile reaction products and can readily achieve rapid smooth and anisotropic etching at room temperature 4 . Commonly used gases are chlorine (Cl 2) 5 and boron trichloride (BCl 3) 6 7 . Silicon tetrachloride (SiCl 4) is also used but it produces slower etch rates 8 and sometimes contaminates the chamber 9 .
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These dry-etching processes frequently use fluorine or chlorine-based plasmas with a variety of additive gases. One commonly used process is inductively coupled plasma reactive ion etching
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Recently reactive ion etching (RIE) of SiC has been successfully employed. Clean RIE-etched SiC surfaces with a high degree of anisotropic etching can be achieved. An etch rate of 0.11 micrometers per minute has been measured when etching SiC in a sulfur hexafluoride/oxygen (4 1) gas
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O2 a reliable etch process has been realized for gold films. An added benefit of these gases is that they also etch films may be etched during a single process. One problem we have found with this approach however is that the etching of gold by chlorine-based gases can become impaired by the redeposition of chemical by-products over
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The RIE (reactive ion etching) processes which are commonly used for anisotropic silicon plasma etching employ the less reactive halogens chlorine or bromine which are used either directly or are released from corresponding compounds for example CF 3 BR CCl 4 CF 2 Cl 2 or CF 3 Cl in the plasma as well as relatively high energy ions for example 100 eV and higher.
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In the past several years reactive ion etching (RIE) of SiC polytypes (3C and 6H) has been investigated in fluorinated gases (primarily CHF3 CBrF3 CF4 SF6 and NF3) usually mixed with oxygen and occasionally with other additives or in a mix-ture of fluorinated gases. In this paper a review of SiC RIE is presented. The primary emphasis is
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4H Silicon Carbide Etching Using Chlorine Trifluoride Gas p.655. Anisotropic Etching of SiC in the Mixed Gas of Chlorine and Oxygen p.659. Model Calculation of SiC Oxidation Rates in the Thin Oxide Regime p.663. Oxygen-Partial-Pressure Dependence of SiC Oxidation Rate Studied by In
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etching micro-feature. Ion bombardment induces anisotropic etching replicating the mask pattern into the poly-Si film. (d) Close-up view of the silicon lattice. Ion bombardment creates a modified surface layer where Cl is mixed within the Si lattice to a depth of ∼10Å depending on the ion energy.
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Dec 01 1985 · A model is presented explaining anisotropic etch profiles by formation of a polymer film on the side walls of the structures which protects the surface against the attack of chlorine radicals. The existence of this protective film is demonstrated by SEM photographs.
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was achieved using 100 Cl2 etch gas at 50 mTorr and zero bias power but the profile of the etched fea-tures was isotropic. With the addition of N2 to the feed gas (Cl2) the profile became more anisotropic. A three steps ICP etch process was developed with a final Ge/Si etch selectivity of 5 1 and anisotropic pro-files.
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crystallographically anisotropic etching rates while the AlGaInP layers with PhC patterns were not attacked by the etchant and free-standing membranes tended to form. The final etching time was chosen to be 4min such that free-standing membranes can well be formed without etching too deep into the substrate. FIG. 4.
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A system and method for achieving a silicon carbide to low-k dielectric etch selectivity ratio of greater than 1 1 using a chlorine containing gas and either hydrogen (H 2) gas or nitrogen (N 2) gas is described.The method is applied to a semiconductor substrate having a low-k dielectric layer and a silicon carbide layer.
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Jun 20 2017 · In contrast the SiC etching rate when using a BCl 3 N 2 gas mixture does not vary consistently with BCl 3 ratio. Instead the etching rate increases almost linearly as
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O2 a reliable etch process has been realized for gold films. An added benefit of these gases is that they also etch films may be etched during a single process. One problem we have found with this approach however is that the etching of gold by chlorine-based gases can become impaired by the redeposition of chemical by-products over
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The RIE (reactive ion etching) processes which are commonly used for anisotropic silicon plasma etching employ the less reactive halogens chlorine or bromine which are used either directly or are released from corresponding compounds for example CF 3 BR CCl 4 CF 2 Cl 2 or CF 3 Cl in the plasma as well as relatively high energy ions for example 100 eV and higher.
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The transformation of 4H-SiC etching shapes by high-temperature annealing was investigated. Although the opening of the etching mask was circular the resulting etched shape was a hexagon dodecagon or rounded polygon with more edges depending on the diameter.
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O2 a reliable etch process has been realized for gold films. An added benefit of these gases is that they also etch films may be etched during a single process. One problem we have found with this approach however is that the etching of gold by chlorine-based gases can become impaired by the redeposition of chemical by-products over
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A method of etching silicon using a chlorine and sulfur dioxide gas chemistry. An embodiment of the method is accomplished using a 20 to 300 sccm of chlorine and 2 to 100 sccm of sulfur dioxide
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50 higher etching rates as compared to the CH4-based plasmas. 13 Addition of a polymer forming gas such as CH4 results in the for-mation of a polymeric thin film on the sidewalls which minimizes the undercutting and provides passivation.14 15 Although mixed chlorine and methane etches have been reported for various III-V
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Aug 01 2019 · 4H-SiC samples with low doping concentration (10 18 cm −3) and high doping concentration (>10 19 cm −3) have been etched using this method and the results are shown in Fig. 1.After etching the low doping area (Fig. 1a) is covered with etching pits and three kinds of dislocations can be identified from the shape.TSDs and TEDs are reveled as hexagonal etching pits with relatively
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In this paper the authors performed a reactive ion etch of a 4H-SiC substrate with a gas mixture of NF sub 3 HBr and O sub 2 resulting in a microtrenching-free etch. The etch rate was 107.8 nm/min and the selectivity over the oxide hard mask was ∼3.85.
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Dec 01 1985 · A model is presented explaining anisotropic etch profiles by formation of a polymer film on the side walls of the structures which protects the surface against the attack of chlorine radicals. The existence of this protective film is demonstrated by SEM photographs.
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Jun 20 2017 · In contrast the SiC etching rate when using a BCl 3 N 2 gas mixture does not vary consistently with BCl 3 ratio. Instead the etching rate increases almost linearly as
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