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Silicon DRIE - No Lag (Etch rate independent of feature size): View
Process Hierarchy
Bonding
Clean
Consulting
Deposition
Doping
Etch
   Anisotropic etch
   Deep RIE
   Isotropic etch
   Miscellaneous etch
   Strip
LIGA
Lift off
Lithography
Mask making
Metrology
Miscellaneous
Packaging
Polishing
Process technologies
Thermal
Unique capabilities

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Silicon DRIE - No Lag (Etch rate independent of feature size)
Process characteristics:
Depth
Depth of material removed by etch process
Depth*
Depth of material removed by etch process, must be 0 .. 100 µm
0 .. 100 µm
Aspect ratio 20
Batch size 25
Etch rate 2 µm/min
Material silicon
Selectivity
Primary material removal rate divided by removal rates of secondary materials (i.e., factors by which primary material is removed faster than secondary materials)
AZ 9245: 80, silicon dioxide: 150, silicon: 1
Sides processed either
Temperature 25 °C
Wafer materials
List of wafer materials this tool can accept (not list of all materials, just the wafer itself).
silicon, silicon on insulator
Wafer size
Wafer size
Equipment Unaxis VLR 700 Bosch Chamber
Equipment characteristics:
Wafer geometry
Types of wafers this equipment can accept
1-flat
Wafer holder
Device that holds the wafers during processing.
cassette
Wafer thickness
List or range of wafer thicknesses the tool can accept
250 .. 800 µm