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Silicon DRIE with anti-footing SOI : 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

If you are interested in this process, either by itself or as part of a longer processing sequence, please send us email at engineering@mems-exchange.org or call us at (703) 262-5368

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Silicon DRIE with anti-footing SOI
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1.4 Photoresist softbake
Materialsilicon
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
Perform handle wafer mounting
If mounting of device wafers on handle wafers is necessary for processing, select yes here.
Perform handle wafer mounting*
yes no
If mounting of device wafers on handle wafers is necessary for processing, select yes here.
Perform photolithography
Please select one of photolithography options listed here.
Perform photolithography*
Please select one of photolithography options listed here.
Perform stylus profilometry
Optional metrology step for depth <300um.
One measurement per wafer.
Perform stylus profilometry*
yes no
Optional metrology step for depth <300um. One measurement per wafer.
Aspect ratio 20
Batch size 1
Etch rate 2 µm/min
Etchant
Solutions and their concentrations.
Bosch process
Mask materials
Materials that can be used to mask etching.
silicon dioxide, OCG 825 35CS, Arch OiR 897-10i, silicon nitride
Material silicon
Min feature size 4 µm
Sides processed either
Wafer holder
Device that holds the wafers during processing.
electrostatic chuck
Wafer size
Wafer size
Comments:
  • Low frequency bias, pulsed etch.
Attachments
[Thumbnail]profile_before_device_etch_silicon_wafer_.tif (768.6 KB, image/tiff)
Last test on standard test wafer. Following tests were made on SOI wafer /wafer: test poly 2/
[Thumbnail]profile_before_device_etch_1_SOI_wafer_.tif (768.6 KB, image/tiff)
last SOI test measuring point 1 /wafer: test SOI 1/
[Thumbnail]profile_before_device_etch_2_SOI_wafer_.tif (768.6 KB, image/tiff)
last SOI test measuring point 2 /wafer: test SOI 1/
[Thumbnail]profile_before_device_etch_3_SOI_wafer_.tif (768.6 KB, image/tiff)
last SOI test measuring point 3 /wafer: test SOI 1/