Process Hierarchy

  Wet oxidation
  1 RCA1 clean
  2 HF dip
Allowed materialssilicon, silicon dioxide, polysilicon, silicon nitrideTemperature1100 .. 1200 °C
Refractive index1.46Uniformity0.03
Process characteristics:
Thickness
Thickness*
must be 0.5 .. 5 µm
0.5 .. 5 µm
Material silicon dioxide
Wafer size
Wafer size