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These elementary operations are combined many times over to create devices. Process complexity is often discussed in terms of the number of lithography steps: six lithography steps are enough for a simple P-Type Metal-Oxide Semiconductor PMOS transistor late s technology, and still used as a student lab process in many universities , and many MEMS, solar cell and flat-panel display devices can be made with two to six photolithography steps even today but the 0.

Systems which combine CMOS with other functionalities, like bipolar transistors, integrated displays or sensors, use for example, 0. Arrhenius equation is a very general and useful description of the rates of thermally activated processes. Activation energy can be illustrated as a jumping process over a barrier Figure 1. A great many microfabrication processes show Arrhenius-type dependence: etching, resist development, oxidation, epitaxy, chemical vapor deposition which are chemical processes are all governed by exponential temperature dependencies, as are diffusion, electromigration and grain growth which are physical processes.

The magnitude of the pre-exponential factor z T and the activation energy Ea vary a lot. In etching reactions, activation energy is below 1 eV, in polysilicon deposition Ea is 1. But almost every device includes structures with ca.

Narrow individual lines can be made by a variety of methods; what really counts is resolution; the power to resolve two neighboring structures. It determines devicepacking density. The resolution usually gets most of attention when microscopic dimensions are discussed, but alignment between structures in different lithography steps is equally important. Alignment is, as a rule of thumb, one-third of the minimum linewidth.

High resolution but poor alignment can result in inferior device-packing density compared with poorer resolution but tighter alignment. Oxide thicknesses below 5 nm are used in CMOS manufacturing as gate oxides and as flash-memory tunnel oxides. There are also self-limiting deposition processes, which enable extremely thin films to be made, often at the expense of deposition rate. Chemical vapor deposition CVD can be used for anything from a few nanometres to a few micrometres.

Sputtering also produces films from 0. Typical applications include polymer spinning, both photoresist as well as polymers that form permanent parts of devices. Photoresist thickness is an important parameter in determining resolution: it is easier to make small structures in thin photoresist layers this is the same reason why slide films have better resolution than negatives. Etching of thin films can produce structures equal to thin film thickness. Depth is one thing, profile is another: vertical walled structures are much more difficult to make than sloped walls.

When two or more wafers are bonded together, structural heights of several millimetres are encountered. The above classifications are based on device functionality. Reproduced from Green, A. Reproduced from Yilmaz, H. The starting wafers for volume devices need to be uniform throughout. Patterns are often made on both sides of the wafer, and it is important to note that some processes affect both sides of the wafer and some are one sided.

However, device structure or operation is connected with the properties of the substrate. Thin-film transistors TFTs are most often fabricated on nonsemiconductor substrates: glass, plastic or steel.

Surface micromechanical devices like switches, relays, DNA arrays, fluidic channels and gas sensors are often fabricated on silicon wafers for convenience but they could be fabricated on glass substrates as well. Membrane devices are a sub-class of thin-film devices: again, all functionality is in the thin top layer, but instead of full wafer mechanical support, only a thin membrane supports the structures.

Many thermal devices are membrane devices for thermal isolation: thermopiles, bolometers, chemical microreactors and mass flow meters Figure 1. Many acoustic devices also utilize bulk removal.

Optical paths can be opened by removing the bulk semiconductor. X-ray lithography masks are gold or tungsten microstructures on a micrometrethick membrane. Wafer properties like thermal conductivity or transparency may be important Figure 1. Two or more wafers are joined together permanently. Silicon is transparent at infrared wavelengths, and radiation can enter the device through the wafer.

Redrawn from Blomberg, M. More and more layer transfer and wafer bonding techniques are being developed, and stacked devices of various sorts are expected to appear; for example, GaAs optical devices bonded to Si-based electronics, or MEMS devices bonded to ICs.

Reproduced from Bouwstra, S. Reproduced from Lin, C. It is the number one device by all measures: number of devices sold, silicon area consumed, the narrowest linewidths and the thinnest oxides in mass production, as well as dollar value of production.

Most equipment for microfabrication have originally been designed for MOS IC fabrication, and later adapted to other applications. The MOS transistor is a capacitor with silicon substrate as the bottom electrode, the gate oxide as the capacitor dielectric and the gate metal as the top electrode. Despite the name MOS, the gate electrode is usually made of phosphorus-doped polycrystalline silicon, not metal Figure 1.

The basic function of a MOS transistor is to control the flow of electrons from the source to the drain by the gate voltage and the field it generates in the channel. The transistors are isolated electrically from the neighbouring transistors by silicon dioxide field oxide areas. This isolation eats up a lot of area, and therefore transistor-packing density on a chip does not depend on transistor dimensions alone.

Scaling down MOS transistor channel length makes the transistors faster. Field oxide thickness is ca. Two cleanroom designs are shown in Figure 1.

Wafers are cleaned actively during processing: hundreds of litres of ultrapure water de-ionized water, DIW are used for each wafer during its fabrication. This is the dynamic part of particle cleanliness: the passive part comes from careful selection of materials for cleanroom walls, floors and ceilings, including sealants and paints, plus process equipment, wafer storage boxes and all associated tools, fixtures and jigs.

Even though extreme care is taken to ensure cleanliness during microprocessing, some devices will always be defective. If the drawing is to scale, it will be specifically notified; all other figures in this book have z-scale enlarged for readability. IC chips are getting larger even though the linewidths are scaled down because more functions are integrated on a chip. What is the theoretical maximum etch rate of a mm diameter silicon wafers when chlorine flow is sccm standard cubic centimetres per minute?

Accelerated tests for chips are run at elevated temperatures in order to find out failures faster. Use activation energy, 0. What are maximum currents that can run in micrometre aluminium wiring? In the year , linewidths were in the range of 0. When will linewidth equal atomic dimensions?

Comments, hints and answers to selected problems are presented in appendix A. Bouwstra, S. Green, A. Lin, C. Whyte, W. Yilmaz, H. In addition to seeing and measuring those structures, we sometimes have to see details of the structures, and sometimes atomic level analysis is required, for example, to understand thinfilm nucleation and interface quality.

This is possible but time consuming, and it should not be mixed up with quick and simple methods that are used in everyday process monitoring. This is useful in many applications because we can always include test structures of any dimensions, irrespective of actual device dimensions.

Dark field microscopes have illumination from the side, which gives an enhanced detection of steps and edges that reflect light up, and in confocal microscopy, light from focus depth alone is collected by the optical system.

Fluorescence microscopy can be used to see organic residues on the wafer and Nomarski interference contrast images provide enhanced information about surface-height differences.

Scanning electron microscopy SEM has minimum resolution down to 5 nm, which makes it applicable to almost all microfabricated structures. In top view imaging, SEM is like optical microscope, except for the higher resolution. Its real power comes into play in tilted and cross-sectional views Figure 2. Cross-sectional images can be used to obtain topographic information photoresist sidewall angle, deposition step coverage but at the expense of sample destruction and associated increase in analysis time.

Transmission electron microscope TEM provides ultimate image resolution, down to atomic imaging Figure 2. For nm structures, this translates to 1 nm, which is very difficult indeed.

Linewidth is often known as critical dimension CD. All major CD measurements rely on scanning: an optical slit or aperture, a laser or electron beam spot or a mechanical stylus is scanned over the line. Linewidth measurement depends on edge detection in all these methods. This has both inherent and microstructure-related limitations. A signal from the edge is not a delta function even in the case of perfectly vertical sidewall.

Beam spot and mechanical stylus alike have dimensions that are similar to microstructure dimensions and these lead to systematic errors in linewidth measurement. Both electromechanical stylus systems known as surface profilers and atomic force microscopes AFM can be used, but as can be seen from Figure 2.

Photo courtesy Santeri Tuomikoski, Helsinki University of Technology; b a heavily boron-doped silicon bridge. From Buchanan, M. Source: Tong, Q. The scan profile is shown below. Linewidths of isolated lines are measured but the shape of the probe tip affects the line profile. Conductive and dielectric films must often be measured by different techniques but scanning probe methods are quite universal: a step is formed by etching and a probe-tip scans over the step.

Scanning tunnelling microscope STM can have atomic resolution. It is a research tool for surface science, but its relative, the atomic force microscope AFM , which has nanometre resolution, is becoming a favourite metrology tool in microfabrication Micrometrology and Materials Characterization 19 L T W Figure 2. Thickness is ca. AFM images provide not only surface images but also step height and linewidth data.

AFM is also the standard method for measuring wafer-surface roughness. Commonly used optical thickness measuring methods are ellipsometry and reflectometry. In ellipsometry, the complex reflection ratio and phase change are measured in a single measurement, and film thickness can be calculated when substrate optical constants are known from independent measurement.

In reflectometry, a wavelength scan is made e. For very thin films, uncertainty is introduced because optical constants are not really constants, but depend on film thickness. Xray reflection XRR can be used to measure film thickness. Unlike optical methods, XRR is insensitive to refractive index change. Measurement time, however, is in minutes or even hours, compared with seconds for optical tools.

Sheet resistance is independent of square size. Sheet resistances of doped semiconductor layers will be discussed in Chapter Resistivity is an important property of conducting layers but resistance is the property that can be measured easily. For Needle spacing, s Figure 2. For smaller samples, geometric correction factors need to be applied. Thickness has to be measured independently. Alternatively, sheet resistance can be used to calculate thickness after thin-film resistivity is known bulk values cannot usually be used.

Many electrical test structures have been devised for conductive films and doping structures. These are fast measurements, ideally suited for wafer mapping: sheet resistance measurement requires four pads for probe needles, and electrical linewidth measurements also require the same.

Contact chains make do with two pads but generally 4-pad measurements, with separate feeds for current and voltage measurements, eliminate contact resistance parasitics. A combined 6-pad structure Figure 2.

In the six-terminal structure, sheet resistance is measured by driving current Ic through terminals 2 and 3 and measuring the voltage drop Vc across terminals 5 and 6. Diffusions can be measured similarly, but the assumption of profile needs to be accounted for. Electrical test structures are implemented on test chips on the wafer, or alternatively, they can be embedded in the scribelines between chips. Test structures for 1 2 3 wafer fab measurements can thus be discarded after the fabrication is completed.

This saves area because the dicing saw requires a margin of ca. Small analysis areas and volumes limit available methods and sensitivities. This is a relief in some cases because background signals are very low, but if the impurities themselves need to be measured, then we are in for some tough challenges.

These different concentration levels result in a fairly wide range of analytical methods that must be employed. Elemental detection can be accomplished with many methods quite readily, but quantification is often difficult. Comparative results are often presented: treatments A, B, C versus reference sample.

Treatments might represent new plasma CVD oxide processes and thermal oxide is used as reference; or the treatments are different annealing conditions with the unannealed sample as a reference. Resistivity of metal film can increase by an order of magnitude upon phase change, and polycrystalline silicon final grain size distribution after annealing is dependent on Micrometrology and Materials Characterization 21 b Intensity a.

Reproduced from Ohmi, T. X-ray diffraction provides structural information Figure 2. These secondary ions are mass-analysed, giving their identity. SIMS is thus a surface-sensitive technique, but another important SIMS application is depth profiling: the ion beam erodes the surface, and layers beneath the surface become available If minute amounts of matter on wafer surface must be analysed, total reflection can be used.

Reproduced from Plummer, J. When the erosion rate is known, SIMS data provides information about atomic concentrations as a function of depth. SIMS measurement is slow and expensive, but it is the accepted standard for dopant depth distribution measurement even though we are most often interested in electrically active dopants, whereas SIMS only counts atoms. SIMS offers nanometre depth resolution and dynamic range Figure 2.

Auger can identify surface atoms, be they residues from previous steps or contaminants from processes. Auger is therefore a tool for surface chemical analysis Figure 2. With the aid of sample erosion technique similar to SIMS , Auger can be transformed into a depth-profiling technique: after surface analysis, sputtering removes some material, and the Auger measurement of the newly formed surface is made.

This is continued until the desired sample depth is probed. An electron from an outer shell fills the hole, and gives off excess energy during transition.

Another outer shell electron receives this energy and escapes. The energy of this Auger electron is uniquely determined by the atomic structure, and therefore the identity of the element giving rise to the signal can be determined.

Reproduced from Schaffner, T. This has an important ramification for the analysis area: X-ray spots are fairly large, in the hundred micrometre range, and large areas are needed for analysis. Primary X-rays a few kilovolts eject electrons from the sample. The energy of ejected electrons is related to their binding energy, and this enables not only elemental identification but also chemical bond identification. Electron energy is slightly different depending on bonding, and, for example, C—O, C—F and C—C bonds can be distinguished.

Figure courtesy Jaakko Saarilahti, VTT Micrometrology and Materials Characterization 23 back towards the surface, slows down on the way back, and finally emerges from the solid and reaches the detector. All these steps can be handled calculationally, since RBS is a quantitative method. Elastic recoil from heavy atoms is more pronounced, and RBS is ideally suited for atoms like arsenic, tantalum, copper or tungsten.

Signal energy is sometimes confusing because it depends not only on the depth at which it originates but also on the mass of the atom that caused backscattering. In Figure 2. Silicon signal is weak because silicon is a light atom and beneath copper and tantalum. Copper is the topmost layer, but because it is lighter than tantalum, its peak is lower in energy. RBS detectability depends on matrix: elements lighter than the matrix are not readily detectable.

Oxygen and nitrogen analysis on top of silicon wafers are therefore difficult for RBS. Mass separation between neighbouring elements is poor in RBS, and therefore silicon, aluminium and phosphorous cannot readily be resolved. The electron beam diverges as it interacts with the Eo matter. The scattering of electrons spreads the beam to a volume much larger than the beam spot on the surface, as shown in the Figure 2. Auger electrons, which originate at the very surface, are unaffected by this spreading, but X-rays and backscattered electrons that are generated deep inside the sample can escape and reach the detector.

This radius of electron microprobe analysis EMPA a. EDX or energy dispersive X-ray analysis can be orders of magnitude bigger than the electron beam spot size. If the sample is made thin, of the order of nm, electron scattering effects can be eliminated. The only exception is SIMS, which can detect every element from hydrogen to uranium. Auger spectroscopy cannot detect H, He or Li because of fundamental limitation of the three-electron Auger process, but all other elements that are detectable.

It gives information about chemical bonds, because infrared vibrations are typically bond stretching and bending vibrations. Si—O bonds are desirable in silicon dioxide, but Si—H bonds indicate unwanted atomic arrangements and potential reliability problems.

Si—F bonds on an etched surface hint at polymeric residue formation mechanism and help in designing the removal process. The amount of these carriers over time is measured in a non-contact arrangement by microwave reflection.

Charge-carrier lifetime can be correlated with impurities and defects in the semiconductor material. Neutron activation analysis NAA detects gamma quanta that have been excited by neutrons. Polycrystalline materials require more inputs than single crystals, for example, grain size and texture, and assumptions of grain boundary diffusion versus bulk diffusion, among others.

It can simulate the following processes: Figure 3. Circuit simulation is the most advanced and process simulation is the least developed of the three kinds of simulations. Of course, continuous scaling to smaller linewidths means that new phenomena must be implemented into process and device simulators regularly.

Diffusion, ion implantation, oxidation and epitaxy are treated. These steps are needed for more realistic models of surfaces and interfaces, but they do not reveal anything about the deposition or etching processes. ICECREM models can account for a number of important real life effects such as high phosphorus concentration in diffusion, implantation through oxide and oxidation enhanced diffusion OED.

These features will be discussed in Chapters 13, 14 and Sensitivity analysis can be carried out to study both processparameter and model-parameter changes.

Grid is defined next: simulation depth is fixed e. Process steps are then defined in sequence, followed by output commands. There are two important points in the concentration curves: the maximum concentration and its depth, and the junction depth in which the substrate dopant level and the diffused dopant levels match. The junction depths range from tens of nanometres to many micrometres. This is illustrated in Figure 3. The structures above the silicon surface are usually not simulated, but simply drawn geometries.

They are tools to add realism, like the deposition and etching steps in 1D simulators. Two-dimensional simulators are about cross sections of structures, whereas 1D was only about layers. In 1D, it is not possible to study the deposition of films over other films; neither are cross sections relevant. Figure 3. Continuum simulators are used in integrated packages, but more and more atomistic simulation is needed.

Reproduced from Taur, Y. Saving on the computational time can be in orders of magnitude. Grid, or simulation mesh, in a 1D simulator, is regular and easy to generate, but in 2D simulators, the mesh generation is much more difficult. In order to reduce the computation time, a dense grid is used where abrupt changes are expected, and a sparse grid where the gradients are not steep.

Instead of rectangular grids, triangular grids are often employed. Optical lithography simulation is a self-contained regime in process simulation. Its main modules are optics, resist photochemistry and development, and its main output is resist profile. This will be discussed in Chapter A narrow but long transistor can be simulated by a 2D simulator, but a narrow and short transistor with similar dimensions in both x- and y-directions really needs 3D treatment.

Again, complexity and time of simulation increase drastically over the 2D case. Roughly speaking, if 1D simulation takes seconds, 2D takes minutes and 3D, hours. However, a 10 nm grid is no good for 3D simulation because 3D simulation is used especially for nm devices and alike, and perhaps a 1 nm grid is used. But the question is not only computational; additional physical models need to be developed because more and more atomistic models must be used, and the continuum approximation fails because of the atomic nature of matter.

In order to take advantage of 3D-process simulation, 3D-device simulators must be used, just as 2D-process simulators feed into 2D-device simulators.

Advanced device simulators must similarly account for the fact that electric current is not a continuous variable, but a stream of charge packets with 1. Simulation needs to extend from an atomic scale to a reactor scale. On the 1 m scale, simulation is needed to predict gas flows and temperature distributions inside the reactor; on the micrometre scale, simulation is needed to predict doping and deposition inside and on microstructures, and an atomic level simulation is needed for understanding the details of film growth and diffusion.

For thin-film deposition, such a simulator would produce a relation between process parameters and film properties. At present, such a multiscale simulation remains a faraway goal. Simulation of Microfabrication Processes 31 0. Reproduced from Dew, S. What is the difference between the oxidation rates of boron, phosphorus and arsenic doped wafers when all have identical doping levels? How does the thermal oxide thickness on a phosphorus-doped wafer change with dopant concentration?

What is the energy that phosphorus ions must have to penetrate through nm of oxide? Compare your simulator with other simulators: how does it reproduce ranges and concentrations for ion implantation of arsenic into silicon? Data from Krusius, P. Ho, C. Krusius, P. Law, M. Lorentz, J. Taur, Y. Part II Materials 4 Silicon Silicon transistors were first made in , five years after the first germanium-based transistors.

The electron mobility in germanium was much higher, and germanium crystal growth was more advanced. However, silicon, with its 1. The real breakthrough came by the end of s when the beneficial role of silicon dioxide was recognized: silicon dioxide provided the passivation of semiconductor surfaces, and it resulted in improved transistor reliability.

When it was further noticed that SiO2 layer could act as a diffusion mask and as isolation for integrated metallization, the way was open for the invention of the integrated circuit. Oxide was a suitable isolation material and aluminium metallization could be patterned on top of the oxide. Neither GaAs nor Ge form stable and water insoluble oxides. Silicon crystal growth rapidly caught up with germanium, and the steady increase in wafer size has continued up to this day, with mm diameter wafers now in production.

For other substrates, smaller sizes are still widely used, and when new materials such as silicon carbide SiC are introduced, the crystal growth and the wafering yield are so low that only small ingots and small wafers make sense. Some million silicon wafers, corresponding to 3 to 4 km2 , are processed annually. The largest proportion of them are mm and mm diameter wafers, ca. The latest mm wafers accounted for some 10 million slices in An energy gap of 1.

Silicon source gases can be purified to extremely high degrees of purity, meaning that a high resistivity material can be made. Optical absorption in the visible makes silicon suitable for photodetectors and solar cells, and its transparency in the infrared above 1.

The excellent mechanical properties of silicon have been utilized since the s in micromechanical pressure and force sensors that rely on bending beams and diaphragms.

Both are standard processes in silicon microfabrication. Silicon Poisson ratio, 0. Silicon is as strong as steel, but this fact is disguised by two factors: first, most of us do not have experience with 0. Data from Hull, R. The yield strength of silicon is 7 GPa at room temperature; different steel varieties have yield strengths of 2 to 4 GPa while the aluminium yield strength is only 0. SiHCl3 boiling point EGS is a polycrystalline material, which is used as a source material in single-crystal growth.

MGS is converted to gaseous trichlorosilane 4. The dopant is introduced by adding pieces of doped silicon for low doping concentration or elemental dopants P, B, Sb or As for high doping concentration.

The crucible is heated in vacuum to ca. A single-crystalline seed of known crystal Silicon 37 Table 4. Bonding of two or even more wafers together to create more complex wafers is another further development. Silicon-on-insulator SOI wafers can be made by, for example, wafer bonding Figure 4. Silicon-on-sapphire SOS wafers rely on epitaxial deposition of silicon on top of a crystalline sapphire Al2 O3. It is also possible to create layers inside the wafer for additional functionality.

These advanced wafers will be discussed in Chapters 15 Ion implantation and 17 Bonding and layer transfer. These defects can be classified according to their origin as grown-in defects and process-induced defects. The former are starting material and crystal-pulling related, and the latter result from the wafering process at the wafer manufacturer and from the wafer processing in the wafer fab Table 4. Metallic impurities come from polysilicon, quartz crucible, graphite and other hot parts of the growth system.

The segregation coefficients of most metals are very small, and the crystal is purified relative to the melt. Metals are, however, fast diffusers in silicon, and they react with other defects and form clusters. Metals affect electronic devices by creating trapping centres in silicon midgap, reducing minority carrier lifetimes and lowering mobility.

Point defects are zero-dimensional: vacancies missing atoms in the lattice , substitutional impurities foreign atoms at silicon lattice sites and interstitials atoms such as oxygen at non-lattice sites Figure 4. Divacancies and phosphorous-vacancy pairs are also pointlike defects. Point defects play an important role in diffusion, which is obvious because solid diffusion requires empty sites for atoms to move in the lattice.

Some vacancies are present even at room temperature as a result of thermal equilibrium processes but additional vacancies generated by energetic or high temperature processing play a dominant role in diffusion. One-dimensional or line defects are called dislocations. These come in many varieties, for example, extra half-planes inserted between the regular atomic planes. From Green, M. The silicon yield strength a.

Temperature differences between the wafer centre and the edge can easily lead to thermal stresses above the silicon yield strength.

Stresses can be relaxed by slip-line formation. Area defects include stacking faults, grain boundaries and twin boundaries. Processes that cause volume changes, such as oxidation, are prone to produce defects. Oxidation induced stacking faults OISF are a class of such defects. Bulk defects include voids and precipitates. When the ingot is cooled down, the impurity and the dopant concentration exceed the solid solubility limit see Figure Excess dopant or impurity will form precipitates.

Oxygen precipitates O2 P is one class of such volume defects. Oxygen, which is present in CZ-wafers at 5 to 20 ppma levels, is initially dissolved in interstitials sites, but can precipitate during thermal treatments.

Precipitation can take place on the surface or in the bulk. Bulk precipitates act as gettering centres for impurities and are thus beneficial. Carbon atoms act as nucleation sites and centres for oxygen precipitation.

Microvoids are clusters of vacancies formed inside the ingot during crystal pulling. When wafers are cut and polished, these voids end up at wafer surface. A microvoid causes a laser scatterometry signal similar to a particle.

Vacancy clusters were therefore classified as particles, and were given the name COP, for Crystal Originated Particles today, advanced multiangle scatterometry tools can distinguish voids from particles. It was the fact that the number of COPs did not decrease in cleaning and it could in fact increase! Haze is defined as light scattering from surface defects, for example, scratches, surface roughness or crystal defects. Calculate an estimate for silicon lattice constant from atomic mass and density.

Consider an Olympic swimming pool filled with golf balls and one squash ball. If the golf balls represent silicon atoms, and the squash ball represents a phosphorous atom, what would be the resistivity of a silicon piece with such a doping concentration? Electronic grade polysilicon is available with 0.

What is the highest ingot resistivity that can be pulled from such a starting material? If 50 kg of ultrapure polysilicon is loaded into a CZcrystal puller, how much boron should be added if the target doping level of the ingot is 10 ohm-cm? If the wafer-resistivity specifications are 5 to 10 ohm-cm phosphorus , calculate the fraction of the ingot that yields wafers within this specification.

If the neck in a CZ-ingot is 2 mm in diameter, what is the maximum ingot size that can be pulled before the silicon yields catastrophically? Silicon 45 Fischer, A. Green, M. Hull, R. Jenkins, T. Petersen, K. IEEE, 70 , Introduction to Microfabrication Microfabrication is the key technology behind integrated circuits, microsensors, photonic crystals, ink jet printers, solar cells and flat panel displays.

Microfabrication is actually a collection of technologies which are utilized in making microdevices. Some of them have very old origins, not connected to manufacturing, like lithography or etching. Polishing was borrowed from optics manufacturing, and many of the vacuum techniques come from 19th century physics research. The book, on the whole, is very readable and it does do a decent job of providing background knowledge of microfabrication. It also has a lot of pretty SEM pictures, so I guess that's something.

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Microfabrication and precision engineering is an increasingly important area relating to metallic, polymers, ceramics, composites, biomaterials and complex materials. Micro-electro-mechanical-systems MEMS emphasize miniaturization in both electronic and mechanical components. Alimentacion Saludable del Lactante del Escolar y Alimentacion download pdf. Oxide Growth In many cases, an oxide layer is desired as a mask for subsequent processes e. Resist Spinning and Soft Bake As the first step in the lithography process itself, a thin layer of an organic polymer, a photoresist sensitive to ultraviolet UV radiation, is deposited on the oxide surface see Fig.

The liquid photoresist is dispensed onto a wafer that is held by a vacuum chuck in a resist spinner. The wafer is then spun in one or more steps at precisely controlled speeds.

The spin speed between and rpm allows the formation of a uniform film. At these speeds, the centrifugal force causes the liquid to flow to the edges, where it builds up until expelled when the surface tension is exceeded.

The resulting polymer thick- ness, T, is a function of spin speed, solution concentration, and molecular weight measured by intrinsic viscosity. The spin curves for various photore- sists can be obtained from the manufacturer. The spinning process is of pri- mary importance to the effectiveness of pattern transfer. The quality of the resist coating determines the density of defects transferred to the device under construction. Introduction to Microfabrication Techniques 9 Fig.

Resulting patterns after exposure and development of a positive- and nega- tive-tone photoresist. The opaque image on the mask is transferred as is onto the posi- tive photoresist. The image is reversed in the case of a negative photoresist. Exposure and Postexposure Treatment Pattern transfer onto a photoresist is done by shining light through the mask see Fig.

One typically uses the g-line nm or i-line nm of a mercury lamp. In general, the smallest feature that can be printed using projec- tion lithography is roughly equal to the wavelength of the exposure source.

The action of light on a photoresist either increases or decreases the resist solubility depending on whether it is a positive or negative photoresist, respec- tively. Thus, for a positive-tone photoresist, the opaque pattern on the mask will determine the features remaining in the resist layer after development see Fig.

Conversely, after development of a negative photoresist, the clear pat- tern of the mask determines the remaining photoresist features Fig. The profile of the photoresist side walls see Fig. Figure 4 illustrates the use of a lift-off profile in the lift-off process. The resist wall profile can be controlled by adjusting resist tone, exposure dose, developer strength, and development time, as well as by other means. The three different photoresist profiles. The overcut profile is the profile that is normally obtained from a positive-tone photore- sist.

The vertical profile achieves the best pattern fidelity, but is relatively difficult to obtain. Post-exposure treatment is often desired because the reactions initiated dur- ing exposure might not have run to completion. To halt the reactions or to induce new ones, several post-exposure treatments can be used: postexposure baking, flood exposure with other types of radiation, treatment with reactive gas, and vacuum treatment.

Development, Descumming, and Postbaking During the development process, selective dissolving of resist takes place see Fig. Development can be done using a liquid wet development , a gas, or plasma dry development. Positive resists are typically developed in aqueous alkaline solutions e. Unwanted residual photoresist sometimes remains after development. Descumming is a procedure for removing this unwanted photoresist with a mild plasma treatment.

In this process, highly energetic oxygen ions react and essentially burn away the unwanted photoresist. Hard baking also improves the hardness of the film.

Improved hardness increases the resistance of the resist to subsequent etching and deposition steps. Introduction to Microfabrication Techniques 11 Fig. Example of lift-off sequence using negative resist as sacrificial layer. This method is used in cases in which the metal is difficult to etch e. Pattern Transfer In cases in which the photoresist is a permanent part of the final device e. In most other cases, the sacrificial photoresist pattern is used as a mask for etching subtractive or deposition additive on the underlying substrate a subtractive process; see Fig.

In a subtractive process, the resist acts as a protective barrier to the etching agent, which can be a liquid solution, a gas, or plasma. After pattern transfer, the resist can be removed for further process steps. Similarly, pattern transfer can involve a deposition technique: chemical vapor deposition or e-beam evaporation.

Soft Lithography Soft lithography 2—4 techniques incorporate an imprint step, in which the topography of a template defines patterns created on a substrate.