High rate etching of sapphire wafer using Cl2/BCl3/Ar inductively coupled plasmas

被引:34
作者
Sung, YJ [1 ]
Kim, HS
Lee, YH
Lee, JW
Chae, SH
Park, YJ
Yeom, GY
机构
[1] Sungkyunkwan Univ, Dept Mat Engn, Suwon, South Korea
[2] Univ Strathclyde, Inst Photon, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
[3] Samsung Adv Inst Technol, Compound Semicond Lab, Suwon, South Korea
来源
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING B-SOLID STATE MATERIALS FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY | 2001年 / 82卷 / 1-3期
关键词
sapphire; etch rate; roughness; Cl-2; BCl3;
D O I
10.1016/S0921-5107(00)00716-9
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
Sapphire wafers which are generally used for the fabrication of GaN-based optoelectronic devices are found to be very difficult in lapping, polishing, and cutting for packaging due to the chemical stability and hardness of sapphire. To study possibilities of replacing some of these processes by dry etching, (0001) sapphire wafers were etched using inductively coupled plasmas as a function of gas combination of Cl-2/BCl3 and Ar/Cl-2/BCl3. The increase of BCl3 in Cl-2/BCl3 increased the etch rates. Also, the increase of BCl3 in Cl-2 improved the etch selectivity over photoresist. With the mixture of 50% Cl-2/50% BCl3, sapphire etch rates of 362.7 nm min(-1) could be obtained and, by the addition of 20% Ar in this mixture, the etch rates increased further to 377.5 nm min(-1). When the sapphire etching with 50% Cl-2/50% BCl3 was applied to lapped wafers for polishing, the surface roughness was decreased from 12.95 to 1.43 nm and the smoothness was better than mechanically polished sapphire surface (5.3 8 nm). (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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