A crystallographic alignment method in silicon for deep, long microchannel fabrication
| Autor: | Charles Musca, K.J. Winchester, Timothy D. James, Giacinta Parish |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Microchannel
Materials science Fabrication Silicon business.industry Mechanical Engineering chemistry.chemical_element Nanotechnology Isotropic etching Electronic Optical and Magnetic Materials chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry Silicon nitride Mechanics of Materials Optoelectronics Undercut Wafer Electrical and Electronic Engineering Reactive-ion etching business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. 16:2177-2182 |
| ISSN: | 1361-6439 0960-1317 |
| DOI: | 10.1088/0960-1317/16/10/034 |
| Popis: | The aim of this work was to develop an alignment technique to be used in the production of long, deep, large area microchannel devices. The microchannel design specifications used for the investigation were 800 µm deep channels of 100 µm width, with a 200 µm pitch, over an area of 40 mm × 40 mm. The device was fabricated with (1 1 0) orientated silicon, to take advantage of the large wet etch ratio between the {110} and {111} planes. Silicon nitride was used as the channel etchant mask, and was patterned by reactive ion etching. The channels were wet etched in a KOH 40 wt% solution at 80 °C to minimize undercut of the silicon nitride mask, while maintaining a reasonable etch rate of 2 µm min−1. The {111} crystal plane normal to the {110} wafer surface needed to be determined with high accuracy for the fabrication of microchannels of such a large size. Investigations of several established alignment techniques revealed only one suitable technique: the use of a wet etched alignment feature that is self-aligned to the {111} crystal planes. This resulted in an silicon nitride mask undercut of 10 µm for channels 800 µm deep and 45 mm in length. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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