激光抛光化学气相沉积金刚石膜

讨论了激光抛光金刚石膜机理、影响因素,分析了激光抛光金刚石膜理论模型、激光抛光后金刚石膜的粗糙度极限,提出要实现金刚石膜特别是厚膜的精密抛光须考虑激光辅助复合抛光或其它抛光工艺。     

Ion beam-assisted planarization of chemically vapor deposited diamond thin films using electron cyclotron resonance plasma

The high inherent surface roughness of as-deposited polycrystalline diamond films has made effective planarization processing of these films essential for most industrial applications. We have investigated the efficacy of ion beam sources for planarization in an electron cyclotron resonance plasma system using both direct substrate biasing and an accelerating grid system. Rough polycrystalline diamond films were synthesized using hot filament chemical vapor deposition. Both the etching rates and the resultant surface roughnesses were found to decrease as the angle of incidence (relative to the substrate surface normal) of the ion beam was increased. In the case of direct biasing of the sample, acicular features were observed following processing at higher incident angles. The use of double ion-extraction grids in conjunction with concomitant sample rotation was found to produce more uniform planarization of the diamond films. The rate of surface roughness reduction was found to be nonlinear and decreased with time. For both ion extraction methods investigated, the average film roughness (R_a) was significantly reduced from 0.2 to 0.05–0.06 μm.     

On the feasibility of using an atmospheric discharge plasma as an RF antenna

The plasma produced by a laser-guided, electric discharge in the atmosphere has been formed in the shape of a folded monopole antenna with a characteristic frequency of 112 MHz. This plasma antenna has been used to transmit and receive signals at 112 MHz. While the plasma remained conducting, the signal transmitted from, and received on, the plasma antenna was within -1pm1dB of that transmitted from and received on a "standard" copper folded monopole antenna of the same size. During this time the signal transmitted from, and received on, the plasma antenna also remained approximately constant in amplitude (fluctuationssim pm1dB). This useful lifetime of the plasma antenna was varied fromsim 200 mus togeq 2000 mus by changing the dration of the electric discharge sustaining the plasma columns. In these experiments, the noise from the plasma antenna was not distinguishable from that developed using a copper antenna, but in both cases the noise was much larger than the true thermal noise background.     

高功率MPCVD金刚石膜红外光学材料制备

使用自行研制的椭球谐振腔式MPCVD装置,以H2-CH4为气源,就高功率条件下CH4浓度对金刚石膜的生长速率和品质的影响规律进行了研究,并在此基础上进行了大面积光学级金刚石膜的沉积。利用扫描电镜、激光拉曼谱仪、傅里叶红外光谱仪对金刚石膜的表面和断口形貌、金刚石膜的品质、红外透过率等进行了表征。实验结果表明,使用自行设计建造的椭球谐振腔式MPCVD装置在高功率条件下通过提高CH4浓度会使金刚石膜的生长速率增加,但当CH4浓度达到一定比例后,金刚石膜的生长速率将不再继续提高。CH4浓度在0.5%~2%时制备的金刚石膜品质较高;自行设计建造的椭球谐振腔式MPCVD装置能够满足在较高功率下光学级金刚石膜的快速沉积要求。     

ECR plasma etching of chemically vapour deposited diamond thin films

Arc jet deposited films of diamond have been patterned using Au or photoresist masks and electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) O/sub 2/ discharges. To achieve anisotropic features, additional RF-induced DC biasing of the sample is necessary. Diamond etch rates of 2000 AA/min were obtained for 1 mtorr, 400 W O/sub 2/ discharges with -80 V DC bias. The etch rates increase with either pressure or microwave power as a result of a greater density of atomic oxygen in the plasma. Chlorine (BCl/sub 3/)-based did not product significant etching of the diamond, but SF/sub 6//O/sub 2/ mixtures had slightly faster rates than O/sub 2/ alone.<>     

Electrochemical polishing of ITO films

Oxalic acid and tartaric acid were used to electrochemically treat the surface of indium tin oxide (ITO) films. To improve the surface of ITO films, the applied voltage was found via potentiodynamic technique. By controlling the concentration of oxalic acid and tartaric acid, the surface can be effectively planarized via the formation of a passive layer. The composition of this passive layer might be SnO₂ according to XPS analysis and potential-pH diagrams. The best treatment with root-mean-squared roughness less than 1.0 nm can be obtained by electropolishing at 0.65 V in 3 wt% tartaric acid.     

Electrical conductivity and photoluminescence of diamond films grown by downstream microwave plasma CVD

Electrical conductivity measurements and photoluminescence (PL) were used to study the effects that sample distance from the plasma during growth has on the carrier transport properties of undoped CVD diamond. The films were grown by downstream microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition at distances from 0.5 to 2.0 cm from the edge of plasma glow. Electrical conductivity measurements were performed between room temperature and 1000° C and then complimented with Raman spectroscopy and PL studies in an attempt to gain a better understanding of the CVD growth process and the resulting electrical and optical properties of the diamond films. Room temperature electrical conductivity was found to vary by over 5 orders of magnitude with increasing growth distance from the plasma, while only moderate changes were observed in the luminescence spectra.     

Passive radio spectroscopy of an atmospheric plasma

Passive radio spectroscopy (1 to 400 MHz) of an air and nitrogen atmospheric dielectric barrier plasma is performed. It is found that the plasma noise floor increases with applied voltage and increases with the inverse of the electrode gap. The air discharge has an enhanced noise emission with respect to nitrogen.     

Chemical mechanical polishing of polymer films

Strategies to reduce capacitance effects associated with shrinking integrated circuit (IC) design rules include incorporating low resistivity metals and insulators with low dielectric values, or “low-κ” materials. Using such materials in current IC fabrication schemes necessitates the development of reliable chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) processes and process consumables tailored for them. Here we present results of CMP experiments performed on FLARE™ 2.0 using a specialized zirconium oxide (ZrO₂) polishing slurry. FLARE™ 2.0 is a poly(arylene) ether from AlliedSignal, Inc. with a nominal dielectric constant of 2.8. In addition, we provide insight into possible removal mechanisms during the CMP of organic polymers by examining the performance of numerous abrasive slurries. Although specific to a limited number of polymers, the authors suggest that the information presented in this paper is relevant to the CMP performance of many polymer dielectric materials.     

Synthesis of highly conductive cobalt thin films by LCVD at atmospheric pressure

We have deposited very low resistant Co films on SiO₂-coated Si substrates using UV pulsed laser pyrolytic decomposition of Co₂(CO)₈ with 355 nm laser radiation at atmospheric pressure. Facile decomposition of the precursors and the use of Ar curtain enable the deposition of relatively pure Co (with O less than 7% and negligible C) at the power of 1.11–3.33 W, and of pure Co at 6.67 W. The resistivity decreases from 58 to 19 µΩ-cm as the power increases from 2.22 to 3.33 W, showing inverse-linear dependence on grain size. In addition, further increase of the power to 6.67 W decreases the resistivity to 9 µΩ-cm, due to both the growth of large grains with negligible contaminants, and the adverse effect of surface roughness. The effects of oxygen contaminants on the resistivity can be minimal, because of its presence in the form of oxide. These low resistant fine metal lines deposited by a direct-writing laser chemical vapor deposition technique at atmospheric pressure have been reported for the first time.     

Selective deposition of diamond films

Polycrystalline diamond films have been selectively deposited on a silicon surface. A novel process was developed which exposes a patterned, scratch damaged silicon area, surrounded by SiO₂, to a high pressure microwave plasma of hydrogen containing methane. The hydrogen plasma dissociates the methane injected into the reaction chamber, resulting in diamond deposition, which occurs only on the exposed silicon. Under the process conditions described in this work, some in situ plasma etching of the oxide is observed, resulting in little or no growth of diamond in unwanted areas, and further enhancing the selectivity. A variety of patterns and structures have been fabricated. Raman spectroscopy confirmed the films were diamond.     

基于电感耦合氧等离子体金刚石膜表面修饰的功率优化

采用电感耦合等离子体（ICP）氧等离子体刻蚀金刚石膜,探寻金刚石膜表面处理的方法。通过分析不同ICP射频源功率和不同偏压源功率下的刻蚀速率,研究了金刚石膜刻蚀的机理作用;通过拉曼光谱进行表征,分析刻蚀前后sp2与sp3的含量。结果表明,在ICP氧等离子体刻蚀的过程中,sp3键部分转化为sp2键;刻蚀后表面粗糙度降低;当...     

金刚石膜MEMS及其应用

由于金刚石膜优异的力学、电学、热学及化学性质,使其成为MEMS中的微型传感器和微型结构的重要的首选材料。利用金刚石膜作为MEMS材料和各种微型机械的技术正在引起极大的兴趣。本文主要综述了金刚石MEMS器件的技术和应用。     

CVD金刚石膜制备方法及其应用

介绍了金刚石膜的应用和低压下化学汽相沉积金刚石膜的主要方法及其最新进展,并对各种方法的优缺点作了简要评述。     

Device dependent control of chemical-mechanical polishing ofdielectric films

This paper presents a control scheme for run-to-run control of chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP). The control scheme tracks both device pattern dependent and equipment induced disturbances. The structure of the controller is such that sensitivity to qual (unpatterned blanket oxide) wafer frequency is minimized. Additionally, prethickness variation and metrology delay are accounted for in the design. Results from applying this scheme in volume production are presented     

半导体金刚石膜的磁阻效应

研究了在硅上Ｐ型异质外延金刚石膜的磁阻效应。实验结果表明金刚石膜有显著的磁阻反应，并与磁阻器件的结构有关。在室温下圆盘形结构的磁阻相对变化在５Ｔ磁场下约为０．８５，而长条形结构只有０．４０。     

喷射CVD法制备金刚石厚膜及其内应力分析

采用直流电弧等离子体喷射CVD法制备出金刚石薄膜,利用扫描电子显微镜(SEM)、Raman光谱及X射线衍射(XRD)等研究基底温度对金刚石厚膜生长特性及内应力的影响。结果表明:950℃基底温度生长的金刚石厚膜结晶性能较好,纯度较高;而850℃和1050℃生长的金刚石厚膜表面呈现大量的孪晶缺陷,结晶度较低,同时出现较多的非金刚石碳,纯度较低。随着基底温度的增加,(111)晶面和(311)晶面的衍射峰强度逐渐增强,(220)晶面的衍射峰强度逐渐降低。850℃和950℃基底温度生长的金刚石厚膜的宏观应力和微观应力都呈现出拉应力,1050℃基底温度生长的金刚石厚膜的宏观应力和微观应力都呈现出压应力。     

Characterization of deep defects in boron-doped CVD diamond films using transient photocapacitance method

We have developed a highly-sensitive transient photocapacitance measurement (TPM) system for deep defects in wide bandgap materials, and applied it to characterize the boron-doped diamond films grown on a high-pressure/high-temperature-synthesized Ib diamond substrate using high-power-density microwave-plasma chemical vapor deposition method. The developed TPM system has both a low detection limit of less than 0.5 fF for changes in the photocapacitance and a low measurement temperature drift of less than 0.03 K in 12 h. By using the TPM system, we have successfully found an acceptor-type defect around 1.2 eV above the valence-band maximum for the B-doped diamond film with a considerably high crystalline quality that had some strong exciton emission peaks in the cathodoluminescence spectra taken at ≈80 K. The photoionization cross section and the defect density estimated for the observed defect were 3.1×10^–15 cm² and 2.8×10¹⁶ cm⁻³, respectively.     

纳米金刚石膜的成核及生长特性研究

采用直流等离子体喷射化学气相沉积(DC arc pla sma jet)系统制备了纳米金刚石膜(NCD),研究了不同的金刚石成核剂溶液对NCD 膜的成核及生长的影响。研究表明,在成核剂溶液中添加二甲基亚砜(DMSO)后成核密度明显 得到提高,而 且制备的NCD膜晶粒分布均匀、致密。当金刚石粉体作为成核剂时,随着其粒径 的增大,NCD膜成核密度下降,晶粒的尺寸均匀性也变差,而粒径为5nm的金刚石纳米粒 子作为成核剂时,NCD膜晶粒间结合致密、颗粒分布均匀。最后,选择5nm的金刚石纳米 粒子和丙酮/DMSO配制的分散液作为成核剂配方,经过60min的生长 ,制备了粒径为50～70 nm的结晶性和品质良好的NCD膜,适用于高频声表面波(SAW)器件及各种光学窗口的研制。     

用脉冲激光沉积法制备类金刚石膜及金刚石薄膜

简要评述了用脉冲激光沉积技术制备类金刚石膜及金刚石薄膜的研究进展，总结了激光脉冲沉积制备薄膜的基本原理及其特点，分析了激光波长，能量，衬底温度等对薄膜质量的影响。