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ELECTRONIC MATERIALS LETTERS
Volume 12, Issue 6, Pages 742-746Publisher
KOREAN INST METALS MATERIALS
DOI: 10.1007/s13391-016-6197-8
Keywords
metal-assisted chemical etching; deep trenches; anisotropic etching; silicon doping level; profile control
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, CAS
- Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality [13ZR1420700]
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Metal-assisted chemical etching (MACE) has been used as a promising alternative method to fabricate micro/nano-structures on silicon substrates inexpensively. In this paper, profiles of deep trenches on silicon substrates, with different doping levels, fabricated by MACE were studied. A layer of interconnected gold islands was first deposited onto the silicon substrate as catalyst. Electrochemical etching was then performed in a hydrofluoric acid (HF) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) mixture solution with different HF-to-H2O2 ratio rho (rho = [HF]/([HF] + [H2O2])). Vertical deep trenches were fabricated successfully by using this method. It was observed that even under identical experimental condition, sidewalls with various tilting angles and different morphology could still form on silicon substrates with different resistivity. This possibly because with different resistivity silicon substrate, the gradient of holes in it greatly changed, and so did the final morphology. As a result, the tilting angle of etched trench sidewall can be tuned from 6 degrees to 96 degrees using silicon substrates with different resistivity and etchants with different rho. By applying the angle-tuning technique revealed in this study, high aspect ratio patterns with vertical sidewalls could be fabricated and three-dimensional complex structures could be designed and realized in the future.
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