Microfabricated air bridges for quantum circuits

    公开(公告)号:AU2020423563A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-16

    申请号:AU2020423563

    申请日:2020-12-14

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A method for fabricating a bridge structure in a quantum mechanical device includes providing a substructure including a substrate having deposited thereon a layer of a first superconducting material divided into a first portion, a second portion and a third portion that are electrically insulated from each other; depositing a sacrificial layer on the substructure; electrically connecting the first portion and the second portion with a strip of a second superconducting material, the second superconducting material being different from the first superconducting material; and removing a portion of the sacrificial layer so as to form a bridge structure over the third portion between the first portion and the second portion, the bridge structure electrically connecting the first portion to the second portion while not electrically connecting the third portion to the first portion and not electrically connecting the third portion to the second portion.

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    公开(公告)号:DE10016938C2

    公开(公告)日:2003-04-24

    申请号:DE10016938

    申请日:2000-04-05

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: Process for etching an oxide layer located on a nitride layer in the upper region of a substrate having a high etching selectivity for the oxide layer comprises preparing a plasma derived from a carbonaceous and fluorine-containing gas and a gas containing nitrogen, and etching the substrate in the plasma.

    APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SHIELDING A WAFER FROM CHARGED PARTICLES DURING PLASMA ETCHING

    公开(公告)号:AU2003285581A1

    公开(公告)日:2004-06-30

    申请号:AU2003285581

    申请日:2003-12-02

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A plasma etching system having a wafer chuck with a magnet that applies a magnetic field over a wafer to shield the wafer from charged particles. The magnetic field is parallel with the wafer, and is strongest near the wafer surface. The magnetic field may be straight, or circular. In operation, electrons are deflected from the wafer by the Lorentz force, the wafer acquires a positive charge, and ions are deflected by electrostatic repulsion. Neutral species are allowed through the magnetic field, and they collide with the wafer. Neutral species generally provide more isotropic and material-selective etching than charged particles, so the present magnetic field tends to increase etch isotropy and material selectivity. Also, the magnetic field can protect the wafer from seasoning processes designed to clean unwanted films from the chamber surface as seasoning processes typically rely on etching by charged particles.

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