Abstract:
A method and an apparatus for preparing a backside-ground wafer for testing are described. The method includes the steps of first providing a calibration wafer that has a pattern formed on a top surface of an insulating material such as oxide or nitride. Three droplets of water are applied with each droplet sufficiently apart from the other droplets on the top surface of the calibration wafer. A backside-ground wafer that has a ground backside and a front side to be tested is then mated to the calibration wafer by mating the ground backside to the top surface of the calibration wafer with water droplets therein-between forming a bond by capillary reaction in-between the oxide pattern on the calibration wafer. The apparatus for mounting a backside-ground wafer to a calibration wafer consists of a slanted block having a top surface with a slant angle between about 10° and about 30°.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a production method for a micromechanical part, comprising at least the following steps: forming a main structure (10) of at least one component of the micromechanical part from at least one crystalline layer (12) of a substrate by means of a crystal orientation-independent etching step, and etching at least one area (18) in a defined crystal plane (20) away on the main structure (10) of the at least one component by means of a crystal orientation-dependent etching step. For said crystal orientation-dependent etching step, the defined crystal plane (20) in respect of which the at least one area (18) etched away on the main structure (10) is oriented is the crystal plane that features the lowest etching rate of all crystal planes. The invention further relates to a micromechanical part.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce or essentially remove a salient or a protrusion which generally extends upward from an almost plane surface of a polysilicon film that is formed by low-temperature poly Si (LTPS) annealing of an amorphous silicon film deposited on a substrate. SOLUTION: A flattening solution which is highly aqueous and strongly basic has a pH of 12 or higher and contains water, at least one kind of a strong base, and at least one kind of an etching speed control agent. The method of use thereof includes a process which makes the almost plane surface of polysilicon film contact with the solution which is highly aqueous and strongly basic for a sufficient time to make etching selectively the salient or the protrusion from the surface of the almost plane polysilicon film without etching significantly the almost plane polysilicon film. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
Die Erfindung betrifft ein Herstellungsverfahren für ein mikromechanisches Bauteil, das wenigstens die folgenden Schritte umfasst: Herausstrukturieren einer Grundstruktur (10) mindestens einer Komponente des mikromechanischen Bauteils aus zumindest einer kristallinen Schicht (12) eines Substrats mittels eines kristallorientierungs-unabhängigen Ätzschritts, und Herausarbeiten mindestens einer Fläche (18) einer definierten Kristallebene (20) aus der Grundstruktur (10) der mindestens einen Komponente mittels eines kristallorientierungs-abhängigen Ätzschritts, wobei der kristallorientierungs- abhängige Ätzschritt ausgeführt wird, für welchen die jeweilige definierte Kristallebene (20), nach welcher die mindestens eine an der Grundstruktur (10) herausgearbeitete Fläche (18) ausgerichtet wird, von allen Kristallebenen die niedrigste Ätzrate aufweist. Des Weiteren betrifft die Erfindung ein mikromechanisches Bauteil.
Abstract:
A method of forming a suspended beam in a MEMS process is disclosed. In the process a pit (8) is etched into a substrate (5). Sacrificial material (10) is deposited in the pit (8) and on the surrounding substrate surface. The sacrificial material (10) is then removed from the surrounding substrate surface and from the periphery of the pit (8) so that there is a gap between the sacrificial material and at least two sidewalls of the pit. The sacrificial material is then heated so that it reftows such that the remaining sacrificial material contacts the sidewalls of the pit. Material for the beam (12), which is typically a metal, is then deposited on the substrate surface and the reflowed sacrificial material, and the sacrificial material is then removed to form the suspended beam. The beam could be used as the heating element in an inkjet printer.
Abstract:
A process for the manufacture of semiconductor devices comprising the chemical-mechanical polishing of a substrate or layer containing at least one lll-V material in the presence of a chemical-mechanical polishing composition (Q1) comprising (A) inorganic particles, organic particles, or a mixture or composite thereof, (B) at least one amphiphilic non-ionic surfactant having (b1) at least one hydrophobic group; and (b2) at least one hydrophilic group selected from the group consisting of polyoxyalkylene groups comprising (b22) oxyalkylene monomer units other than oxyethylene monomer units; and (M) an aqueous medium.
Abstract:
A planarization method for use during manufacture of a microelectronic field emitter device (50), comprising applying a glass frit slurry including glass particles in a removable base, and subsequently baking to liquify the frit (300). The invention relates in another aspect to a method of making a microelectronic field emitter device, comprising the steps of: applying a patterned layer of liftoff profile resist over a substrate (326) to define emitter conductor locations; employing the patterned resist layer to form trenches (324) in the substrate at the emitter conductor locations; depositing emitter conductor metal in the trenches and over the patterned resist layer; removing the patterned resist layer; depositing a current limiter layer (334) over the conductors (322) and substrate areas between trenches; depositing a layer of emitter material; pattern masking and etching the layer of emitter material to form emitter structures (330); depositing gate dielectric; applying a patterned layer of liftoff profile resist over the gate dielectric; evaporating gate metal; and removing the patterned resist layer to define gate electrodes (332).