Boron doped c-Si substrate to create silicon lattice under membrane

Hopefully many more details to follow, but JP, Josh M. and I doped some Si substrates with boron using a spin-on-glass.  It seems well known that heavily boron doped Si is more resistant to EDP etch than intrinsic or n-type material.  We went big and used the 3-slot SEPCON mask.

 

top down
top down
top down
top down

 

bottom side
bottom side

 

bottom up (close-up of previous)
bottom up (close-up of previous)
bottom at lattice and substrate intersection
bottom at lattice and substrate intersection
cross section
cross section
cross section
cross section

So at least some areas have a 200 nm thick remaining c-Si lattice.

Unfortunately, most of the wafer had no lattice on the chips and we only had about 10% with any lattice.  I don’t think any chips had a full lattice remaining under the window.

 

 

 

 

 

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