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1.
SU-8 as resist material for deep X-ray lithography 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
A new negative tone resist for deep X-ray lithography is presented. This resist is a nine parts to one mixture of the EPON
SU-8 resin with 2,2-bis-(3,5-dichloro-4-hydroxyphenyl)propane (Tetrachlorobisphenol A, TCBA), the latter acting as the photoinitiator.
The resist was irradiated at the synchrotron source of DCI at LURE. It was dried for 7 to 20 days beforehand over silica gel
while under a light vacuum (20 mbar). Best results for a 150 μm high resist were obtained with a X-ray bottom dose of 3 kJ cm−3 and a post exposure bake at 33 °C.
Differential Scanning Calorimetry measurements (DSC) determined the glass transition temperature of the resist. The glass
transition for the undried, loose resist was 34.7 °C, and it was 28.7 °C when the resist was pressed on a silicon substrate.
For a sample of the dried resist, the glass transition was 33.4 °C for the loose resist and 29.8 °C when it was pressed on
a Silicon substrate.
CD measurements were made on top surface of a set of 100 μm long columns structures, which were produced in 150 μm of this
resist. These structures have a constant 100 μm pitch, and the structures themselves varied in width from 20 to 17 μm. For
these structures, the CD was calculated to be 0.15 ± 0.03 μm.
Received: 8 February 2000/Accepted: 3 March 2000 相似文献
2.
One major process step in deep X-ray lithography is the exposure of the resist with synchrotron radiation. High energy photons
are absorbed in mask, resist and substrate. About 95% of this energy is deposited as thermal heat [Schweizer (1997)]. This
may lead to a temperature rise in the system and result in thermal distortions during the patterning process. A sample layout
is used to determine the distortions during irradiation. Typical radiation parameters of the ELSA storage ring at Bonn University
(2.7 GeV, 35 mA) and material properties are applied to simulate the heat effects. Mask membranes made of titanium or beryllium
are modeled to irradiate PMMA layers of 200 and 2500 μm thickness. Copper is used as substrate material. Mask support and
the bottom of the substrate are cooled to 21 °C as the system is scanned through the synchrotron beam. In the case of 200
μm PMMA and titanium mask membranes, mask temperatures increase to 40.1 °C, whereas only 22.3 °C are reached if beryllium
masks are simulated. Maximum distortions are 0.74 μm for Ti-masks and 0.03 μm for Be-masks. With increasing resist thickness,
the incident synchrotron radiation power as well as the temperature rise are reduced. In the case of 2500 μm thick PMMA, temperatures
of 21.45 °C are simulated.
Received: 10 August 2001/Accepted: 24 September 2001
This paper was presented at the Fourth International Workshop on High Aspect Ratio Microstructure Technology HARMST 2001
in June 2001. 相似文献
3.
We fabricated thick (5 μm) tungsten (W) film patterns by sputtering and dry etching, and realized a new deep X-ray lithography
mask. The X-ray mask with 5-μm-thick W absorbers could expose about 1-mm-thick resist structures. In the deposition process
of W films, the column structure of about 0.2 μm grain size, from which pattern edge roughness originates, disappeared by
adding nitrogen into the sputtering gas. W film etching was carried out by reducing gas pressure and cooling the substrate
(−40 °C), and a side etch width of below 0.2 μm was obtained. From the results of the pattern edge roughness and the side
etch width, a pattern fabrication accuracy below ±0.5 μm was achieved. Furthermore, film stress, which induces pattern distortion,
was reduced to below 50 MPa by controlling the sputtering gas pressure. The obtained mask achieved a pattern distortion below
±0.3 μm.
Received: 7 July 1999/Accepted: 29 May 2000 相似文献
4.
A new technology called 3D UV-Microforming consisting of an advanced resist preparation process, a UV lithographic step,
resist development, a moulding procedure by electrodeposition, and finally stripping and cleaning for finishing the structures
was developed for application in microsystem technology. It enables the low-cost fabrication of a wide variety of micro components
for many different users.
During resist preparation, layers up to two hundred μm thickness were obtained until now. By using a standard UV mask aligner
as an exposure tool followed by immersion development, thick resist layers up to 100 μm could be patterned in a single step
on pre-processed silicon wafers. Repeated exposure and development were successfully used for structuring resist layers of
up to 200 μm thickness. High aspect ratios of more than 10 as well as steep edges of more than 88° could be fabricated.
The resist patterns were moulded by using pulse or DC electroplating. For microsystem applications some metals and alloys
were deposited, Three-dimensional micro components were fabricated as demonstrators for the new technique. It allows the use
of materials with interesting properties which could not be provided by standard processes.
Received: 30 October 1995 / Accepted: 9 December 1995 相似文献
5.
LIGA-structures are known to have a lateral dimensional precision of 1 μm and below. These specifications strongly depend
on the process parameters. Fabrication of 400 μm tall nickel LIGA-structures by electroplating of X-ray patterned (DXRL) resist
structures revealed much higher distortions. These are caused on the one hand by thermal expansion of the structured resist
since the electroforming is usually performed at 52 °C, but on the other hand to a higher degree by swelling of the resist
in the aqueous electroplating bath. Reducing the electrolyte temperature not only eliminates the thermal expansion but also
particularly reduces the swelling. At room temperature the latter is reduced by a factor of 3 in comparison to the usual 52
°C-bath leading to an overall reduction of the deformation of up to 80%. In this paper the experimental data are presented
and the results are explained. Furthermore first microstructures electroplated at room temperature with optimized precision
are shown. 相似文献
6.
Cyanate ester based resin systems for snap-cure applications 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Resin compositions comprising cyanate ester have been demonstrated to be useful as die attach adhesives, underfills and encapsulants,
where the characteristics of the resins can be varied in a wide range by copolymerization with functionalized comonomers such
as epoxies, phenols, rubbers, thermoplastics and others. To reach a combination of properties such as long pot life, short
cure time and high glass transition temperature, we encapsulated small particles of effective hardeners to make them insoluble
and non-reactive when mixed with the resin at room temperature. Pot lifes of more than 3 months could be reached, whereas
the same cyanate ester gels and becomes solid within 30 min at room temperature, if the neat hardener is used instead of the
capsules. At a certain elevated temperature, which mainly depends on the structure of the hardener, the capsules open and
the curing reaction starts immediately. Low-temperature systems with cure times less than 5 min at 80 °C reach glass temperatures
of about 140 °C, and a glass transition temperature of 220 °C after 10 s cure can be achieved with another combination. The
developed snap cure resin systems can be easily mixed with a lot of common additives such as minerals, tougheners, metallic
powders and others to cover a wide range of performance characteristics for use as adhesives, underfills, encapsulants and
the like.
Received: 15 May 2001/Accepted: 15 October 2001 相似文献
7.
A novel flip-chip assembly technique by means of electroplating at a low processing temperature has been developed. Mesoscopic
gears, made of nickel with 1500 μm in diameter and 250 μm in height, have been bonded to glass substrate. The bonding process
is conducted by nickel electroplating at 50 °C with a current density at 53.3 A/m2. The nickel electrolyte is found to penetrate about 100 μm from the perimeter to the center of the gear and form a good bond.
This process can be applied to the integration of high-aspect-ratio microstructures with substrates that have pre-fabricated
microelectronics massively and in parallel. As such, it provides a powerful way to achieve the integration of meso- and microscopic
electromechanical systems.
Received: 7 July 1999/Accepted: 30 June 2000 相似文献
8.
G. Faggio M. Marinelli G. Messina E. Milani A. Paoletti S. Santangelo G. Verona Rinati 《Microsystem Technologies》1999,6(1):23-29
A detailed structural characterisation of synthetic diamond films, previously investigated as UV photodetectors, has been
carried out by SEM, X-ray diffraction, catholuminescence (CL), micro-Raman spectroscopy and micro-photoluminescence. The films
were deposited by microwave plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition using a CH4–CO2 gas mixture. The effect of a systematic change of the methane concentration on film morphology, preferential orientation
and crystal quality has been investigated at two different substrate temperatures, 750°C and 850°C. A strong decrease of both
band-A CL and width of the diamond Raman line at 1332 cm-1 has been observed, at lower substrate temperature, going towards (1 0 0) texturing, consistent with the attribution of band-A
luminescence to the presence of structural defects such as dislocations. A strong correlation between methane-induced texturing
and UV detector performance has been evidenced: poorly oriented films exhibit a better UV photoresponse than highly textured
films. Raman and luminescence measurements suggest that the limiting factor for the detector performance is related, rather
than to structural defects to centres of different nature, whose density strongly depends on the sample preferential orientation.
Received: 30 March 1999/Accepted: 12 April 1999 相似文献
9.
We have carried out micromachining of Teflon-polymers such as PTFE, PFA and FEP as well as optical crystal such as NaCl and
LiF by synchrotron radiation direct (without any chemicals) photo-etching and succeeded in creating microstructures with very
high aspect ratios. The maximum aspect-ratio achieved was 50 and the maximum processing depth was 1500 microns. Dependence
of the etching rate on the synchrotron beam current and on the substrate temperature was studied. Based on the study, we could
use only x-rays from the synchrotron radiation so as to apply x-ray lithography technology (such as using an x-ray mask and
processing in He atmosphere) to our process. A rise in the sample temperature results in significant enhancement of the etching
rate. The etching rate measured was on the order of a few 100 μm/min. So that this process is much faster than hard x-ray
deep lithography for the processing of more than 100 μm deep microstructures.
Received: 25 August 1997/Accepted: 23 October 1997 相似文献
10.
Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is a commercially available physically and chemically stable photocurable silicone rubber which
has a unique flexibility (G≈250 kPa) at room temperature. Further properties of PDMS are a low elasticity change versus temperature (1.1 kPa/°C), no
elasticity change versus frequency and a high compressibility. PDMS is an interesting polymer to be used as spring material
in micromechanical sensors such as accelerometers. The spring constant of the PDMS structures was theoretically calculated
and measurements were done on accelerometers with PDMS springs to validate the theory. The measured and calculated spring
constants showed a good correspondence, so the measurement results showed that the PDMS structures can successfully be used
as mechanical springs.
Received: 29 October 1996 / Accepted: 13 November 1996 相似文献
11.
High-power electrostatic microactuators using LIGA process have been fabricated. Comb drive type actuators and a wobble motor
were designed and fabricated. A basic structure of the microactuators was composed of movable and fixed electrodes of Ni,
a sacrificial layer of SiO2 and a Si substrate, and carried out by one mask process. As design rules, a minimum resist width of 2 μm, resist height of
120 μm, maximum width of movable parts of 10 μm, minimum width of fixed parts of 40 μm and driving voltage of about 100 V,
were decided. A 120 μm-thick PMMA resist was formed on a Si substrate by a casting method. The PMMA was exposed using a compact
SR source “AURORA”, using an X-ray mask with 7 μm-thick Au absorber on a 2 μm-thick poly-Si membrane. The exposed PMMA was
developed by a developer. Ni microstructures with 100 μm-height, 2 μm-minimum width, 2 μm-minimum gap, and then maximum aspect
ratio of 50, were made by electroforming. Ni microstructures used for movable electrodes were separated from the substrate
by lateral etching of SiO2. After lateral etching of SiO2, Au wires were bonded to electrodes. Actuation of the comb drive type actuator and rotation of the wobble motor were confirmed.
The applied voltage to the comb drive actuator and the wobble motor were 65 and 125 V. 相似文献
12.
S. M. Popov V. V. Voloshin I. L. Vorobyov G. A. Ivanov A. O. Kolosovskii V. A. Isaev Y. K. Chamorovskii 《Optical Memory & Neural Networks》2012,21(1):45-51
Temperature band of ordinary telecommunication optical fibers is −60...85°C. The developing fiber optic sensors which can
work at higher temperatures, required to develop metal coated optical fibers. The Purpose of the work is a researching additional
optical loss of copper alloy coated optical fibers which were drawn from low hydroxyl group contamination preforms at temperatures
20...800°C. It is reached that metal coated optical fiber worked at temperature 700°C for 7 hours, while the optical losses
changed from 2 to 3 dB/km at the wavelength of λ = 1300 nm. It is not observed intensive growth of optical losses on hydroxyl
groups at 800°C, which was observed in metal coated optical fiber when it was heated at 700°C. 相似文献
13.
Proton beam micromachining (PBM) has been shown to be a powerful technique to produce three-dimensional (3D) high-aspect-ratio
microstructures (Watt et al., 2000). Potential commercial applications of PBM, which is a fast direct write technique, will
become feasible if the fabrication of metallic molds or stamps is realised. Metallic components can be produced by electroplating
a master from a microstructure produced in resist. The production of high-aspect-ratio metallic stamps and molds requires
a lithographic technique capable of producing smooth and near 90° sidewalls and a one to one conversion of a resist structure
to a metallic microstructure. PBM is the only technique capable of producing high-aspect-ratio microstructures with sub-micron
details via a direct write process. In PBM, SU-8 (Lorenz et al., 1997) resist structures are produced by exposing the SU-8
resist with a focused MeV proton beam followed by chemical development and a subsequent electroplating step using Ni or Cu.
The data presented shows that PBM can successfully produce high-aspect-ratio, sub-micron sized smooth metallic structures
with near 90° sidewall profiles.
Received: 10 August 2001/Accepted: 24 September 2001 相似文献
14.
Assembling hybrid integrated micro-optical modules for mono-mode applications requires alignment tolerances better than ±1 μm
which, so far, were achieved by complex active alignment of the micro-optical components. This article describes a passive
assembly concept employing high-precision LIGA structures to simplify assembly and reduce manufacturing costs. The advantages
of this passive assembly concept are demonstrated in the micro-optical assembly of a heterodyne receiver. The micro-optical
components (ball microlenses, prisms, glass fibers, photodiodes) were aligned passively by means of alignment structures made
of PMMA, and were subsequently fixed by UV-curing adhesive. Photodiodes were additionally contacted with electrically conducting
adhesive cured at 70 °C. The mono-mode glass fibers were mounted in fiber mounts into the fiber grooves of which the glass
fibers were inserted and immobilized with UV-curing adhesive. Measurements of the optical quality of the heterodyne receiver
indicated an accuracy of assembly better than 1 μm.
Received: 3 January 2000/Accepted: 9 February 2000 相似文献
15.
In this work first commercially available SiC-transistor prototypes were tested with regard to their applicability in high
temperature electronic circuits for sensor signal conditioning.
The influence of the temperature on the device behaviour (drain-saturation current, gate leakage current, I–V-characteristics, long-term effects) was investigated. The devices showed reliable operation up to 450 °C. The maximum forward
transconductance g
m
and the short circuit drain source current I
DSS
decreased to approximately 30% of the room temperature values. Also, a slight increase of the pinch-off voltage V
p
was observed. The gate leakage current I
GSS
rose with temperature, staying below 1 μA at 450 °C. A pre-ageing study was carried out to verify changes in the device characteristics
with time. The devices were exposed to a 270 °C environment and it was observed that the DC parameters tend to stabilise after
about 100 h.
From the I–V-characteristics the SPICE parameters were extracted for a series of temperatures, allowing the design and optimisation of
amplifier gain stages. The SPICE device simulation results are in good agreement with the measured characteristics.
Received: 28 November 1996/Accepted: 2 December 1996 相似文献
16.
A microvalve matrix is proposed for controlling gas flow. Mircovalves in the matrix are controlled independently and each
one handles a very small gas flow. The microvalve matrix can thus control gas flows precisely in very small steps, over the
range from zero flow to fully-open flow, by digitally opening and closing the appropriate number of microvalves. The microvalve
proposed for this matrix has a compact and simple design for a high degree of integration. This valve is normally closed and
is opened by using the deformation of the port caused by the piezoelectric effect. Calculations show that a microvalve smaller
than 1×1 mm can handle a maximum gas flow rate of the order of 10-4 Pa m3/s (Air, 20 °C). It is easy to reduce the flow rate. Therefore these results indicate that a microvalve matrix can achieve
wide dynamic-range flow-control in small flow steps.
Received: 1 November 1996/Accepted: 14 November 1996 相似文献
17.
Low-temperature anodic bonding of silicon to silicon wafers by means of intermediate glass layers 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
A. Gerlach D. Maas D. Seidel H. Bartuch S. Schundau K. Kaschlik 《Microsystem Technologies》1999,5(3):144-149
Silicon wafers have been anodically bonded to sputtered lithium borosilicate glass layers (Itb 1060) at temperatures as low
as 150–180 °C and to sputtered Corning 7740 glass layers at 400 °C. Dependent on the thickness of the glass layer and the
sputtering rate, the sputtered glass layers incorporate compressive stresses which cause the wafer to bow. As a result of
this bowing, no anodic bond can be established especially along the edges of the silicon wafer. Successful anodic bonding
not only requires plane surfaces, but also is determined very much by the alkali concentration in the glass layer. The concentration
of alkali ions as measured by EDX and SNMS depends on both the sputtering rate and the oxygen fraction in the argon process
gas. In Itb 1060 layers produced at a sputtering rate of 0.2 nm/s, and in Corning 7740 layers produced at sputtering rates
of 0.03 and 0.5 nm/s, respectively, the concentration of alkali ions in the glass layers was sufficiently high, at oxygen
partial pressures below 10-4 Pa, to achieve anodic bonding. High-frequency ultrasonic microanalysis allowed the bonding area to be examined non-destructively.
Tensile strengths between 4 and 14 MPa were measured in subsequent destructive tensile tests of single-bonded specimens. 相似文献
18.
In the deep X-ray lithography process adhesion of resist structures on metallic coated substrate is strongly correlated with
the spectral distribution of the radiation. At ELETTRA the bending magnet radiation spectrum extends up to 20 keV which can
severely increase the secondary radiation process from the metal coated resist substrate, especially when the deep lithography
process is used for mask replication involving lower resist and absorber thicknesses. To reduce the proportion of high energy
photons in the radiation spectrum the central part of the beam is blocked by a beam-stop acting as a low energy band-pass
filter. The results of the first expositions at ELETTRA using different size beam-stops are presented and discussed.
Received: 10 August 2001/Accepted: 24 September 2001 相似文献
19.
In large areas of micro hot embossing, process temperature plays a critical role to both the local-area fidelity and global
uniformity of microstructure formation. Higher embossing temperature could improve structure fidelity, however, at the expense
of demoulding easiness. Micro embossing at the lowest possible temperature with acceptable fidelity can improve global flatness
after demoulding. This study focuses on polymer deformation and recovery in micro embossing when the process temperature is
below the polymer glass transition temperature (Tg). PMMA (Polymethyl Methacrylate) substrates (Tg = 105°C) were employed with the process temperature ranging from 25°C to its Tg. At temperature below Tg −55°C, significant recovery occurred after processing, but permanent structures could still be formed with sufficiently
high applied stress. With an increase in temperature, plastic deformation increased and was the dominant polymer deformation
mode for permanent cavities formation. However, the formation of protrusive structures was not complete since there was little
polymer flow. The polymer will lose its storage modulus at an even higher temperature and microstructures could be formed
with high fidelity. A compromise between local fidelity of embossed patterns and global flatness of substrate has to be reached
in micro hot embossing. 相似文献
20.
Silicon hotplates for metal oxide gas sensor elements 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Low-power-consumption metal oxide gas sensors and gas sensor arrays can be produced by combining micromachining and thin-film
technologies. In the present paper the state-of-the art in this field is reviewed. In the first part the problem of thermal
losses from a heated metal oxide film is addressed and the necessity of miniaturisation of gas sensing devices is pointed
out. The thermal properties of realized silicon hotplates are compared and analysed with respect to thermal equivalent circuit
models. In addition, the results of accelerated thermal ageing tests are presented. These latter results demonstrate that
micromachined heater elements are likely to exhibit device lifetimes of the order of 30 years when operated at membrane temperatures
around 400 °C. In the second part of the paper attention is drawn to novel methods of gas detection which are enabled by employing
stacks of different thin film materials on micromachined hotplates. In this context, recent results on temperature-and field-effect
modulated gas detection experiments are discussed.
Received: 16 May 1997 / Accepted: 22 May 1997 相似文献