Treffer: Towards wet anisotropic silicon etching of perfect pyramidal pits

Title:
Towards wet anisotropic silicon etching of perfect pyramidal pits
Source:
Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Micro- and Nano-Engineering, Barcelona, 17-20 September 2006Microelectronic engineering. 84(5-8):1419-1422
Publisher Information:
Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 2007.
Publication Year:
2007
Physical Description:
print, 6 ref
Original Material:
INIST-CNRS
Document Type:
Konferenz Conference Paper
File Description:
text
Language:
English
Author Affiliations:
Center for International Research on MicroMechatronics (CIRMM), Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan
ISSN:
0167-9317
Rights:
Copyright 2007 INIST-CNRS
CC BY 4.0
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Notes:
Electronics
Accession Number:
edscal.18807459
Database:
PASCAL Archive

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Wet anisotropic etching of sharp silicon cavities is a critical step in the fabrication of nanopores and scanning probe tips. This paper reports a straightforward method to reliably obtain sharp pyramidal cavities in (10 0) oriented silicon wafers from a relatively inaccurate mask fabricated with a conventional laser exposure system. The relative angular orientation of the mask patterns toward the crystallographic planes of silicon improves the sharpness of pyramidal etch pits. A trigonometric relation shows that the rotation of the mask squares up the etch patterns, which results in the sharpening of the pyramidal structures. This noticeable effect could be verified in (100)-silicon wafers etched in potassium hydroxide (KOH).