durusmail: mems-talk: Titanium Etchant
Titanium Etchant
2003-05-29
Titanium Etchant
Sukanta
2003-05-29
Dear Kris,
     You can use EDTA solution.
Take 5 gm EDTA salt+200 ml DI water=EDTA soln

then take 50 ml EDTA soln+10 ml H2O2+10 drops of Ammonia
soln(NH3)
heat at 40 degree centigrade and start etching......
it will take approximately 1 minutes

you can contact me for further infoprmations

sukanta


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>    1. Problem in gold wet etching by using KI/I2 mixture
>(Carmen)
>    2. Titanium Etchant (krishna)
>    3. RE: Titanium etch (Magali Brunet)
>    4. Re: Titanium etch (anupama@ee.washington.edu)
>    5. Re: Mask Aligner (R. Brent Garber)
>    6. Dry film photoresist for gray-scale lithography
>       (Fred C Thomas III)
>    7. RE: how long can Shipley 4620 survive in BHF (Bill
>Moffat)
>    8. RE: vapor phase anti-stiction coatings (Bill Moffat)
>    9. question regarding photolithography (sandhya sandhya)
>   10. RE: glass substrate (Garcia Mandayo, Gemma)
>   11. Photolithography alignment marks (Glen Landry)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 23:57:56 +0800
> From: Carmen 
>Subject: [mems-talk] Problem in gold wet etching by using KI/I2
>       mixture
>To: mems-talk@memsnet.org
>Message-ID: <3ED38B04.AF381264@acae.cuhk.edu.hk>
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>Dear all,
>
>I faced the problem when I tried to use a KI/I2 mixture to etch
>gold. I
>am going to pattern the Cr and Au layers on the silicon
>substrate, and I
>used thermal evaporator to deposit the Cr and then sputter to
>deposit
>the gold. After depositing the gold layer by using sputter, I
>used a
>KI/I2 mixture to etch the gold layer. After etching for about 10
>mins, I
>saw the gold was completely etched and there should be a shiny Cr
>layer
>under the gold layer after the wet etching. However, there is a
>cloudy
>thin film in light brown color appeared at the bottom of the gold
>layer
>and that layer cannot be etched in the gold etchant. I would like
>to
>know whether you have seen this problem before, and do you have
>any
>suggestion of the reason to cause this problem and what the layer
>is? Is
>that layer caused by some compound generated after the gold
>etching?
>Thank you very much!
>
>Best Regards,
>Carmen
>
>
>
>
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>
>Message: 2
>Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 09:19:11 -0700 (PDT)
> From: krishna 
>Subject: [mems-talk] Titanium Etchant
>To: General MEMS discussion 
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>Dear MEMS members,
>
>I am looking for an Ti etchant that can etch Ti which
>is 300A and should not attack Al underneath it.
>
>Please suggest me.
>Thanks
>Kris
>
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>Message: 3
>Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 18:20:51 +0100
> From: "Magali Brunet" 
>Subject: RE: [mems-talk] Titanium etch
>To: ,  "General MEMS discussion"
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>Hi Mahdu,
>
>Try dilute HF (1: 40). On the wafers that I have, there are NiFe
>structures,
>I etch 200 Angstrom of Titanium around these structures and the
>NiFe is not
>affected by the etch (around 20 seconds)
>
>Best of luck
>
>Magali
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>-----Original Message-----
> From: mems-talk-bounces@memsnet.org
>[mailto:mems-talk-bounces@memsnet.org]On Behalf Of madhulika
>sathe
>Sent: 23 May 2003 17:42
>To: mems-talk@memsnet.org
>Subject: [mems-talk] Titanium etch
>
>
>
>I am looking for an etch for Titanium that does not affect the
>following:
>
>1:Nickel
>2:Iron
>
>Any help in this regard would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Madhu
>LSU
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>Message: 4
>Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 11:11:00 -0700
> From: anupama@ee.washington.edu
>Subject: Re: [mems-talk] Titanium etch
>To: madhulika_sathe@eudoramail.com,   General MEMS discussion
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>Hi Madhu
>
>I use 10:1 BOE (Buffered Oxide etch) to etch Titanium, the
>etch rate for sputtered Ti is 11kA/min. I use evaporated Ti
>& my etch rate is roughly half of that.
>
>I do not have information for Fe & Nickel, but since 10:1
>BOE is fairly commonly available in most labs you might want
>to determine the etch rates. Overall 10:1 BOE gives me good
>& uniform results for Ti etching
>
>Good Luck
>
>Anupama
>
>
>
>
> > I am looking for an etch for Titanium that does not affect
> > the following:
> >
> > 1:Nickel
> > 2:Iron
> >
> > Any help in this regard would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Madhu
> > LSU
> >
> >
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>Anupama V. Govindarajan
>Graduate Student - EE MEMS laboratory
>Department of Electrical Engineering
>University of Washington
>Campus Box 352500, Seattle WA 98195
>Phone: (206)-221-5340
>email: anupama@ee.washington.edu
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>Message: 5
>Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 15:25:29 -0400
> From: "R. Brent Garber" 
>Subject: Re: [mems-talk] Mask Aligner
>To: General MEMS discussion 
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>Sreemanth,
>
>I had Suss MicroTec make a few custom 3" chucks for about $1100
>each.
>They can be reached at 1-800-683-7877
>
>Brent
>
>Sreemanth M Uppuluri wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I am looking for a vacuum chuck similar to the one found in
>mask aligners
> > for performing contact lithography experiments. Please let me
>know if
> > anyone has some information regarding it.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Sreemanth
> >
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> > School of Mechanical Engineering
> > Purdue University
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>Message: 6
>Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 14:00:23 -0600
> From: "Fred C Thomas III" 
>Subject: [mems-talk] Dry film photoresist for gray-scale
>lithography
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>I am looking for a 10-50 micron thick, g-line, negative dry film
>resist that has low contrast or is processable such that it's
>apparent contrast is low enough such that gray-scale lithography
>can be implemented with it. Does anyone know of such a dry
>film?
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>Message: 7
>Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 15:17:15 -0700
> From: "Bill Moffat" 
>Subject: RE: [mems-talk] how long can Shipley 4620 survive in
>BHF
>To: "General MEMS discussion" 
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>Bobo,
>      It depends upon the pretreatment of the surface before the
>Shipley is applied.  As an example if I used a bake plus a later
>HMDS treatment about 15 minutes was the maximum.  I was etching
>17,000 Angstroms of Sio2.  With a vacuum vapor prime treatment it
>seemed to be limitless.  Bill Moffat.
>
>-----Original Message-----
> From: bobo [mailto:xuemengchen@mail.sim.ac.cn]
>Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 1:44 AM
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>Subject: [mems-talk] how long can Shipley 4620 survive in BHF
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>Hi, everyone,
>
>who knows how long can Shipley 4620 survive in BHF whithout be
>peel off? Thanks
>
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>Message: 8
>Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 15:24:22 -0700
> From: "Bill Moffat" 
>Subject: RE: [mems-talk] vapor phase anti-stiction coatings
>To: "General MEMS discussion" 
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>Dave,
>      Contact me directly if possible.  We are doing a variety of
>anti stiction, surface tension modification systems.  Some are
>based on variations of the old HMDS system, some are plasma, we
>have also done plasma silane deposition.  Bill Moffat Yield
>Engineering Systems.
>
>-----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Kharas [mailto:dave_kharas@yahoo.com]
>Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 8:16 AM
>To: mems-talk@memsnet.org
>Subject: [mems-talk] vapor phase anti-stiction coatings
>
>
>Hi all,
>I was wondering if people are aware of a good
>vapor phase anti-stiction coating that can
>be applied to previously released devices, at a
>relatively low temperature around 100C.
>I am aware of some work at Berkeley, applying
>DDMS and FDTS from a water plasma.
>Are there commercial systems available?
>At one point I thought I saw a post from Yield
>Engineering about a system used on the TI DMD.
>Is this approach similar to HMDS wafer priming?
>ADI patent info and perusal through a Gelest catalog
>suggests that they applied a rather bulky looking
>Siloxane prior to packaging. Has anyone else had
>experience with this?
>
>Thanks in advance for your feedback.
>
>Regards,
>
>Dave Kharas Ph.D.
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>Message: 9
>Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 15:33:09 -0700 (PDT)
> From: sandhya sandhya 
>Subject: [mems-talk] question regarding photolithography
>To: mems-talk@memsnet.org
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>Hai all,
>I am Sandhya,a research student In Boise State University. I have
>a question regarding photolithography, I am getting striations
>and small bubbles in the resist after spinning and i am using SPR
>220.7 resist. Can someone please kindly say me what might be
>causing it and what should i do for eliminating them.
>Sincerely
>Research student
>Sandhya Reddy
>
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>Message: 10
>Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 09:54:50 +0200
> From: "Garcia Mandayo, Gemma" 
>Subject: RE: [mems-talk] glass substrate
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>I would like to know a glass substrate vendor located in Spain
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>Message: 11
>Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 09:09:39 -0400
> From: Glen Landry 
>Subject: [mems-talk] Photolithography alignment marks
>To: mems-talk@memsnet.org
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>I am looking for other people's ideas for alignment marks.  I am
>using a
>Karl Suss MJB3 aligner and I want at least 0.5 micron accuracy.
>The marks
>I am using consist of a ~100micron feature for rough alignment,
>and then a
>vernier.  The vernier consists of five rectangles, 2 microns
>wide, and
>separated by 5 microns.  The rectangles on the second mask are
>separated by
>5.5 microns in such a way that when alignment is correct, the
>center
>rectangles align.  When alignment is 0.5micron off, the rectangle
>one from
>center is aligned.  It looks like this (excuse the crude
>drawing):
>
>    O     O     O     O     O       base vernier
>O      O      O      O       O    top vernier (aligned)
>
>These marks can get me to better than 0.5micron, but I have to
>almost be in
>vacuum contact before I can see my alignment clearly.  I have
>thought of
>better alignment marks, but at $600/mask I want to get it right
>the first
>time.  I am wondering if it would work better if the top marks
>were
>larger/smaller than the bottom marks (I am using a dark field
>mask) or if I
>would still be able to get as good of an alignment if my marks
>were say
>5microns wide so I could see through them without being in very
>close
>contact.  If anyone has a CAD/PDF design of marks that work for
>them,
>please e-mail me.  Thanks.
>
>Glen Landry
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