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Etching through a silicon wafer
Etching through a silicon wafer
Michael D Martin
2002-04-10
I have had problems with deadhesion of Ti/Pt in TMAH. That is the Pt
came off! I would not be surprised if Au behaves similarly, unless I had
a sputtering problem.

-Mike

>>> ygfff@mizzou.edu 04/09/02 03:09PM >>>
Dear all,

I plan to use anisotropic wet etching to etch through holes in a
<100>silicon
wafer, using LPCVD silicon nitride as mask layer,
also there is a exposed Ti/Au layer(Ti act as a adhesion layer)
on top of silicon nitride.
My concern is:

1. Will Ti/Au layer resist the long time KOH etching?
2. If KOH doesn't work, will other etchants like TMAH do?
3. Will KOH etching damage the silicon nitride membrane?

Thank you very much!

Yuanfang Gao

University of Missouri
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