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How to clean Si wafer with Cr/Au before anodic bo nding
RE: RE: [mems-talk] How to clean Si wafer with Cr/Au before anodic bo nding
2002-10-01
How to clean Si wafer with Cr/Au before anodic bo nding
kirt_williams@agilent.com
2002-09-30
> I would like to bond Si and pyrex wafer together by anodic
> bonding.  My Si wafer has some trenches which the bottom is
> covered by a 200A Cr/ 500A Au.  How can I clean this Si wafer
> before anodic bonding?  Can I do RCA SC1 clean
> (water+H2O2+Ammonia solution) to remove organic
> contaminations, without the RCA SC2 clean (water+H2O2+HCl),
> which remove the metallic contaminations?

You can do a Piranha clean (H2SO4 + H2O2, 120 C) for 5 minutes.
In our experiments with different gold samples (with chromium adhesion layer),
one was not etched at all and the other was roughened slightly.

        --Kirt Williams Agilent Technologies


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