WANG Xu-di, XU Xiang-dong, LIU Ying, HONG Yi-lin, FU Shao-jun. Ion beam etching of HfO<SUB>2</SUB> film[J]. Editorial Office of Optics and Precision Engineering, 2004,(5): 454-458
WANG Xu-di, XU Xiang-dong, LIU Ying, HONG Yi-lin, FU Shao-jun. Ion beam etching of HfO<SUB>2</SUB> film[J]. Editorial Office of Optics and Precision Engineering, 2004,(5): 454-458DOI:
film and AZ1350 photoresisit mask were investigated in argon. The etch rate and mechanisms were measured and analyzed as a function of ion energy
ion beam density and ion incidence angle. The equations of etch rate versus such parameters were developed by the least-square-fit. The fidelity pattern transfer of mask and substrate were analyzed with the etching depth. The surface quality before and after etching were examined with AFM tapping mode. The details of etch rate have been interpreted in terms of mechanism of etching. The results show that etch rate has linear dependence on square root ion energy and ion density and varies versus incidence angle. Compared with the unetched substrate the etching process slightly lowers RMS roughness and the fidelity pattern transfer degrades with the etched depth on HfO
2
film as a result of poor selectivity towards photoresisit. So it is necessary to improve the selectivity to achieve high fidelity pattern transfer. These results have been applied in the fabrication of HfO
2
/SiO
2
multiplayer diffractive grating patterns.
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