A Study on the Micro-lapping process of Sapphire Wafers for optoelectronic devices

광반도체용 사파이어웨이퍼 기계연마특성 연구

The sapphire wafers for blue light emitting devices were manufactured by the implementation of the surface machining technology based on micro-tribology. This process has been performed by Micro-lapping process. The sapphire crystalline wafers were characterized by DCXD(Double Crystal X-ray Diffraction). The sample quality of crystalline sapphire wafer at surface has a FWHM(Full Width at Half Maximum) of 250 arcsec. This value at the sapphire wafer surfaces indicated 0.12${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ sizes. Surfaces of sapphire wafers were mechanically affected by residual stress and surface default. Also Surfaces roughness of sapphire wafers were measured 2.1 by AFM(Atom Force Microscope).