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Effect of Gas now Modulation on Etch Depth Uniformity for Plasma Etching of 150 mm GaAs Wafers  

정필구 (인제대학교 광대역정보통신학과)
임완태 (인제대학교 광대역정보통신학과)
조관식 (인제대학교 광공학과/나노응용기술연구소)
전민현 (인제대학교 광공학과/나노응용기술연구소)
임재영 (인제대학교 광공학과/나노응용기술연구소)
이제원 (인제대학교 광공학과/나노응용기술연구소)
조국산 ((주)클라이오텍)
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Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society / v.11, no.2, 2002 , pp. 113-118 More about this Journal
Abstract
We developed engineering methods to control gas flow in a plasma reactor in order to achieve good etch depth uniformity for large area GaAs etching. Finite difference numerical method was found quite useful for simulation of gas flow distribution in the reactor for dry etching of GaAs. The experimental results in $BCl_3/N_2/SF_6/He$ ICP plasmas confirmed that the simulated data fitted very well with real data. It is noticed that a focus ring could help improve both gas flow and etch uniformity for 150 mm diameter GaAs plasma etch processing. The simulation results showed that optimization of clamp configuration could decrease gas flow uniformity as low as $\pm$ 1.5% on an 100 mm(4 inch) GaAs wafer and $\pm$ 3% for a 150 m(6 inch) wafer with the fixed reactor and electrode, respectively. Comparison between simulated gas flow uniformity and real etch depth distribution data concluded that control of gas flow distribution in the chamber would be significantly important in order or achieve excellent dry etch uniformity of large area GaAs wafers.
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