Electrodeposition of nanometer-thick epitaxial films of silver onto single-crystal silicon wafers

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 1720-1725 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingzhi Chen ◽  
Jay A. Switzer

Silver films were deposited epitaxially for the first time onto low-index, single-crystal silicon wafers through an electrochemical method in an aqueous silver acetate bath.

Micromachines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 429
Author(s):  
Tengyun Liu ◽  
Peiqi Ge ◽  
Wenbo Bi

Lower warp is required for the single crystal silicon wafers sawn by a fixed diamond wire saw with the thinness of a silicon wafer. The residual stress in the surface layer of the silicon wafer is the primary reason for warp, which is generated by the phase transitions, elastic-plastic deformation, and non-uniform distribution of thermal energy during wire sawing. In this paper, an experiment of multi-wire sawing single crystal silicon is carried out, and the Raman spectra technique is used to detect the phase transitions and residual stress in the surface layer of the silicon wafers. Three different wire speeds are used to study the effect of wire speed on phase transition and residual stress of the silicon wafers. The experimental results indicate that amorphous silicon is generated during resin bonded diamond wire sawing, of which the Raman peaks are at 178.9 cm−1 and 468.5 cm−1. The ratio of the amorphous silicon surface area and the surface area of a single crystal silicon, and the depth of amorphous silicon layer increases with the increasing of wire speed. This indicates that more amorphous silicon is generated. There is both compressive stress and tensile stress on the surface layer of the silicon wafer. The residual tensile stress is between 0 and 200 MPa, and the compressive stress is between 0 and 300 MPa for the experimental results of this paper. Moreover, the residual stress increases with the increase of wire speed, indicating more amorphous silicon generated as well.


1981 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 365-371
Author(s):  
Glen A. Stone

This paper presents a new method to measure the thickness of very thin films on a substrate material using energy dispersive x-ray diffractometry. The method can be used for many film-substrate combinations. The specific application to be presented is the measurement of phosphosilicate glass films on single crystal silicon wafers.


1987 ◽  
Vol 115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andres Fernandez ◽  
P. Hren ◽  
K. C. Lee ◽  
J. Silcox

ABSTRACTSelf-supporting, thin single crystal membranes can be fabricated from silicon wafers using ion implantation, anodic etching and subsequent annealing. Typically, membranes approximately 1200Å thick and about 250μm in diameter are formed in wafers 4 mil thick. Discs surrounding the membranes can be cut out to provide suitable TEM samples. In this paper, the steps for preparing such samples are presented with as much attention paid to experimental details as possible.


2009 ◽  
Vol 2009.15 (0) ◽  
pp. 537-538
Author(s):  
Hiroshi NAKAMURA ◽  
Masayoshi MIYASAKA ◽  
Ryota YANAGIDA ◽  
Masayoshi TATENO

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