XXV Международный симпозиум Нанофизика и наноэлектроника", Нижний Новгород, 9-12 марта 2021 г. Влияние добавки хлорпентафторэтана в составе хлорсодержащей плазмы на скорость и характеристики профиля травления арсенида галлия
In this work, the dependence of plasma-chemical etching rate and the roughness of the surface of gallium arsenide crater on chloropentafluoroethane (C2F5Cl) concentration in a mixture with chlorine, forward power and etching duration were studied. Characteristics of GaAs etching crater were studied by white light interferometry and scanning electron microscopy. It is shown that C2F5Cl addition in chlorine-containing inductively coupled plasma led to a nonlinear change of gallium arsenide etching rate with time which can be explained by passivation of substrate surface at the initial stage by products of freon decay. Along with this, characteristics of the etching profile of GaAs are significantly improved. Forward power increase contributes to development of roughness, while the etching rate increases nonlinearly.