CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS
Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona

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Surface: 25 m2.
Class 10000 with class 1000 in the wet processing stations.

 

AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGIES

Wet etching of different materials
  • Bulk silicon micromachining (anisotropic wet etching)
  • Surface silicon micromachining
  • Metals: chromium, titanium, nickel, gold, aluminium
  • Glass etching
  • Other materials
Lift-off
Deposition of layers
  • Protection layers: wax, photoresist
  • Ni-P Electroless

 

LABORATORY EQUIPMENT

 
Wet etching and cleaning equipment
  • 4 benches for Silicon anisotropic wet etching with alkaline solutions: KOH, TMAH
  • 4 multipurpose benches: 2 for wafers with metals and 2 for wafers without metals
  • 2 overflow rinse tanks for wafer cleaning and 2 nitrogen guns for wafer drying
 
Small equipment
  • ultrasonic tank
  • gas cabinet
  • small spinner
  • scale, magnetic stirring…
  
Critical Point Dryer
  • Liquid CO2 flow
  • Critical conditions: temperature 32ºC and pressure 73 atm.
 
Test equipment
  • 1 optical microscope
  • 1 stereomicroscope
  • 1 Optical Imaging Profiler

AVAILABLE PROCESSES

  • Anisotropic wet etching of Silicon for bulk micromachining in alkaline solutions. The etching solutions used are KOH and TMAH. SiO2 and Si3N4 are used as mask layers during the etch. Four different etch-stop methods are available.



  • Surface micromachining of silicon. The process can be performed by wet etching in HF solutions as well as in HF vapours. A SiO2 layer is used as a sacrificial layer
  • Isotropic wet etching of silicon
  • Wet etching of metals: aluminium, chromium, titanium, nickel and gold
  • Isotropic wet etching of glass wafers
  • Lift-off
  • Other wet etching processes

  

CONTACT

Marta Duch ( Esta dirección electrónica esta protegida contra spambots. Es necesario activar Javascript para visualizarla )

  

 
Sede: Campus UAB. Cerdanyola del Vallès. Barcelona. E-08193 (Españ
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