Plasma Technology

WHITE PAPERS

(2009) Si / deep Si Etching (1.4 MB)
(2009) SiO2/ deep SiO2 Etching (1.2 MB)
(2010) ICP - PECVD (0.8 MB)
(2010) Ion Beam Deposition (0.3 MB)
(2010) InP Etching (4 MB)
(2011) Pt ALD (0.6 MB)
(2011) Nanoscale Etching with ICP plasmas (1.5 MB)
(2011) Al2O3 PECVD for solar cells (0.2 MB)

Process News Sep 2011 (2.4 MB)
incl
Introducing the PlasmaPro Estrelas100 deep Si etcher
Conformal ALD layers grown with AAO templates and Carbon Nanotubes (CNT)
Fabrication of Etched GaN Nanorods
Development of the Multiwafer Production Epitaxial Growth Process in Prototype HVPE
   system for 100-350 µm Thick GaN on Sapphire
Materials and Etches for Nanowire Biosensors
Remote Plasma ALD of ZnO for Thin Film Electronic Applications
Advances in Large Batch Gallium Nitride Etching Process for LED Production Solutions

Posters 2011
Conformal ALD layers grown with AAO templates and Carbon Nanotubes
by remote plasma and thermal ALD
(3.6 MB)
Advances in Large Batch Gallium Nitride Etching Process for
9th International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS-9)
LED Production Solutions (1.2 MB)

Process News May 2011 (2 MB)
incl
Development of GaN etching in the PlasmaPro NGP1000 System
Plasma etching of high-resolution features in a fullerene molecular resist
ALD of magnetic materials used for the synthesis of nanotubes
Deposition of Al2O3 film for potential application to surface passivation of solar cells
HIT solar cell development at Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE)
Nanoscale etching in Oxford Instruments ICP systems

Process News Oct 2010 (2.1 MB)
incl
Introducing the NGP1000 PLASMA Next Generation Plasma System
Oxford Instruments participates in PV developments
450mm is coming !
Challenges for Atomic Layer Deposition for CMOS devices with high mobility channel materials
Low Damage Plasma Nanofabrication for 10 nm Gate-length III-V High Electron Mobility Transistors
Developments in PSS for HBLED
Cryogenic Etching of Nanoscale Silicon Trenches
ICP dry etching of high-resolution patterns in GaN

Posters 2010
Preliminary investigation of high-k materials (1.6 MB)
Nucleation and growth of platinum films on high-kmetal (1.7 MB)
Temperature control of multiple wafers during etching of 2” Sapphire wafers for Patterned Sapphire Substrates (PSS) (1.4 MB)
Characterization and comparison of fused silica etch processes in fluorocarbon based ICP chemistries (1.7 MB)
Ion Beam Milling using SIMS monitoring/ control and RIBE profile control of optoelectronic devices (3.7 MB)
Nano-scale Silicon Pattern Transfer Using Cryogenic SF6/O2 Chemistry and Polymer Resist Masks (3 MB)

Process News May 2010 (1.7 MB)
incl
Fabrication of Advanced Photonics Integrated Circuits (TU Eindhoven)
Reaction Mechanisms during plasma assisted ALD (TU Eindhoven)
Fabrication of Photonic Structures in LiNbO3 crystals (Uni Bristol)
Ion Beam Etching using SIMS

Process News April 2009 (1.5 MB)
incl
Al2O3 ALD for the passivation of solar cells
wafer temperature in batch processing
low temperature deep Si etching update
HBLED etching update

Process News Sep 2009 (1.7 MB)
incl
C Nanotubes and Si Nanowires for Microelectronics (IMEC)
Conformal Coating of C Nanotubes
Etching Si Nanoscale Structures (Caltech)
Optical Emission End Point Detection

Process News April 2009 (1.5 MB)
incl
Al2O3 ALD for the passivation of solar cells
wafer temperature in batch processing
low temperature deep Si etching update
HBLED etching update

Process News September 2008 (2 MB)
incl
High Brightness LED update
MEMS - Si Micro Needles
Hydride Vapour Phase Epitaxy (HVPE)
ICP PECVD update
High Quality Optical Coatings by Ion Beam Deposition
TCO Magnetron Sputtering for Photovoltaics: ITO
Reactive Ion Beam Etching of Slanted Gratings in SiO2
ALD of ultrathin SiN films
Notch Free Silicon on Insulator Etching
Carbon Nanotube Growth update
Wafer Temperature

Posters 2008
SiN - SiO ALD (500 kB)
High quality patterns produced by nanoimprint lithography and inductive coupled plasma etching (2.6 MB)
Silicon Etch Process Options for Micro- and Nanotechnology using Inductively Coupled Plasmas (1.7 MB)
Choice of Silicon Etch Processes for Opto- and Microelectronic Device Fabrication using Inductively Coupled Plasmas (900 kB)
Silicon Etch Process Options for Micro- and Nanotechnology using Inductively Coupled Plasmas with AMO (1.5 MB)

May 2007
ICP Etching Processes for Nanoimprint Lithograhy (146 kB)
plasma ALD of Al2O3, TiN,HfO2, Ru (625 kB)
Properties of low temperatures oxide films by remote plasma ALD (304 kB)
New Advances in PECVD (178 kB)
MBE: Graded Base InGaP/InGaAs/GaAs HBT growth with a GaP decomposition source (1.2 MB)

Aug 2006: remote plasma ALD introduction
introduction by by Erwin Kessels, TU Eindhoven (600 kB)
introduction note by Steve Rossnagel, IBM (88 kB)
introduction note by Hyeongtag Jeon, Hanyang University of Seoul (33 KB)

Plasma News May 2005 (225 kB)
 incl abstracts of the following articles:
- Coatings for Diode Laser Bars (311 kB)
- PECVD of polysilicon (461 kB)

Plasma News January 2005 (215 kB)
 incl abstracts of the following articles:
- Etching of CdHgTe (CMT) material using Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) Systems (505 kB)
- Advances in PECVD processing (178 kB)
- MBE System Clusterlab 600 (237 kB)

Plasma News July 2004 (305 kB)
 incl abstracts of the following articles:
- Plasma Etching - An Essential Tool for Failure Analysis (355 kB)
- Recent improvements in ICP etching for MEMS and other applications (172 kB)
- Molecular Beam Epitaxy: Applications and Equipment (165 kB)
- Liquid Precursors for Silicon Dioxide PECVD (311 kB)

Plasma News January 2004 (329 kB)
 incl abstracts of the following articles:
- Etching of III-V Materials using Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) Systems (977 kB)
- Batch Plasma Processing of Gallium Nitride as a Production Solution (364 kB)
- State of the Art End Point Detection Techniques for Compound Semiconductors (241 kB)
- Low Temperature Deposition by ICP (198 kB)
- ICP Silicon Etch Processes for Photonic Crystals (465 kB)

Plasma News October 2003 (256 kB)
 incl abstracts of the following articles:
- Lens Etching for Photonic Applications (1275 kB)
- Polymer Etching for Passive Photonics (837 kB)
- Ion beam Etching and Reactive Ion beam etching (1073 kB)
- High Rate SiO2 Etching for Passive Photonics (381 kB)

Plasma News July 2003 (250 kB)
 incl abstracts of the following articles:
- PECVD for Passive Photonic Applications (96 kB)
- Ion Beam Deposition for High Quality Optics (73 kB)
- Versatile Magnetron Sputtering Solution (57 kB)

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