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Thank you for all of your input, Pallavi and I ran a wafer with the passivation cycle off (SF6 only, no C4F8) - no grass. The grass must be coming from the passivation step, so she is going to run a series of experiments progressively increasing the passivation
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Agree with Jim. If after chamber clean and reconditioning, the problem still exists, check all the MFC and make sure there is no leak and calibrated. We ended up replaced one of the MFCs last spring to end the battle with black silicon on our Unaxis DSE.</p>
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<b>From:</b> labnetwork-bounces@mtl.mit.edu <labnetwork-bounces@mtl.mit.edu> <b>On Behalf Of
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 27, 2020 4:52 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Pallavi Sharma <pnsharma@unm.edu>; labnetwork@mtl.mit.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [labnetwork] Deep Reactive Ion Etch Problems</p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">When we see that it often means you are overdue for chamber cleaning and reconditioning.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">For us (SPTS Pegasus 150 mm tool) that is a long O2 chamber clean with a wafer on the chuck) followed by running our standard Bosch process on bare silicon full wafers until they come out shiny.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">If that fails then you need manual chamber wall clean (iso and scotchbrite) followed by the above.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Best of luck,</span></p>
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labnetwork-bounces@mtl.mit.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:labnetwork-bounces@mtl.mit.edu">labnetwork-bounces@mtl.mit.edu</a>> on behalf of Pallavi Sharma <<a href="mailto:pnsharma@unm.edu">pnsharma@unm.edu</a>><br>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">I am having problem with anisotropic etching of silicon by Deep Reactive ion etch. Grass or black silicon is the issue all the time, attaching some of the SEM pictures of the sample. Every recipe I tried to fine tune
result in grass formation, even as the process initiates in tool wafer surface starts to turn brown and ultimately black. I tried varying SF6 gas flow, Bias power, Substrate temperature but every time I see is highly dense grass with no clean surface. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Any help will be greatly appreciated.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Thank you,<br>
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