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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">HI,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">These look like Nitrogen bubbles, how thick is the resist? Is the thickness in the recommended range?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">We have this issue when the humidity is out of control, we solved the issue by reducing the thickness, to be in the recommended range and changing the prebake per advice form the resist supplier.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> labnetwork <labnetwork-bounces@mtl.mit.edu> <b>
On Behalf Of </b>Maduzia, Joseph Walter<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 4, 2021 9:59 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> labnetwork@mtl.mit.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [labnetwork] PR bubbles where exposed<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello All!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you again for all your feedback on SiO2 etch around Al. It has been very helpful and we are moving down multiple paths suggested via the Lab Network to try to solve the issue. More to come once we solve it!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have another issue I was hoping for feedback on. We have bubbling in our PR (SPR-220-4.5) (pos tone) that we haven’t been able to track the source of. It only bubbles during exposure and only where it is exposed. Unexposed areas are unaffected.
I’ve attached some images of the bubbling where you can see the exposed (lighter) and unexposed (darker) areas. The bubbles are visible to the naked eye. The wafer is silicon w a dry thermally grown SiO2 surface. We typically expose via EV620 mask aligner
with Vac+HardContact. However, even in a flood exposure with the mask just set lightly down it still bubbles. Without a mask there are also bubbles randomly distributed across the wafer, but they don’t get stuck to the mask so they don’t pop. We tried various
pre-bakes, HMDS coat vs not, piranha treat vs not. In the past these bubbles show up, we trial and error to get rid of them and suddenly they disappear. Our process, although seemingly repeatable, does not yield repeatable results.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank You,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#13294B;text-transform:uppercase">JOE MADUZIA</span></b><span style="color:black"><br>
</span><i><span style="color:#13294B">MNMS Laboratory Specialist</span></i><span style="color:black"><br>
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</span><span style="color:#13294B">217.244.6302 | </span><a href="mailto:jmaduzi2@illinois.edu">jmaduzi2@illinois.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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