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<p class="MsoNormal">We struggled for a while getting Al to work well in e-beam evaporator. It works very well with a slow heat and cool using a tungsten crucible liner. The Al doesn’t wet over the liner, and the liner doesn’t crack. You can still burn through
it with the e-beam if you aren’t paying attention to fill level though.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank You,<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><i><span style="color:#13294B">Senior Research Engineer</span></i><span style="color:#13294B">, Grainger College of Engineering, MechSE, Univ of IL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#13294B">2239 LuMEB | (P) 217.244.6302 | </span>
<u><span style="color:blue"><a href="https://cleanroom.mechse.illinois.edu/">https://cleanroom.mechse.illinois.edu/</a></span></u><span style="color:#13294B"><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>Ted Wangensteen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 30, 2022 8:05 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Ryan Rivers <rrivers@berkeley.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> labnetwork@mtl.mit.edu; Michael Yakimov <yakimom@sunypoly.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [labnetwork] Regarding : Aluminium E-Beam Evaporation<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ryan has hit on the key thermal explanation, and the best way to help this is the Carbon spacer he mentioned.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We used this on Lesker tools.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kurt Lesker sells the spacer, but I'm not sure what tool you are using.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-Ted Wangensteen<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 8:07 AM Ryan Rivers <<a href="mailto:rrivers@berkeley.edu">rrivers@berkeley.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The best way around the aluminum crucible shattering problem is to use a FABMATE crucible, but also to use a carbon spacer under your liner. A 1/8" thick carbon disk works in a pinch, you can get fancier with some machine shop time. We
use them in all our ebeam tools the Marvell NanoLab and I've only seen a handful of crucible liners shatter from thermal load in the last decade.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Primary cause of crucible liner breaks are incomplete thermal contact on one side of the crucible. When you're pouring too much heat in to make up for that contact, one side goes red hot, the other never gets there. Thermal expansion drives
the rest. The spacer prevents your liner from cooling through the sides and only cools at the bottom. You heat with less joules in, so less shock. Lets your entire crucible heat more evenly and more readily stabilize through the problematic regions of melt
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 4:47 PM Michael Yakimov <<a href="mailto:yakimom@sunypoly.edu" target="_blank">yakimom@sunypoly.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">One of things which may hinder Al deposition from carbon crucible is Aluminum carbide formation on the surface. It will show up as yellow stuff on the surface after venting, eventually decomposing
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">It is a part of tribal knowledge for me; I couldn't find a good reference in 5 minutes. there is mention of the effect here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00792405__;!!DZ3fjg!7hVfwponNLyYKEezPAlGKgy9Tu-xxv3gBvLweMk84xrZZZaBFF9vmU6cU1X-c16GGqTt-p3DMqVT_z3_IuTBZVz_8A$" target="_blank">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00792405</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From:</span></b><span style="color:black"> labnetwork <<a href="mailto:labnetwork-bounces@mtl.mit.edu" target="_blank">labnetwork-bounces@mtl.mit.edu</a>> on behalf of Zhichao Wang <<a href="mailto:zhichaow@udel.edu" target="_blank">zhichaow@udel.edu</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 29, 2022 12:14 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Chandan H B <<a href="mailto:chandanachar95@gmail.com" target="_blank">chandanachar95@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:labnetwork@mtl.mit.edu" target="_blank">labnetwork@mtl.mit.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:labnetwork@mtl.mit.edu" target="_blank">labnetwork@mtl.mit.edu</a>><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We use a pattern beam with the pattern sweeping/rotating constantly during the deposition, and a fabmate crucible. The rest of the parameters are pretty similar. The highest deposition rate we've tried is 15 Angstrom/s.
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 8:07 AM Chandan H B <<a href="mailto:chandanachar95@gmail.com" target="_blank">chandanachar95@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are currently facing an issue in the deposition of Aluminium in one of our Electron beam evaporation tools, we tried intermetallic, fab mate, copper, glassy coated graphite, and graphite crucibles for the evaporation. It seems that none
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<p class="MsoNormal">We see crucible gets broken at the initial deposition quite often.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Are we missing out on any parameters unchecked?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kindly recommend us a few parameters or solutions for the same.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">P.S: Here are a few parameters that are provided to the tool.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Rise1 Power: 4% (for intermetallic crucible)<o:p></o:p></p>
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