TY - JOUR
T1 - Silicon surface processing techniques for micro-systems fabrication
AU - Mizeikis, Vygantas
AU - Juodkazis, Saulius
AU - Ye, Jia Yu
AU - Rode, Andrei
AU - Matsuo, Shigeki
AU - Misawa, Hiroaki
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partially supported by The Satellite Venture Business Laboratory (SVBL) of the University of Tokushima. A.R. acknowledges financial support of SVBL for his scientific visit of Tokushima group; S.J. acknowledges support by the Aerospace contract No. F62562-03-P-0208 AOARD 02-35.
PY - 2003/8/22
Y1 - 2003/8/22
N2 - Micromachining of silicon surface and near-surface regions by electron-beam lithography (EBL) and reactive ion dry-etching (RIE), as well as by laser microfabrication techniques is described. Combination of EBL and RIE techniques is used to fabricate quasi two-dimensional (2D) photonic crystal (PhC) structures with aspect ratios at approximately 15. Structural and optical properties of PhC samples with 2D honeycomb lattice are reported, and a complete photonic band gap at wavelengths approximately 2.16 μm is identified from the optical transmission data. Next, laser microfabrication of silicon by femtosecond laser pulses is reported. Processing of silicon under low air pressure conditions (≃5 Torr) is demonstrated to be essentially debris-free process, highly suitable for cutting and scribing of wafers as well for hole drilling. Removal of thin films from the silicon surface by a single-shot laser ablation using mask projection is also demonstrated.
AB - Micromachining of silicon surface and near-surface regions by electron-beam lithography (EBL) and reactive ion dry-etching (RIE), as well as by laser microfabrication techniques is described. Combination of EBL and RIE techniques is used to fabricate quasi two-dimensional (2D) photonic crystal (PhC) structures with aspect ratios at approximately 15. Structural and optical properties of PhC samples with 2D honeycomb lattice are reported, and a complete photonic band gap at wavelengths approximately 2.16 μm is identified from the optical transmission data. Next, laser microfabrication of silicon by femtosecond laser pulses is reported. Processing of silicon under low air pressure conditions (≃5 Torr) is demonstrated to be essentially debris-free process, highly suitable for cutting and scribing of wafers as well for hole drilling. Removal of thin films from the silicon surface by a single-shot laser ablation using mask projection is also demonstrated.
KW - Laser ablation
KW - Nanostructures
KW - Optoelectronic devices
KW - Silicon
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U2 - 10.1016/S0040-6090(03)00803-4
DO - 10.1016/S0040-6090(03)00803-4
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:0043028632
SN - 0040-6090
VL - 438-439
SP - 445
EP - 451
JO - Thin Solid Films
JF - Thin Solid Films
T2 - The 5th International Conference on Nano-Molecular Electronics
Y2 - 10 December 2002 through 12 December 2002
ER -