Evolutionary kinetic monte carlo method for the simulation of anisotropic etching of z-cut, at-cut and bt-cut quartz

H Zhang, Y Xing, J Zhang, MA Gosálvez… - … Conference on Solid …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
H Zhang, Y Xing, J Zhang, MA Gosálvez, Y Li, Y Zhang
2017 19th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors …, 2017ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study explores for the first time the use of the Evolutionary Kinetic Monte Carlo method
(EKMC) to describe the etch rate anisotropy of quartz and three-dimensional microstructures
and topography etched on Z-cut, AT-cut and BT-cut substrates using some mask patterns.
Based on the evolutionary algorithm, the EKMC can properly transform the (facet specific)
macroscopic etch rates of several crystal planes parallel to the X and Y axes into suitable
values for the (atom specific) microscopic removal probabilities, leading to etch rate errors …
This study explores for the first time the use of the Evolutionary Kinetic Monte Carlo method (EKMC) to describe the etch rate anisotropy of quartz and three-dimensional microstructures and topography etched on Z-cut, AT-cut and BT-cut substrates using some mask patterns. Based on the evolutionary algorithm, the EKMC can properly transform the (facet specific) macroscopic etch rates of several crystal planes parallel to the X and Y axes into suitable values for the (atom specific) microscopic removal probabilities, leading to etch rate errors that remain within 5%. The simulation of single- and double-side etching results on masked Z-cut, AT-cut and BT-cut substrates are in excellent agreement with the experiment. This demonstrates the ability of the EKMC to predict the propagation of multi-valued surfaces for different types of quartz wafers in etching process.
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