Silicate and direct bonding of low thermal expansio n. Deep nld plasma etching of fused silica and borosilicate glass. Fused silica wafers jgs1, jgs2, jgs3 grades refreactive index. Figure 10 shows the effects of variations in the ph of. Normal varieties contain water which gives strong absortion in the ir. Excimer laser patterning on fused silica an excimer laser ipg ix255, wavelength 193. Wafer direct bonding is a technology that allows two mirrorpolished surfaces to be bonded without using any additional material. Characterization of deep wet etching of fused silica glass. Fused silica wafers are thin, circular pieces of uv fused silica designed to be used as test substrates to measure the quality of optical coatings. Pdf the basic principles of wafer fusion bonding including pretreatment, room temperature mating, and thermal annealing are presented.
We offer many different grades of fused silica to support various product applications. Quick turn fused silica wafers ship within three weeks hpfs standard grade. Production of fused silica wafers manufacture of fused silica a method for producing fused silica wafers is the melting and subsequent resolidifying of ultrapure quartz. Molecular dynamics studies of silica wafer bonding article pdf available in journal of applied physics 855. Wafer bonding is an integral part of the fabrication of mems, optoelectronics, and heterogeneous wafer stacks, including silicononinsulator. Flatness and roughness are critical parameters for direct bonding and were. Fused silica is a noncrystalline glass form of silicon dioxide quartz, sand. Unfortunately, current bonding technologies, such as fusion bonding 9 or thermocompression bonding 10. Molecular dynamics studies of silica wafer bonding max planck. Fused silica our fused silica material consists of sintered quartz glass high purity powder with a fine pore structure which has an extremely low expansion coefficient and thus a very good. Due to the enhanced surface roughness, it is almost impossible to bond wafers after. University wafer the leading supplier of silicon wafers.
Fused silica wafers have been ultrasonically cleaned and are delivered in contaminantfree packaging to ensure quality. Complete procedure for fabrication of a fused silica. Deep nld plasma etching of fused silica and borosilicate glass mohammed j. Compared to the dry etching method, using laser ablation turns out to be a simpler process for etching through via holes in fused silica wafer. Glass codes 7979, 7980, and 8655 are high purity noncrystalline silica glasses with excellent optical qualities. Our fused silica wafers are hpfs high purity fused silica 7980, uv grade fused. Fabrication of through via holes in ultrathin fused. Microchemicals silicon, quartz, glass and fused silica wafer stock list revised.
Us20120299143a1 thin, very high transmittance, back. The wafers are then dried at the moment they emerge from the liquid, due to surface tensions. Most optical materials, including fused silica and fused quartz substrates and wafers can be processed in sizes as large as 12 square or 12 diameter. A process to fabricate fused silica nanofluidic devices with. Fused silica wafers as thin as 100um and all diameters and dimensions in stock. Fused silica corning 7940 wafer material has been discontinued by corning and was replaced by hpfs high purity fused silica 7980, which is an ideal material for uv grade fused silica. We describe the two bonding technologies and report on the deformation. History of wafer bonding although wafer direct bonding has only recently been added to the toolbox of microelectronics and microsystem technology, the basic phenomenon has been.
This method provides high bonding strengths at room temperature as well as main tains microstructure morphology7,8. Pdf silicon fusion bonding and its characterization researchgate. Ee 432532 silicon dioxide 3 in microelectronics, we use thin layers of pure sio 2. Fused silica substrates polishing, fused silica wafers. The structure was then heated at above 800 c to fuse the layers together, hence. Fused silica is the glassy form of quartz and is thus isotropic. Our facility uses doublesided lapping and polishing machines to. Pdf wafer bonding is an integral part of the fabrication of mems. The plane back side of the core substrate was then closed by direct bonding of an ule wafer.
Preferably, the silica solutions are adjusted to a ph of or above 10. History of wafer bonding although wafer direct bonding has only recently been added to the toolbox of microelectronics and microsystem technology, the basic phenomenon has been known and used for many centuries. Our fused silica wafers is a a high purity synthetic amorphous silicon dioxide. Lowtemperature wafer direct bonding of silicon and quartz. Pdf molecular dynamics studies of silica wafer bonding. Highperformance new and midinfrared crystalline coatings. At wafer universe you will find a wide selection of various sized wafers in different.
University wafer wafer products include silicon, gallium arsenide, gallium antimonide, glass, quartz, soi, ito, dicing, thermal oxide, nitride, deposition since 1997. Adhesive wafer bonding is a technique using an intermediate layer for bonding. After polishing for 5h, with the increment of recycling polishing time, rr of fused silica begins to. A motorola pressure sensor using glass frit wafer bonding for packaging 9. Hpfs 7979, 7980 and 8655 fused silica hpfs fused silica glasses are known throughout the industry for their consistent, repeatable performance. This silicon oxide fusion bonding process, which is normally undertaken by the customer, typically has a coating of several microns thick. Additionally, these optical wafers can also be used as dummy components for.
Our fused silica wafers ahve a very low thermal expansion coefficient, very good homogeneity including excellent optical properties and exceptional transmittance in the uv range. Fused silica glass is a good electrical insulator, retaining high resistivity at elevated temperatures and excellent highfrequency characteristics. Below are just a small expample of the fused silica wafers that we have in stock. The effects of variations in surface state on these process characteristics have been investigated for silicon, oxidized silicon and fusedsilica wafer pairs. Polymers, spinon glasses, resists and polyimides are some of the materials. Surfacerelated phenomena in the direct bonding of silicon. The calculations describe the mechanism of hydrophilic silicon wafer bonding in terms of. A very high transmittance, backilluminated, silicononthin sapphireonfused silica wafer substrate design is presented for enabling high quantum efficiency and high resolution, silicon. Keywords anodic bonding, mems, micromachining, silicon direct bonding, silicon fusion bonding, wafer bonding. Lowtemperature bonding for siliconbased microoptical. Fusion bonding of rough surfaces with polishing technique for.
Wafer universe offers a wide rangeof highquality wafers from glass and quartz available off the shelf. Fused silica wafers are slim circular pieces of fused silica intended to be utilized as high quality coating substrates to measure the quality of optical coatings. Quartz silica substrates, fused silica wafers, fused. Our fused silica wafers are hpfs high purity fused silica 7980, uv grade fused silica wafers. Rr of fused silica increases and then arrives near 4 um h. Outofplane electrode architecture for fused silica micro.
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