Process Hierarchy

  Silicon nitride PECVD (Unaxis VLR 700)
Process characteristics:
Thickness
Thickness*
must be 0.01 .. 0.15 µm
0.01 .. 0.15 µm
Deposition rate
Rate at which material is added to a wafer
105 Å/min
Gas 5% Silane, Nitrogen, Ammonia, Helium
Material silicon nitride
Microstructure amorphous
Pressure
Pressure of process chamber during processing
900 mTorr
Refractive index 1.9
Residual stress 1850 MPa
Temperature 250 °C
Wafer size
Wafer size
Equipment Unaxis VLR 700 PECVD
Equipment characteristics:
Batch sizes 100 mm: 25
Wafer geometry
Types of wafers this equipment can accept
1-flat
Wafer holder
Device that holds the wafers during processing.
cassette
Wafer materials
List of wafer materials this tool can accept (not list of all materials, just the wafer itself).
silicon, silicon on insulator
Wafer thickness
List or range of wafer thicknesses the tool can accept
300 .. 700 µm