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 | MSM 98
Technical Proceedings of the 1998 International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems
Chapter 2: Bulk and Topography Processing |
| | Numerical Simulation for the Sacrificial Release of MEMS Square Diaphragms | | Authors: | W.J. Li, J.C. Shih, J.D. Mai, C-M. Ho, J. Liu and Y-C. Tai | | Affilation: | UC-Los Angeles, U.S.A. | | Pages: | 59 - 64 | | Keywords: | sacrificial-etching, surfacemicromachining, HF-PSG, MEMS-diaphragm, etchingmodel | | Abstract: | Chemical etching of sacrifeial layers is a widely used technique in surface micromachining Etch rate prediction of the sacrif cial layer in an etchant is critical for optimizing a giving fabrication process. This paper presents a moving-boundary numerical scheme to predict the motion of a hydrofluoric (HF) acid and phosphosilicate-glass fPSG) etching interface. Results showed the prediction of the etch front pmpagation for square structures is universally possible for HF concentrations ranging from 3 to 49?/a In the process, some physical mechanisms governing the HFPSG etching phenomenon were elucidated The results also indicate that the moving-boundary scheme can be extended to predict the etch rate of more complex geometries. |  | View paper | | ISBN: | 0-96661-35-0-3 |
| Pages: | 678 |
| Hardcopy: | $100.00 |
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