Fabrication of Nanostructure by Anisotropic Wet Etching of Silicon

Abstract
Structural uniformity and processing-related material degradation are two major problems in the fabrication of nanostructure devices. Anisotropic wet etching by using a mixed solution of ethylenediamine/water/pyrocatechol is successfully applied to the fabrication of ultrasmall structure of Si. It has been found that anisotropic wet etching eliminates the structural fluctuations by virtue of the inherent crystallographic nature of Si. A 20 nm-wide structure with specular side walls has been obtained.

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit: