Local Electric Field Effect in Reactive Ion Etching
- 1 June 1993
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 32 (6S)
- https://doi.org/10.1143/jjap.32.3029
Abstract
We present unambiguous evidence that under reactive ion etching conditions, i.e., P≤75 mTorr, the perturbation of the local electric field by the geometric shape of the trench has very little influence on ion trajectories and hence on the etching rate. This local electric field effect is negligible even for trenches with depths as large as 50 µm, and even for incident ions with energies as small as 20 eV. These results are in sharp disagreement with the previous models in the literature.Keywords
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