Etching properties of Na0.5K0.5NbO3 thin films by using inductively coupled CF4/Ar plasma
- Authors
- Joo, Young-Hee; Woo, Jong-Chang; Kim, Chang-Il
- Issue Date
- Feb-2014
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
- Keywords
- NKN; Plasma etching; CF4/Ar; XPS; AFM
- Citation
- MICROELECTRONIC ENGINEERING, v.114, pp 1 - 6
- Pages
- 6
- Journal Title
- MICROELECTRONIC ENGINEERING
- Volume
- 114
- Start Page
- 1
- End Page
- 6
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/12501
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.mee.2013.08.015
- ISSN
- 0167-9317
1873-5568
- Abstract
- The etch process of the Na0.5K0.5NbO3 (NKN) thin film was performed in CF4/Ar plasma. We investigated the etch rate of the NKN thin films and the selectivity of NKN to SiO2 in an inductively coupled plasma. The maximum etch rate of the NKN thin films was 127.3 nm/min in CF4/Ar (=4: 16 sccm) plasma and the selectivity of NKN to SiO2 was 0.31. We analyzed the XPS narrow scan spectra for the reaction on the surface of the NKN thin films. From the XPS data analysis, we were assumed that the byproducts were generated on the surface of the NKN thin films during the etching process, but the physical sputtering process effectively removed the byproducts. We analyzed the morphologies of the surface of the NKN thin films from AFM measurement. The Ar concentration affects the surface morphology greatly. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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