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and a dental porcelain etching gel — against a 300 nm silicon dioxide layer. Etch speed varied widely, from rust remover’s 10 nm/min to glass etching cream’s blazing 240 nm/min — we wonder ...

Source: Lam Research Used for several decades, etch is an essential process in the fab. In a simple process flow, a system deposits silicon dioxide materials on a wafer. A lithography system then ...

Adding it during the process quadrupled the etch rate for silicon dioxide, but it only had marginal impact on the silicon nitride layer. They also looked at ammonium fluorosilicate, a chemical ...

For example, chlorine-based gases are commonly used for etching silicon, while fluorine-based gases are used for etching silicon dioxide and nitride. Wet etching involves the use of liquid chemical ...

The bits left in shadow stay soft. When an etching chemical is applied those soft parts, and the silicon dioxide underneath them, are removed. The hard photoresist is then dissolved, leaving a ...

More information: Thorsten Lill et al, Low-temperature etching of silicon oxide and silicon nitride with hydrogen fluoride, ...