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1998
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Title

A generalized model describing corner undercutting by the experimental analysis of TMAH/IPA

Abstract
Up to now the etch fronts developed in anisotropic wet chemical etching by undercutting at convex corners have been assumed to be straight and correlated to some special defined fast etching crystal planes. Especially the propagation direction has been proposed to be in coincidence with the direction of maximal etch rate. These were found to be in accordance with the experimental data for KOH. However, when we use TMAH/IPA as the etchant this usual idea leads to severe contradictions with the experimental data which reveal on the one hand a curved etch front and on the other hand an obvious discrepancy of the propagation direction from the direction of maximal etch rate. Further investigation also show the same deviation for TMAH and KOH/IPA. To overcome this dilemma we propose a generalized model considering all crystal planes to be equivalent at first and then determining the etch front curve by the projected etch rates.
Author(s)
Trieu, H.-K.
Mokwa, W.
Journal
Journal of micromechanics and microengineering  
Conference
Workshop on Micromachining, Micromechanics and Microsystems 1997  
DOI
10.1088/0960-1317/8/2/009
Language
English
Fraunhofer-Institut für Mikroelektronische Schaltungen und Systeme IMS  
Keyword(s)
  • Anisotropie

  • Ätzen

  • Ätzfront

  • Eckenunterätzung

  • Modell

  • TMAH

  • TMAH/IPA

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