Wet Clean Challenges for

Various Applications

Business of Cleans Conference 2018

Stephen Olson, Martin Rodgers,

Satyavolu Papa Rao, Chris Borst

solson@sunypoly.edu

Outline

• SUNY Poly Introduction

– Background

– Key focus areas and wet process challenges

• SiC power devices

• Si Photonics

• Qubit fabrication

• EUV post-etch clean

SUNY Poly overview (site/programs)

Key technical clean challenge (related to one of SUNY Poly’s current programs/technologies)

Important future clean / wet process needs; from a SUNY Poly Perspective (maybe 5 or so key

technologies/areas spanning 5nm, embedded photonics derivatives, and AI / neural network

applications, etc..)

timesunion.com, July 10, 2015

SUNY Polytechnic Institute - Diverse Departments

and Faculty

• ~3000 graduate and undergrad

students

• SUNY Poly prepares today’s students

at two NYS locations; providing a

comprehensive academic and

research experience – Business Management

– Communications and Humanities

– Computer and Information Sciences

– Engineering, Science & Mathematics

– Engineering Technology

– Social and Behavioral Sciences

– Nanobioscience

– Nanoeconomics

– Nanoengineering

– Nanoscience

Utica Campus

Albany Campus

Utica Campus

Albany Campus

SUNY Poly

is not a traditional

university:

• Public and private investments in

excess of $15B with >$150 M in

annual sponsored R&D

• Over 3,500 jobs on site (2,700 from

industrial partners)

• > 1,670,000 sq.ft. of cutting-edge

facilities, 120,000 sq.ft. of industry

compliant 300mm cleanrooms

• More than 300 industry partners

including electronics, energy,

defense & biohealth

Combined Industry and Academic Mission

• Interdisciplinary academic research

• Industry R&D partnerships statewide

• Track record of CNSE graduates

hired by research labs in industry &

academia

SUNY Poly Timeline 1997 - present

07/14

NYS Power Electronics

Manufacturing Consortium

($500M/5years)

07/05

06/06 07/08 07/02

06/97 04/01

08/98

11/02 01/05

04/04 01/05

GF – Luther Forest Plant

($4.6B)

$1.5B Packaging R&D & MFG

INVENT ($600M/7 years)

IBM-Albany CSR ($450M)

ASML R&D Center ($400M/5

years)

National Focus Center Consortium

($10M/year)

NanoFab 200

Building ($16.5M)

Nanoelectronics Center of

Excellence ($150M)

International SEMATECH North ($320M/5 years)

Tokyo Electron Ltd. (TEL) Technology Center America

M+W Group relocates its

North American Headquarters

02/10

09/10

International SEMATECH

Manufacturing Initiative

10/10

U.S. DOE PVMC Grant

($57.5M)

04/11

College of Nanoscale Science &

Engineering Formed

Smart System Technology &

Commercialization Center created

05/07

International Sematech / NYS

Agreement ($300M/5 years)

American Institute for Manufacturing

Integrated Photonics

($600M/5 years)

07/15

Danfoss Silicon Power Utica Quad-C

($100M)

03/17

http://www.albany.edu/giving/corp_big_cestm.jpg

• The New York Power Electronics Manufacturing Consortium (NY-PEMC) is building the next

generation of power electronic devices

• Newly outfitted fab at SUNY Poly for building devices on 150 mm SiC wafers

• The NY-PEMC Packaging Center in Utica is a partnership with Danfoss Silicon Power for the

packaging of modules and power blocks for industrial, automotive, and renewable

applications

150/200mm PEMC Cleanroom at SUNY Poly

Power Electronics

Packaging Center at the Computer Chip

Commercialization Center (Quad-C) in Utica, NY

Danfoss power electronic

drives and cooling products

SiC Advantages

• Si power devices are approaching physical performance limits for high

power devices

• Compared to Si, SiC devices have:

• 3x larger band gap

• 2x higher melting point

• 10x higher dielectric breakdown field

Radar plot compares properties of SiC and Si Graph shows application areas for Si, SiC and GaN based devices

Wet Process Challenges for SiC

• Thermal oxidation of SiC forms oxides with different thickness on the

front and back side of the wafer

• Wet etch processes need to be designed for Si vs C face differences

Liu, Gang. (2015). Applied

Physics Reviews. 2.

021307.

10.1063/1.4922748.

Simonka et al J.

Appl. Phys. 120,

135705 (2016)

• Graph shows oxidation rates on different faces of 4-H SiC

• Growth rate is slower on Si rich surface

Diagram shows crystal structure of 4-H SiC

Defect Metrology Challenges

http://www.ledtaiwan.org/zh/sites/l

edtaiwan.org/files/data16/docs/2.%2

0KLA-Tencor.pdf

• Substrate defects overwhelm metrology – Hence more challenging to monitor and control wet processes on SiC

Images show crystal defects on a SiC wafer

Integrated Photonics

• AIM Photonics program is building Si photonic devices

using established semiconductor technology and methods

on 300 mm wafers

• EPDA: Enabling faster design with leading tools

• MPW runs: Cost-effective use of resources

• Key optical elements: light source, wave guide, modulator,

detector

• Assembly & Test: Being developed at Rochester facility

Design Fabricate

Assemble Test

SEM images show Si photonics devices fabricated in SUNY

Poly’s 300mm semiconductor cleanroom

SEM image of modulator

Photonics Wet Challenges

• Waveguide loss is driven by roughness of the sidewall

• Chemical oxidation followed by dHF has been shown to smooth the sides of Si wave

guides

1 Lee et al. Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 77,

No. 11, 11 September 2000

Calculated loss as a function of

roughness amplitude and correlation

length for 500 nm wide waveguide 1 Loss measured as a function of waveguide

dimension and smoothing process 2

2 SPARACIN et al. JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE

TECHNOLOGY, VOL. 23, NO. 8, AUGUST 2005

Oxide

Si

Cross section diagram

of a Si waveguide

• Next generation ICs,

sensors, fuel cell, and

photovoltaic technologies – Reconfigurable

multifunctional 2D devices

– Single-cell in-vivo carbon

nanotube (CNT) multi-

modality sensors

– AlGaN next generation

micro-batteries

– CIGS device optimization

for PV alternative energy

New 2D channel IC

devices

CNT in-vivo biosensors

3D MOCVD structures for micro-batteries n-doped graphene CIGS

Nanoengineering Constellation - Current Research

University Research

• SUNY Poly researchers are exploring superconducting qubit architectures and materials to

enable scaling of Quantum Computing systems

• Quantum computers have an advantage when solving certain problems that are difficult on

a classical computer

• Factoring large numbers

• Efficient search through unstructured data

• Secure communication

• Pharma-molecule design, etc.

Two 3D qubits from a 300mm wafer,

measured at Syracuse University Josephson junction formation using advanced processes at SUNY

Poly

Quantum Computing

Qubit Devices

Systems from nature Engineered systems

Examples Photons, trapped ions, nuclear

spin

Superconducting

Josephson junction

Coherence time Long (s) Short (µs)

Interfacing and

coupling

Difficult Easier as it can be part

of the design

• Key challenge: Insulators and interfaces are still have loss at

superconducting temperatures

• A qubit is a physical system that can be placed into a quantum state

– State is fragile, and eventually decays due to interaction with the environment

– Must last long enough to complete computation step

• Superconducting materials allow us to engineer systems that display quantum

behavior

New devices falling somewhere between these categories are being developed including

topological qubit (Microsoft) and Si spin qubits (Intel)

Materials and Interfaces are Critical

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2 Quintana et al.,

APL 105, 062601 (2014)

1 H. Paik and K.D. Osborn

APL 96, 072505 (2010)

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lower N-H defects, better loss tangent

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Preparation 2 Improve dielectric

growth 1

3 Y. Chu et al. APL 109, 112601

dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4962327

Remove dielectric 3

• Qubit coherence time can be improved by eliminating defects in insulators

and interfaces

• Interfaces are improved with surface cleaning and preparation

Interface Improvement

• Si surface prepared with DHF shows reduced oxide under the deposited Al

• TEM images show a Al / Al oxide / Al Josephson junction

• Green region shows oxide under the device

• TEM image of Al deposited on Si in SUNY Poly’s 300m

line

• Surface was prepared using DHF

Si Undercut Etch

Q improvement of NbTiN resonators with Si recess (Barends et al, arXiv:1005.0408v1 3 May 2010)

TiN

Si • TiN overhang improves Q factor of resonators

• Wet process was used to create the overhang

• SEM image shows undercut TiN structure

fabricated at SUNY Poly

EUV Lithography

SUNY Poly and partners are working together to enable

EUV lithography success at the 7 and 5 nm nodes

SEM images shows single-pass

16nm EUV pattern

ASML 3400B NXE EUV System

Wet Clean for EUV Patterned Features

Process flow 1. Pattern EUV resist

2. Etch hardmask

3. Wet clean 1

4. Etch oxide

5. Wet clean 2

After HM open and EUV resist ash After wet clean

After wet clean After oxide RIE

EUV resist

Hardmask

Oxide

• EUV resist must be very thin to support fine feature size

• Requires an etch to open the hardmask and etch the

features

• Wet clean is used to remove re-deposited polymer after

the HM open RIE and ash.

Similar structure a different wet

clean shows pattern collapse

Conclusions

Wet clean remains an important process technology as semiconductor fabrication technology are applied to new areas

Power Electronics

Si Photonics

Quantum Computing

EUV Patterning