Etching mechanisms of (In, Ga, Zn)O thin films in CF4/Ar/O-2 inductively coupled plasma
- Authors
- Kim, Kwangsoo; Efremov, Alexander; Lee, Junmyung; Kwon, Kwang-Ho; Yeom, Geun Young
- Issue Date
- 5월-2015
- Publisher
- A V S AMER INST PHYSICS
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF VACUUM SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY A, v.33, no.3
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF VACUUM SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY A
- Volume
- 33
- Number
- 3
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/93701
- DOI
- 10.1116/1.4913735
- ISSN
- 0734-2101
- Abstract
- The authors investigated the etching characteristics and mechanisms of (In, Ga, Zn)O (IGZO) thin films in CF4/Ar/O-2 inductively coupled plasmas. The etching rates of IGZO as well as the IGZO/SiO2 and IGZO/Al2O3 etching selectivities were measured as functions of O-2 content in a feed gas (0%-50%) and gas pressure (p = 4-10 mTorr) at fixed input power (W-inp = 700 W) and bias power (W-dc = 200 W). It was found that the IGZO etching rate decreases monotonically toward O-2 rich plasma but exhibits a maximum under gas pressure conditions. The zero-dimensional plasma model with Langmuir probe diagnostics data provided the information on plasma parameters and densities of plasma active species. The model-based analysis shows the dominance of the ion-flux-limited etching regime at p >= 6 mTorr as well as the noticeable influence of CFx radicals on the overall etching kinetics. (C) 2015 American Vacuum Society.
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