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CN101497793A
CN101497793A CNA2009100039072A CN200910003907A CN101497793A CN 101497793 A CN101497793 A CN 101497793A CN A2009100039072 A CNA2009100039072 A CN A2009100039072A CN 200910003907 A CN200910003907 A CN 200910003907A CN 101497793 A CN101497793 A CN 101497793A
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An etchant composition for etching an indium tin oxide layer and a method of etching using the same. The composition is used for etching an Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) transparent conductive layer in a TFT-LCD electronic component and a display device for preparing an ITO layer, contains 4 to 10 wt% of sulfuric acid, 2.5 to 6.0 wt% of nitric acid, 0.5 to 5 wt% of an etching control agent and the balance of water based on the total weight of the composition, has excellent etching performance for the ITO transparent conductive layer, reduces chemical attack on a photosensitive material such as a photoresist in an etching process, and does not leave residues or precipitates. In this composition, oxalic acid does not crystallize below 0 ℃, but oxalic acid crystallization occurs in a conventional oxalic acid-based etchant composition, and no side effects occur on a lower metal layer, but a hydrochloric acid-based etchant composition occurs. Thus, the yield of TFT-LCD electronic components and display devices using ITO layers can be significantly improved, and they contain inexpensive and highly stable components such as sulfuric acid, and the composition remains relatively stable over time, enabling manufacturing costs to be reduced.

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Be used for the etching agent composite of etching indium tin oxide layer and use its etching method
The Korean Patent Application No. that the application requires to submit in Korea S Department of Intellectual Property on January 28th, 2008 is the right of priority of 10-2008-0008715, all incorporates its disclosed content into this paper by reference.
Technical field
The present invention relates to the method that is used for the etching agent composite of etching indium tin oxide layer and utilizes this etching agent composite etching indium tin oxide layer, in more detail, the present invention relates to a kind of etching agent composite, it has excellent etching performance to indium tin oxide (ITO) transparency conducting layer, has stability, during etching work procedure, reduce for example chemical erosion of photo-resist of photochromics, and can not stay residue or throw out, and the present invention relates to utilize the method for this etching agent composite etching ITO layer.
Background technology
Liquid-crystal display (LCD) equipment has high resolving power and shows lively image.In addition, the LCD equipment energy consumption is low.In addition, LCD equipment can be made very thin.Because these advantages, LCD equipment has become one of the most frequently used flat panel display equipment.Drive LCD equipment by circuit such as thin film transistor (TFTs).Usually, TFT-LCD forms pixel on display screen.In TFT-LCDs, TFT plays switching device.By forming TFT-LCD at the TFT substrate of arranging with matrix form with in the face of filling liquid crystal material between the colored filter substrate of TFT substrate.The method of making TFT-LCD comprises formation TFT substrate, colored filter, panel combination (cell) and module.In order to obtain accurately lively image, essential TFT substrate and the colored filter accurately made.
When the pixel show electrode of preparation TFT-LCD equipment, must have transparent and optical property and comprise the film of high conductive material.At present, indium tin oxide (ITO) and indium-zinc oxide (IZO) are used as the material that forms nesa coating.In order in the pixel show electrode, to form the circuit of wishing, must be according to the figure etch thin film layer of circuit.
Yet, because the chemical erosion of ITO or IZO utilizes the conventional etching reagent that is usually used in the etching metal bilayer to be difficult to the nesa coating that etching comprises ITO or IZO.Particularly utilized chloroazotic acid (HCl+CH 3COOH+HNO 3), the hydrochloric acid soln (FeCl of iron(ic) chloride (III) 3/ HCl), phosphoric acid (H 3PO 4) or Hydrogen bromide (HBr) as the etching reagent of Wet-type etching nesa coating.Yet when the hydrochloric acid soln etching ITO film that utilizes based on the etching reagent of chloroazotic acid or iron(ic) chloride (III), though these etching reagents are inexpensive, the pattern edge etching is very fast, thereby etch profile is poor.In addition, the hydrochloric acid or the nitric acid that are used as the principal constituent of etching reagent are easy to volatilization, thereby it forms serious the variation after for some time.In addition, phosphoric acid corrosion aluminium has high viscosity and costliness, Hydrogen bromide costliness and toxicity height.In addition, can use the amorphous indium tin oxide of oxalic acid etching (ITO) film.In this case, form residue easily around the ITO section, the solubleness of oxalic acid is crossed low so that may be formed precipitation at low temperatures, causes the etching system fault thus.
Summary of the invention
The invention provides etching agent composite, it has excellent etching performance to indium tin oxide (ITO) transparency conducting layer, have stable composition, in etching work procedure, reduce, and can not stay residue or throw out for example chemical erosion of photo-resist of photochromics.
According to an aspect of the present invention, provide a kind of etching agent composite, its gross weight based on this etching agent composite comprises the sulfuric acid of 4~10wt%, the nitric acid of 2.5~6.0wt%, the etching control agent of 0.5~5wt% and the water of surplus.
According to a further aspect in the invention, provide a kind of in making the pixel show electrode of TFT-LCD the method for etching indium tin oxide compound (ITO) layer, this method comprises utilizes etching agent composite etching indium tin oxide compound (ITO) layer, and this etching agent composite comprises the sulfuric acid of 4~10wt%, the nitric acid of 2.5~6.0wt%, the etching control agent of 0.5~5wt% and the water of surplus based on the gross weight of this etching agent composite.
By being described in detail with reference to the attached drawings its exemplary embodiment, make of the present invention above-mentioned more obvious with further feature and advantage.
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Fig. 1 shows that utilization is wet according to the etching agent composite of embodiment of the present invention and carves scanning electronic microscope (SEM) image of indium tin oxide (ITO) transparency conducting layer section after the operation;
Fig. 2 shows that utilizing etching agent composite to wet carves the operation SEM image of ITO transparency conducting layer section afterwards, and the contained sulfuric acid amount of this etching agent composite is less than the etching agent composite according to embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 3 shows that utilizing etching agent composite to wet carves the operation SEM image of ITO transparency conducting layer section afterwards, and the contained nitric acid amount of this etching agent composite is less than the etching agent composite according to embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 4 shows that utilizing etching agent composite to wet carves the operation SEM image of ITO transparency conducting layer section afterwards, and the contained etching control agent of this etching agent composite is less than the etching agent composite according to embodiment of the present invention.
Embodiment
Referring now to the accompanying drawing that shows illustrative embodiments of the invention the present invention is described more fully.
According to etching agent composite of the present invention, based on the gross weight of this etching agent composite, comprise a) sulfuric acid of 4~10wt%, the b) nitric acid of 2.5~6.0wt%, c) the etching control agent of 0.5~5wt% and the water of surplus.
In etching agent composite, be easy to separate this etching control agent.In addition, the etching control agent makes the electrolyte effect maximization, reduces the bounding force between photo-resist and the metal level (and/or metal oxide layer) thus.As a result, the etching control agent has excellent etching performance to amorphous indium tin oxide (ITO).
In this, when the amount of etching control agent is less than 0.5wt% based on the gross weight of etching agent composite, be difficult to reduce the bounding force between photo-resist and the metal level (and/or metal oxide layer), thereby reduce the linearity (linearity) of etched metal level.On the other hand,, increase the cost of etching reagent and may destroy photo-resist during based on the gross weight of etching agent composite when the amount of etching control agent greater than 5wt%.
The etching control agent can be to comprise K +Ionic compound, for example KNO 3, CH 3COOK, KHSO 4, KH 2PO 4, K 2SO 4, K 2HPO 4Or K 3PO 4, and preferred KNO 3Or CH 3COOK.
Nitric acid has excellent etching performance to indium oxide layer, reduces the chemical erosion to photochromics such as photo-resist, and can not stay residue.
When the amount of nitric acid is less than 2.5wt% based on the gross weight of etching agent composite, can reduce the etch-rate of indium oxide layer.On the other hand, when the amount of nitric acid based on the gross weight of etching agent composite during greater than 6wt%, but chemical erosion adjacent metal such as Mo and Al.
Constitute the sulfuric acid etchant ITO of main oxygenant, and can utilize known method to prepare.Particularly sulfuric acid can have the purity of semiconductor machining level.
When the vitriolic amount is less than 4wt% based on the gross weight of etching agent composite, can reduce the etch-rate of etching agent composite.On the other hand, when the vitriolic amount based on the gross weight of etching agent composite during greater than 10wt%, but chemical erosion photo-resist and/or adjacent metal.
In addition, except above-mentioned basal component, constitute by water according to the surplus of etching agent composite of the present invention (a kind of aqueous solution).In this, water can be ultrapure water.
With reference to the following example the present invention is described in further detail.These embodiment only are used for illustrative purposes rather than attempt to limit the scope of the invention.
[embodiment, comparative example 1~3]
According to the preparation of the composition (wt%) shown in the following table 1 etching agent composite.The etching control agent is KNO 3
<table 1 〉
Figure A200910003907D00061
[EXPERIMENTAL EXAMPLE]
Etching performance preparation and that be used for the etching agent composite of etching ITO transparency conducting layer is compared mutually in embodiment and comparative example 1~3.The etch-rate of measurement etching agent composite also is presented in the following table 2.Fig. 1 to 4 shows scanning electron display device (SEM) image of the etched ITO transparency conducting layer of etching agent composite that uses embodiment and comparative example 1~3.
<table 2 〉
Figure A200910003907D00062
With reference to table 2 and Fig. 1, when using the etching agent composite etching ITO transparency conducting layer of embodiment, etch-rate is high relatively, and this layer has level and smooth surface and the residue of residual particles shape not on it.
With reference to table 2 and Fig. 2, the etching agent composite of comparative example 1 comprises the sulfuric acid than scope less amount of the present invention, thereby etch-rate reduces and residual ITO residue.
With reference to table 2 and Fig. 3, the etching agent composite of comparative example 2 comprises the nitric acid than scope less amount of the present invention, thereby etch-rate reduces and residual ITO residue.
With reference to table 2 and Fig. 4, the etching agent composite of comparative example 3 does not influence etch-rate, but comprise etching control agent than scope less amount of the present invention, because the bounding force between photo-resist and the metal level, thereby reduced the linearity of etched ITO transparency conducting layer, in distribution structure, produced defective thus.
According to embodiment of the present invention, the etching agent composite that is used for the ITO transparency conducting layer of TFT-LCD, the ITO transparency conducting layer is had excellent etching performance, in etch process, reduce, and can not stay residue or throw out for example chemical erosion of photo-resist of photochromics.In addition, in etching agent composite according to the present invention, crystallization can not take place below 0 ℃ in oxalic acid, but routine based on the etching agent composite of oxalic acid in crystallization can take place, and side effect can not take place, in based on the etching agent composite of hydrochloric acid side effect can take place on lower metal level.Thereby etching agent composite of the present invention can significantly improve manufacturing and adopt the TFT-LCD electronic component of ITO layer and the productivity of display equipment.In addition, this etching agent composite comprises inexpensive and high stability component such as sulfuric acid, and the composition of this etching reagent keeps relative stability after after a while, thereby can reduce manufacturing cost.
Though shown in detail and described the present invention with reference to exemplary embodiment, but, it will be appreciated by the skilled addressee that under the situation of the spirit and scope of the present invention that do not break away from claims qualification and can carry out various changes to it aspect form and the details.

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1. an etching agent composite based on the gross weight of this etching agent composite, comprises the sulfuric acid of 4~10wt%, the nitric acid of 2.5~6.0wt%, the etching control agent of 0.5~5wt% and the water of surplus.
2. etching agent composite according to claim 1, wherein, this etching control agent comprises and is selected from KNO 3, CH 3COOK, KHSO 4, KH 2PO 4, K 2SO 4, K 2HPO 4And K 3PO 4A kind of material in the group of forming.
3. etching agent composite according to claim 2, wherein, this etching control agent comprises KNO 3Or CH 3COOK.
4. the method for etching indium tin oxide compound (ITO) layer in making the pixel show electrode of TFT-LCD, this method comprises utilizes etching agent composite etching indium tin oxide compound (ITO) layer, based on the gross weight of this etching agent composite, this etching agent composite comprises the sulfuric acid of 4~10wt%, the nitric acid of 2.5~6.0wt%, the etching control agent of 0.5~5wt% and the water of surplus.
5. method according to claim 4, wherein, this etching control agent comprises and is selected from KNO 3, CH 3COOK, KHSO 4, KH 2PO 4, K 2SO 4, K 2HPO 4And K 3PO 4A kind of material in the group of forming.
6. method according to claim 5, wherein, this etching control agent comprises KNO 3Or CH 3COOK.
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