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CN118099922A
CN118099922A CN202410520608.0A CN202410520608A CN118099922A CN 118099922 A CN118099922 A CN 118099922A CN 202410520608 A CN202410520608 A CN 202410520608A CN 118099922 A CN118099922 A CN 118099922A
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Abstract

The invention discloses a method for etching a compound semiconductor multilayer structure by inductively coupled plasma, which specifically comprises the following steps: s1, patterning a mask on the surface of a compound semiconductor multilayer structure; s2, etching the multilayer structure without the mask by adopting inductively coupled plasma anisotropically in the vertical direction of the surface by using chemical plasma generated by HBr, N2 and other small amount of mixed reaction gas; the invention relates to the technical field of plasma etching methods. According to the method for etching the compound semiconductor multilayer structure by using the inductively coupled plasma, the chemical composition of the InGaAs/InGaAsP/InP multilayer structure is etched by using the inductively coupled plasma to form the anisotropic etching method, compared with a wet etching method, the method for obtaining a smooth etching surface side wall, the ratio of the contact surface width to the active area width is increased, the loss between the optical upper surfaces is reduced, and the characteristics of the device are improved.

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Method for etching compound semiconductor multilayer structure by inductively coupled plasma
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of plasma etching methods, in particular to a method for etching a compound semiconductor multilayer structure by inductively coupled plasma.
Background
Plasma etching, which is a dry etching technique using plasma; higher pressure and less rf power are typically used and the atoms or molecules on the surface of the chip contact and react with reactive atoms in the plasma atmosphere to form gaseous products that leave the crystal plane to cause etching.
The plasma dry etching of iii-v compound semiconductor materials has been widely used In the major processes of most optoelectronic devices, where low roughness is required to be etched on the surface of the InP semiconductor laser resonator, in the grating between the laser and the integrated device, etc., and where well controlled etching rate and selectivity are required, the etching gas CH 4/H2 is a gas commonly used for etching In-based, but is liable to cause deposition of hydrocarbon polymers In the cavity and passivation of the material surface, and the etching rate is slow. The common Cl-based gas used for III-V semiconductor etching is adopted, the reaction product InCl 3 is easy to form InCl x on the surface, the surface is rough and the etching rate is slow, and the physical bombardment can be enhanced by adding Ar to accelerate the dissociative adsorption of In 2Clx, but the surface of the material is easy to be damaged; to this end, the present invention proposes a method of inductively coupled plasma etching a compound semiconductor multilayer structure to solve the above-mentioned problems.
Disclosure of Invention
(One) solving the technical problems
In order to overcome the defects in the prior art, the invention provides a method for etching a compound semiconductor multilayer structure by inductively coupled plasma, which solves the problems mentioned in the background art.
(II) technical scheme
In order to achieve the above purpose, the invention is realized by the following technical scheme: the method for etching the compound semiconductor multilayer structure by inductively coupled plasma specifically comprises the following steps:
S1, patterning a mask on the surface of a compound semiconductor multilayer structure;
S2, etching the multilayer structure without the mask by adopting inductively coupled plasma in the vertical direction of the surface in the chemical plasma generated by HBr, N 2 and other small amount of mixed reaction gas;
Wherein, the inductively coupled plasma utilizes gas molecules such as bromine radical and the generated ions and free radicals to perform physical impact sputtering and chemical etching of the maskless compound semiconductor multilayer structure;
wherein the compound semiconductor multilayer structure includes: inP-p layer, quantum well core layer, inP-n layer, substrate.
Preferably, the patterned mask in the step S1 is SiO 2 deposited by a PECVD apparatus.
Preferably, the compound semiconductor multilayer structure method adopts a photoetching technology to manufacture photoresist patterns on a mask, the etching of the mask adopts reactive ion etching, and after photoresist is removed by organic chemistry, the pattern mask of silicon dioxide is obtained on the compound semiconductor multilayer structure.
Preferably, the multi-layer structure comprising the semiconductor is in an inductively coupled plasma at a temperature above 110 ℃.
Preferably, wherein the semiconductor multilayer structure comprises In but is not limited to InGaAsP, inP, gaAs.
Preferably, the compound semiconductor multilayer structure method further comprises an inductively coupled plasma etcher system.
Preferably, the etching rate is not less than 1 μm/min.
Preferably, the pressure in the inductively coupled plasma etched multilayer structure is greater than 2 millitorr.
Preferably, the semiconductor substrate includes any one of InP, inGaAs, and InGaAsP.
(III) beneficial effects
The invention provides a method for etching a compound semiconductor multilayer structure by inductively coupled plasma. Compared with the prior art, the method has the following beneficial effects:
(1) The inductively coupled plasma etching method for the compound semiconductor multilayer structure adopts the chemical selection of bromine groups, and the vapor pressures InBrx and PBrx of reaction products are relatively low compared with corresponding chlorides; compared with Ar, N 2 has lower ion energy and weakened physical bombardment, thereby meeting the requirement of reducing the etching damage of the material; the technology adopts HBr and N 2 as etching gases to obtain a method for etching the indium-containing compound semiconductor multilayer structure by reasonable parameters, obtains a smooth surface with small surface roughness and controllable amorphous etching rate of 0.11mm/min, and is an etching process suitable for semiconductor optoelectronic devices.
(1) According to the method for etching the compound semiconductor multilayer structure by using the inductively coupled plasma, the chemical composition of the InGaAs/InGaAsP/InP multilayer structure is etched by using the inductively coupled plasma to form the anisotropic etching method, compared with a wet etching method, the smooth etching surface side wall is obtained, the ratio of the contact surface width to the active area width is increased, the loss between the optical upper surfaces is reduced, the characteristics of a device are improved, the device performance is improved, and meanwhile, the difficulty in process control of the current injection surface is remarkably reduced by the technology.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a compound semiconductor multilayer structure provided by the invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the overall structure with high substrate temperature provided by the invention;
FIG. 3 is a flow chart of etching a compound semiconductor multilayer structure provided by the invention;
fig. 4 is a schematic view of an etched surface of a compound semiconductor multilayer structure according to the present invention.
Detailed Description
The following description of the embodiments of the present invention will be made clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which it is apparent that the embodiments described are only some embodiments of the present invention, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the invention without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the invention.
The embodiment of the invention provides the following technical scheme:
the method for etching the compound semiconductor multilayer structure by inductively coupled plasma specifically comprises the following steps:
S1, patterning a mask on the surface of a compound semiconductor multilayer structure;
Wherein the patterned mask is SiO 2 deposited by PECVD equipment, a photoresist pattern is manufactured on the mask by adopting a photoetching technology, the mask is etched by adopting reactive ion etching, and after the photoresist is removed by organic chemistry, the patterned mask of silicon dioxide is obtained on the compound semiconductor multilayer structure, as shown in figure 2;
S2, etching the multilayer structure by using chemical plasmas generated by mixing HBr, N 2 and other small amounts of mixed reaction gases in the vertical direction of the surface in an anisotropic manner, wherein the etching rate is not less than 1 mu m/min, and the pressure in the inductively coupled plasma etching multilayer structure is more than 2 milliTorr;
Wherein the inductively coupled plasma performs physical impact sputtering and chemical etching of the maskless compound semiconductor multilayer structure by using gas molecules such as bromine and generated ions and free radicals, as shown in fig. 3.
The compound semiconductor multilayer structure includes: inP-p layer, quantum well core layer, inP-n layer, substrate, as shown in fig. 1; wherein the semiconductor multilayer structure comprises In but is not limited to InGaAsP, inP, gaAs; the semiconductor substrate includes any one of InP, inGaAs, and InGaAsP.
In the embodiment of the invention, the semiconductor multilayer structure is included in the inductively coupled plasma at the temperature of more than 110 ℃.
In an embodiment of the invention, the method for manufacturing the compound semiconductor multilayer structure further comprises an inductively coupled plasma etching system.
In this embodiment, the bulk structure with high substrate temperature (as shown in fig. 2) is etched using inductively coupled plasma to obtain a vertical and smooth etched surface (as shown in fig. 4), and when HBr/N 2 in inductively coupled plasma is applied to the structure with indium-containing InP and InGaAsP layers in fig. 2, a highly vertical, non-notched, smooth and clean surface is obtained as shown in fig. 4.
And all that is not described in detail in this specification is well known to those skilled in the art.
It is noted that relational terms such as first and second, and the like are used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions. Moreover, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.
Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made therein without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined in the appended claims and their equivalents.

Claims (9)

1. A method for etching a compound semiconductor multilayer structure by inductively coupled plasma, which is characterized by comprising the following steps:
S1, patterning a mask on the surface of a compound semiconductor multilayer structure;
S2, etching the multilayer structure without the mask by adopting inductively coupled plasma in the vertical direction of the surface in the chemical plasma generated by HBr, N 2 and other small amount of mixed reaction gas;
Wherein, the inductively coupled plasma utilizes gas molecules such as bromine radical and the generated ions and free radicals to perform physical impact sputtering and chemical etching of the maskless compound semiconductor multilayer structure;
wherein the compound semiconductor multilayer structure includes: inP-p layer, quantum well core layer, inP-n layer, substrate.
2. The method for inductively coupled plasma etching a compound semiconductor multilayer structure according to claim 1, wherein: the patterned mask in the step S1 is SiO 2 deposited by a PECVD apparatus.
3. The method for inductively coupled plasma etching a compound semiconductor multilayer structure according to claim 1, wherein: the compound semiconductor multilayer structure method adopts a photoetching technology to manufacture photoresist patterns on a mask, the etching of the mask adopts reactive ion etching, and after photoresist is removed by organic chemistry, the pattern mask of silicon dioxide is obtained on the compound semiconductor multilayer structure.
4. The method for inductively coupled plasma etching a compound semiconductor multilayer structure according to claim 1, wherein: the semiconductor multilayer structure is included in an inductively coupled plasma at a temperature above 110 ℃.
5. The method for inductively coupled plasma etching a compound semiconductor multilayer structure according to claim 1, wherein: wherein the semiconductor multilayer structure comprises In but is not limited to InGaAsP, inP, gaAs.
6. The method for inductively coupled plasma etching a compound semiconductor multilayer structure according to claim 1, wherein: the compound semiconductor multilayer structure method further includes an inductively coupled plasma etcher system.
7. The method for inductively coupled plasma etching a compound semiconductor multilayer structure according to claim 1, wherein: the etching rate is not less than 1 μm/min.
8. The method for inductively coupled plasma etching a compound semiconductor multilayer structure according to claim 1, wherein: the inductively coupled plasma etches the multilayer structure at a pressure greater than 2 millitorr.
9. The method for inductively coupled plasma etching a compound semiconductor multilayer structure according to claim 1, wherein: wherein the semiconductor substrate comprises any one of InP, inGaAs and InGaAsP.
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