화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Vol.145, No.4, 1273-1276, 1998
Ultrasmooth V-grooves in InP by two-step wet chemical etching
A two-step wet chemical etching process using HBr and HBr:K2Cr2O7 was developed in order to fabricate high-quality V-grooves in InP (100) wafers. A 40 nm titanium film, which was patterned by conventional photolithography and liftoff, was used as the etching mask. The {111}A sidewalls are mirrorlike with an arithmetic average roughness of less than 0.4 nm. The tip radius of the V-grooves is approximately 7 nm. Both values were determined by atomic force microscopy.