### Session BT2: Plasma Boundaries: Sheaths and Boundary Layers

8:00 AM–9:30 AM, Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Holiday Inn Room: Salon B

Chair: M.A. Lieberman, University of California, Berkeley

Abstract ID: BAPS.2006.GEC.BT2.5

### Abstract: BT2.00005 : Influence of a micro-scale wafer structure upon sheath profile in 2f-CCP in SF$_6$/O$_2$

9:00 AM–9:15 AM

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#### Authors:

Fukutaro Hamaoka
Takashi Yagisawa
Toshiaki Makabe
(Keio University)

MEMS-dry processes have been developed on the basis of plasma technologies in microelectronic device fabrications. Deep Si etching for MEMS requires a high speed, selective and anisotropic process having several tens or hundreds $\mu$m in width and depth as compared with that of ULSI elements. During the MEMS process at hundreds mTorr, the sheath thickness in front of the surface to be etched will be comparable to or smaller than the trench/hole width, and a distorted sheath field will have a strong influence on the incident ion flux and velocity distribution (i.e., plasma molding). In the present study, we will estimate the local characteristics of the plasma molding, i.e., the ion velocity distribution incident on a micro scale patterned wafer by using a series of repetitive calculation of the structure from cm to $\mu$m in 2f-CCP in SF$_6$/O$_2$ at 300 mTorr. Further investigation will be given for the feature profile of a Si-MEMS by plasma etching in the 2f-CCP system.

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