Fabrication of nanometer-size Si wires using a bevelSiO2wall as an electron cyclotron resonance plasma etching mask
作者:
Kenichi Ishii,
Eiichi Suzuki,
Toshihiro Sekigawa,
期刊:
Journal of Vacuum Science&Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures Processing, Measurement, and Phenomena
(AIP Available online 1997)
卷期:
Volume 15,
issue 3
页码: 543-547
ISSN:1071-1023
年代: 1997
DOI:10.1116/1.589289
出版商: American Vacuum Society
关键词: Si
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
We have investigated a fabrication technique of nm size Si wires utilizing a bevelSiO2wall on a (111) surface as an electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) plasma etching mask. The bevel (111) surface is obtained by anisotropic etching of a (100) silicon-on-insulator layer. Small-size Si wires of around 20–25 nm are successfully obtained underneath the bevelSiO2wall. It is shown that a local oxidation of silicon process to form the bevelSiO2wall affects the cross-sectional shape of the small-size Si wires in the ECR plasma etching process. It is also indicated that a self-limiting oxidation takes place in such small-size Si wires. By thermal oxidation of the small-size Si wires, an ultrasmall cross-sectional size of around 1×nm2is realized. In addition, a Coulomb blockade effect is observed in an experimental nm size Si wire metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor.
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