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Abstract
Characters of the disclosed detector structure are that the suspension film structure as infrared absorption layer possesses etched openings in multi shapes; using isotropic dry etching etches substrate from front face so as to form release device in suspension film structure; substrate of detector and the infrared absorption layer suspended at middle of frame constitute cold junction area and hot junction area of thermopile respectively; being connected to frame and infrared absorption area, support arm loads and supports the thermopile; middle suspended infrared absorption layer with etched openings in multi shapes is as channel for working gas to enter substrate ca carry out reaction in dry etching. Common material used in normal CMOS technique is adopted so as to be easy to integrate to signal process circuit. Comparing with traditional wet etching, the invention simplifies technical flow, lowers requirement for mask aligner, and widens available materials for detector.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of micromachined thermopile infrared detector and preparation method thereof, a kind of more precisely micromachined thermopile infrared detector based on MEMS (Micro Electro-Mechanical System) technology and Seebeck effect and preparation method thereof belongs to the Infrared Detectors field.
Background technology
Along with infrared detection technique improves day by day in the status in military and civilian field, non-refrigeration infrared sensor development rapidly.Thermopile IR detector is a kind of thermal infrared detector that develops the earliest, and its operation principle is based on Seebeck effect (T.H.Geballe and G.W.Hull, Seebeck effect in Silicon, Phys.Rev.98,940-947 (1955)).This effect is pointed out the thermocouple that two kinds of different materials are formed, if having temperature difference between two nodes of closed-loop path, will produce electromotive force in the loop.
Early stage thermopile IR detector is the method for utilizing vacuum coating, the thermocouple material deposited to obtain on plastics or the alumina substrate, and device size is bigger, also is difficult for producing in batches.Development along with microelectromechanical systems MEMS technology, nineteen eighty-two, the K.D.Wise etc. of Univ Michigan-Ann Arbor USA took the lead in adopting the micromechanics means to make the silica-based thermopile IR detector of two kinds of closing membrane structures (G.R.Lahijiand K.D.Wise, A Batch-Fabricated Silicon Thermopile Infrared Detector, IEEETrans.ED, Vol.29, No.1, Jan 1982,14-22), the thermocouple material is respectively Bi-Sb and Si-Au.According to materials classification, mainly comprise the metal thermocouple, silicon-metal thermocouple, and silicon-silicon thermocouple.The material that constitutes the metal thermocouple mainly is Bi-Sb and their alloy.1998, M.C.Foote etc. utilized Te and Bi, and the alloy of Sb constitutes thermocouple, has obtained to have very high detectivity D
*Micromachined thermopile infrared detector alignment (M.C.Foote, E.W.Jones and T.Caillat, UncooledThermopile Infrared Detector Linear Arrays with Detectivity Greater than 10 with responsiveness
9CmHz
1/2/ W.IEEE Trans ED, Vol.45, No.9, Sep 1998,1896-1902).The silicon-metal thermocouple mainly is polysilicon-Jin thermocouple and silicon/polysilicon-aluminothermy idol.1994, it is the micro mechanical thermopile detector of polysilicon-Jin that K.D.Wise etc. have made the thermocouple material, and device is 32 yuan a array, and each unit has 40 couples of thermocouple (W.G.Baer, K.Najafi, K.D.Wise and R.S.Toth, A 32-ElementMicromachined Thermal Imager With On-Chip Multiplexing, Sensors andActuators A, Vol.48, No.1, May 1995,47-54).At polysilicon-aluminothermy prescription with ingredients even in number face, R.Lenggenhager in 1992 etc. utilize the detector of industrial CMOS fabrication techniques to abandon the structure of original silicon support membrane, replace silica-silicon nitride complex media membrane structure (R.Lenggenhager, H.Baltes, J.Peer and M.Forster, Thermoelectric Infrared Sensors by CMOS Technology, IEEE Electron Device Letters, Vol.13, No.9, Sep 1992,454-456).Afterwards, R.Lenggenhager etc. have attempted again from the scheme of silicon chip front etch releasing structure, and increased infrared absorption layer (R.Leggenhager, H.Baltes and T.Elbel, Thermoelectric Infrared Sensors inCMOS Technology, Sensors and Actuators A, 1993, Vol.37-38,216-220).1997, Z.Olgun etc. use N-polysilicon and P-polysilicon to form thermocouple, and utilize the electrochemistry etch stop technology of TMAH to make micromachined thermopile infrared detector, this combination has bigger Seebeck coefficient (Z.Olgun, O.Akar, H.Kulah and T.Akin, An Integrated ThermopileStructure with High Responsivity Using Any Standard CMOS Process, 1997International Conference on Solid State Sensors and Actuators, Transducers ' 97, Chicago, June 16-19,1997, Vol.2,1263-1266).In addition, utilize the research of GaAs matrix and SOI matrix in addition.Nineteen ninety-five, M.M ü ller etc. has made on the SOI matrix and has comprised thermoelectric pile, the integrated Infrared Detectors of analogue amplifier and temperature sensor (M.M ü ller, W.Budde, R.Gottfried-Gottfried, A.H ü bel, R.
And H.K ü ck, A Thermoelectric InfraredRadiation Sensor with Monolithically Integrated Amplifier Stage andTemperature Sensor, The 8
ThInternational Conference on Solid-State Sensors andActuators, Eurosensors IX, Transducers ' 95, June25-29,1995, Vol.2,640-643).
Micromachined thermopile infrared detector mainly comprises thermoelectric pile and infrared absorption layer.Thermoelectric pile is mainly right by thermocouple, and cold junction district and thermojunction district form.In order to improve the performance of detector, need good heat insulation structural usually, make the thermojunction district slow to the heat conduction in cold junction district, strengthen Seebeck effect.In the silica-based thermoelectric pile, generally with silicon substrate as the cold junction district, the thermojunction district is chosen on the deielectric-coating that supports thermoelectric pile, i.e. infrared absorption layer.Typical suspension film structure thermopile detector structure as shown in Figure 1.Support membrane is generally the composite membrane of silica and silicon nitride, itself infrared radiation is had certain absorption, but not obvious, composite construction also helps and reduces stress.When cold junction district temperature constant, the intensity that strengthens infrared radiation can improve the temperature in thermojunction district, thereby improves device performance.So the infrared absorption layer of growing on support membrane utilizes its high-absorbility and wide spectrum absorption characteristic to infrared radiation, can significantly improve detector performance.Desirable infrared absorption layer should have very high absorptivity and less film thickness.
There was following problem in the infrared thermopile detector of Zhi Zuoing in the past: the first, though the metal thermocouple has the bigger figure of merit, its manufacturing process and standard CMOS process are incompatible.The second, traditional corrosion dorsad needs positive and negative aligning, and is very high to the mask aligner requirement, and limited device size and then influenced performance.The 3rd, mostly existing forward corrosion technology is to adopt the TMAH wet etching, and this has just limited the shape and the orientation of corrosion opening, also need pay special attention to protect some material not to be corroded.These problems affect the raising of the performance of detector own, more hindered integrated with signal processing circuit.
Summary of the invention
Problem at the conventional method existence, particularly with the compatible relatively poor shortcoming of standard CMOS process, the object of the invention is to provide a kind of micromachined thermopile infrared detector and preparation method thereof, the invention provides a kind of thermoelectric pile structure of front openings, adopt the dry etch process releasing structure, as shown in Figure 2.Whole detector comprises substrate, framework, thermoelectric pile, support arm, infrared absorption layer, six parts such as corrosion opening.Wherein, the substrate infrared absorption layer middle with being suspended in framework constitutes the cold junction district and the thermojunction district of thermoelectric pile respectively, and support arm plays the purpose of connecting frame and INFRARED ABSORPTION district and carrying thermoelectric pile.Support arm and infrared absorption layer are to be made of the silica of deposit on monocrystalline silicon and silicon nitride composite membrane.The concrete feature of this structure is to have made intermediate suspended infrared absorption layer, and has designed and have the corrosion opening that is used for the dry etching matrix.Because the isotropism of dry etching, the shape of corrosion opening can be varied, and being different from the wet etching opening must strict arrange along particular crystal orientation, thereby increased the flexibility of design greatly.Being shaped as of described corrosion opening is square, circular or fan-shaped, and needn't consider particular crystal orientation, and opening provides passage for the substrate that the dry etching working gas enters reacts.
Described substrate is that the monocrystalline silicon piece in any crystal orientation or soi wafer support arm and infrared absorption layer are by the silica on the silicon substrate-silicon nitride composite dielectric film, can also be that the sandwich structure that constitutes silica-silicon-nitride and silicon oxide is formed but be not limited to double-layer structure; And on the SOI substrate, directly constitute by oxidation one deck silica, and needn't form the two layer medium film.
The Infrared Detectors that the present invention proposes is based on the processing of MEMS technology.The most tangible characteristic is to utilize dry etching from front etch monocrystalline silicon or SOI substrate, thereby forms the infrared absorption layer of suspension film structure.Dry etching has fabulous selectivity, can select some only to corrode silicon, and to the minimum gas of material corrosion speed such as aluminium (as XeF
2) as working gas.So just can adopt material the most frequently used in the standard CMOS process to constitute thermocouple (as Al/Poly Si, Al/Si, N-Poly Si/P-PolySi, Au/Si etc., but be not limited thereto), thereby improve compatibility greatly.
The right geometric configuration of described thermocouple can be parallel to each limit of framework, can be along to diagonal or multiple scheme such as can radially uniformly-spaced arrange.
Concrete processing step comprises that composite dielectric film forms, polysilicon strip forms, fairlead forms, bonding jumper forms, the corrosion opening forms and isotropic dry etching forms suspension film, releasing structure etc. from the front etch substrate.Specifically be characterised in that and can select in following two kinds of methods any one for use:
One of method:
1. the growth of composite dielectric film, on the monocrystalline substrate of polishing, at first hot growing silicon oxide again with LPCVD or PECVD deposited silicon nitride, forms the complex media membrane structure of silica-silicon nitride;
2. form polysilicon strip, use the LPCVD deposit spathic silicon on the two layer medium film, mixing makes its conduction; Litho pattern, corrosion forms polysilicon strip, as a kind of component of thermocouple;
3. lithography fair lead, on the polysilicon that step forms in 2., silicon oxide deposition or oxidation polysilicon be as insulating barrier, the lithography fair lead figure;
4. form bonding jumper and thermocouple, the hydatogenesis metal, photoetching metal wire, corroding metal and polysilicon form thermocouple to structure;
5. photoetching corrosion opening is as the gas passage of dry etching;
6. dry etching releasing structure, XeF
2Working gas forms the absorbed layer that suspends, releasing structure via the 5. middle opening etched substrate that forms of step;
Two of method:
1. with the polished SOI silicon chip, form surface oxidation silicon;
2. be mask with the silica of step in 1., litho pattern, etching forms the monocrystalline silicon strip, as a kind of component of thermocouple;
3. oxidation forms silica, uses the LPCVD deposit silicon nitride again, forms composite dielectric film, the lithography fair lead pattern;
4. depositing metal materials of aluminum, the photoetching metal wire, the thermocouple that forms monocrystalline silicon and metal is to structure;
5. at silicon chip front photoetching corrosion opening, as the gas passage of dry etching;
6. use XeF
2Via corrosion opening etched substrate, form suspension film, releasing structure.
The dry etching releasing structure uses the good XeF of selectivity
2As working gas, the speed of promptly corroding silicon is very fast, to the very little gas of corrosion rate of other materials (as aluminium, silicon dioxide, silicon nitride etc.).
Employing Al/Poly Si formation thermocouple among the present invention (but be not limited to these materials, and can also adopt Al/Si, N-Poly Si/P-Poly Si, Au/Si etc.), utilize the corrosion opening to carry out the last releasing structure of front dry etching.The chemical property of aluminium is more active, all can react in traditional wet etching liquid such as TMAH or KOH.Because dry etching has good selectivity, select for use suitable working gas in corrosion silicon, can corrode aluminium hardly.
The invention has the advantages that and use dry etching to reduce technology difficulty on the one hand, avoided the problems of wet etching.For example, the inevitable impact of wet etching solution may damage device architecture, and this has just limited device size, can not make bigger absorbed layer, also causes malformation easily even breaks or problem such as adhesion.Make the corrosion open design diversified more on the other hand, and then can optimize the geometric configuration of detector.Use Al/Poly Si as the thermocouple material, solved the problem of metal thermocouple and CMOS processing compatibility difference, increased alternative thermocouple material category.Front etch has reduced the requirement of positive and negative aligning to mask aligner, has reduced production cost.All structures all are made of modal material in the standard CMOS process, are convenient to back end signal treatment circuits such as analogue amplifier are incorporated in the transducer, and real realization integrates the MEMS system that signal produces and handles.
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Fig. 1 is the micromachined thermopile infrared detector schematic diagram of typical suspension film structure.
Fig. 2 is the infrared detector structure schematic diagram that the present invention proposes.Fig. 2-1: stereogram, Fig. 2-2: profile.
Fig. 3 is the concrete technological process of embodiment example 1 described device.
Fig. 4 is the Infrared Detectors vertical view that the present invention proposes.
Fig. 4-1: embodiment 1 described device vertical view;
Fig. 4-2: embodiment 2 and embodiment 3 described device vertical views;
Fig. 4-3: embodiment 4 described device vertical views.
The implication of each digitized representation is among the figure:
1. substrate, 2. thermoelectric pile, 3. infrared absorption layer, 4. cold junction district, 5. thermojunction district, 6. support arm, 7. corrosion opening, 8. framework, 9. silica, 10. silicon nitride, 11. polysilicon strips, 12. fairleads, 13. metal wires.
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Below in conjunction with technological process provided by the present invention, specifically illustrate the concrete structure of this detector.
(1) on the monocrystalline silicon piece 1 of polishing, high-temperature oxydation forms thermal oxidation silicon 9, uses LPCVD deposited silicon nitride 10 then, so just forms the complex media membrane structure of silica-silicon nitride.See Fig. 3-1.
(2) in (1), deposit one deck polysilicon again with LPCVD again on the composite dielectric film, mix, make it have certain thin-film electro resistance.High-temperature oxydation then forms the silica 9 of thin layer at polysilicon surface, as the mask of wet etching.Photoetching polysilicon strip figure is a mask with the photoresist,, removes photoresist then earlier with the diluted hydrofluoric acid corrosion oxidation silicon that adds buffer, and with the silica mask, with KOH wet etching polysilicon at a certain temperature, form polysilicon strip 11, as a kind of component of thermocouple.See Fig. 3-2.
(3) LPCVD silicon oxide deposition 9 or oxidation polysilicon form silica, form deielectric-coating jointly with original silicon nitride.Lithography fair lead figure 12, fairlead use so that metal and polysilicon form ohmic contact.With the photoresist is mask, removes silica with the diluted hydrofluoric acid that adds the buffer ammonium fluoride, obtains the fairlead figure.See Fig. 3-3.
(4) with evaporimeter deposition of aluminum (metal material is not limited to aluminium), then photoetching metal wire 13 carries out alloying technology after the corrosion under nitrogen protection, and the thermocouple that has formed polysilicon and metal is to structure.See Fig. 3-4.
(5), form the passage that the dry etching working gas enters matrix 1 at silicon chip front photoetching corrosion opening 7.See Fig. 3-5.
(6) use XeF
2 Via corrosion opening 7 dry etching matrix silicon 1, form the suspension film structure and discharge device.See Fig. 3-6.
(1), forms surface oxidation silicon 9 with 1 oxidation of polished SOI silicon chip.
(2) be mask with the silica in (1) 9, litho pattern, corrosion oxidation silicon, etching forms 14 (being equivalent to the polysilicon strip 11 in the example 1) of monocrystalline silicon strip pattern, as a kind of component of thermocouple.
(3) oxidation forms silica 9, uses LPCVD deposit silicon nitride 10 again, forms deielectric-coating.The lithography fair lead pattern, the etching deielectric-coating forms fairlead 12.
(4) deposit aluminium (metal material is not limited to aluminium), then photoetching metal wire 13 carries out alloying technology after the corrosion under nitrogen protection, and the thermocouple that has formed monocrystalline silicon and metal is to structure.
(5), form the passage that the dry etching working gas enters matrix 1 at silicon chip front photoetching corrosion opening 7.
(6) use XeF
2 Via corrosion opening 7 dry etching matrix silicon 1, form the suspension film structure and discharge device.
Its concrete implementation step part is identical with embodiment 1, and the main distinction is: the first, the polysilicon strip 11 among the embodiment 1 (2) is revised as along diagonal by being parallel to each limit, uptake zone.The second, the corrosion opening among the embodiment 1 (5) 7 is revised as circle by square, remainder is constant.Step (1), (3), (4) are identical with corresponding steps among the embodiment 1.
Embodiment 4
Its concrete implementation step part is identical with embodiment 1, and the main distinction is: the first, the polysilicon strip 11 among the embodiment 1 (2) is revised as along the uptake zone radially uniformly-spaced arrangement by being parallel to each limit, uptake zone.The second, change the metal 13 among the embodiment 1 (4) into gold, remainder is constant.Step (1), (3), (5) are identical with corresponding steps among the embodiment 1.
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1, micromechanics pyroelectric infrared detector is characterized in that described detector is to be made of substrate, framework, thermoelectric pile, support arm, infrared absorption layer and corrosion opening six parts;
Wherein 1) substrate and be suspended in cold junction district and the thermojunction district that infrared absorption layer in the middle of the framework constitutes thermoelectric pile respectively;
2) support arm connecting frame and infrared absorption layer and carry thermoelectric pile;
3) intermediate suspended infrared absorption layer has difform corrosion opening, enters the passage that substrate reacts as the dry etching working gas;
4) support arm and infrared absorption layer are on substrate.
2, by the described micromechanics pyroelectric infrared detector of claim 1, it is characterized in that described substrate is the monocrystalline silicon or the soi wafer in any crystal orientation.
3,, it is characterized in that support arm and infrared absorption layer be made up of silica on the silicon substrate-silicon nitride composite dielectric film or silica-silicon-nitride and silicon oxide sandwich structure by claim 1 or 2 described micromechanics pyroelectric infrared detectors.
4, by the described micromechanics pyroelectric infrared detector of claim 1, it is characterized in that support arm and infrared absorption layer on the SOI substrate, directly constitute, and do not form the two layer medium film by oxidation one deck silica.
5,, it is characterized in that being shaped as of described corrosion opening is square, circular or fan-shaped, and needn't consider particular crystal orientation by the described micromechanics pyroelectric infrared detector of claim 1.
6, make as any described micromechanics pyroelectric infrared detector method of claim 1-5, it is characterized in that using isotropic dry etching to form suspension film structure release device, can select in following two kinds of methods any one for use from the front etch substrate:
One of method:
1. the growth of composite dielectric film, on the monocrystalline substrate of polishing, at first hot growing silicon oxide again with LPCVD or PECVD deposited silicon nitride, forms the complex media membrane structure of silica-silicon nitride;
2. form polysilicon strip, use the LPCVD deposit spathic silicon on the two layer medium film, mixing makes its conduction; Litho pattern, corrosion forms polysilicon strip, as a kind of component of thermocouple;
3. lithography fair lead.On the polysilicon that step forms in 2., silicon oxide deposition or oxidation polysilicon be as insulating barrier, the lithography fair lead figure;
4. form bonding jumper and thermocouple.The hydatogenesis metal, photoetching metal wire, corroding metal and polysilicon form thermocouple to structure;
5. photoetching corrosion opening is as the gas passage of dry etching;
6. dry etching releasing structure, XeF
2Working gas forms the absorbed layer that suspends via the 5. middle opening etched substrate that forms of step, and structure discharges device;
Two of method:
1. with the polished SOI silicon chip, form surface oxidation silicon;
2. be mask with the silica of step in 1., litho pattern, etching forms the monocrystalline silicon strip, as a kind of component of thermocouple;
3. oxidation forms silica, uses the LPCVD deposit silicon nitride again, forms composite dielectric film, the lithography fair lead pattern;
4. depositing metal materials of aluminum, the photoetching metal wire, the thermocouple that forms monocrystalline silicon and metal is to structure;
5. at silicon chip front photoetching corrosion opening, as the gas passage of dry etching;
6. use XeF
2Via corrosion opening etched substrate, form the suspension film structure and discharge device.
7, by the manufacture method of the described micromechanics pyroelectric infrared detector of claim 6, it is characterized in that the right geometric configuration of described thermocouple for be parallel to framework, along diagonal and radially uniformly-spaced in the arrangement any one.
8, by the manufacture method of claim 6 or 7 described micromechanics pyroelectric infrared detectors, it is characterized in that thermocouple is an aluminium to metal.
9, by the manufacture method of claim 6 or 7 described micromechanics pyroelectric infrared detectors, it is characterized in that thermocouple is Al/ polycrystalline Si, Al/Si, N-polycrystalline Si/P-polycrystalline Si or Au/Si to material.
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