Background technology
Microelectromechanical systems (Micro-Electro-Mechanical System, MEMS) technology have small, intelligent, can perform, the plurality of advantages such as accessible site, processing compatibility are good, cost is low, therefore it has started to be widely used in the numerous areas comprising infrared detection technique field.Infrared Detectors is a kind of MEMS product applied in infrared detection technique field widely, it utilizes detector sensitive material (being generally non-crystalline silicon or vanadium oxide) absorb infrared ray and convert it into the signal of telecommunication, realize thermal imaging function accordingly, it can be used for the safety detection of electric power networks, the detection of forest fire alarm and the detection of human body temperature and other places.
In Infrared Detectors, the quality of quality on Infrared Detectors of detector sensitive material and metal electrode has extremely important impact.Prior art is when manufacturing Infrared Detectors; first deposit detector sacrifice layer on a silicon substrate successively by chemical vapor deposition method (CVD); release guard and supporting layer; and detector sensitive material; then depositing metal layers on this detector sensitive material; then make metal electrode figure by lithography, then by wet method or dry etch process the metal level that sensitive material detecting layer does not have photoresist to protect removed and form metal electrode.Above-mentioned direct depositing metal layers on detector sensitive material also forms the technique of metal electrode because directly etching on detector sensitive material by photoetching and etching technics, etching injury or pollution can be formed on this detector sensitive material, these pollute or damage can produce harmful effect to the quality of Infrared Detectors, such as its uniformity, sensitivity can reduce greatly, produce short circuit between metal electrode.
It should be noted that; when manufacturing Infrared Detectors; also comprise and remove sacrificial layer material to form the step of half unsettled micro-bridge structure by release process; this micro-bridge structure is by support layer supports; therefore release guard and supporting layer all have very important effect for this step and whole infrared detector structure; when specifically making, double-layer structure can be adopted respectively as release guard layer and supporting layer, a Rotating fields also can be adopted simultaneously to realize the effect of release guard and support.But the manufacturing process about micro-bridge structure and release guard and supporting layer is not emphasis of the present invention, therefore does not do further expansion at this.
Summary of the invention
The technical problem that the present invention solves is to provide a kind of Infrared Detectors and manufacture method thereof, affects the quality of Infrared Detectors to avoid when manufacturing Infrared Detectors damage or pollution detection device sensitive material.
For solving the problems of the technologies described above; the invention provides a kind of Infrared Detectors; comprise silicon substrate, be formed at detector sacrifice layer, release guard and supporting layer on silicon substrate successively, and the metal electrode be formed at successively on release guard and supporting layer and detector sensitive material.Wherein, described detector sensitive material is formed at surface of metal electrode and the release guard do not covered by metal electrode and support layer surface, or described detector sensitive material is covered in release guard and support layer surface and is filled between adjacent metal electrode.
Correspondingly, present invention also offers a kind of Infrared Detectors manufacture method, it comprises the following steps: 1) make detector sacrifice layer on a silicon substrate; 2) on detector sacrifice layer, supporting layer is made; 3) on supporting layer, deposition prepares metal level; 4) on described metal level, photoresist is coated with and chemical wet etching goes out metal electrode; 5) in the device architecture surface deposition detector sensitive material that step 4 completes.
Compared with prior art, a kind of Infrared Detectors provided by the invention and manufacture method thereof, first make metal electrode, and realize it graphically by chemical wet etching, and then deposit detector sensitive material.Because detector sensitive material has made the chemical wet etching operation that can not experience metal electrode afterwards again, thus subsequent technique is greatly reduced to the etching injury of detector sensitive material and pollution, and the short circuit between metal electrode can be avoided, correspondingly greatly can improve the performance of this Infrared Detectors, yield rate and reliability.
Detailed description of the invention
Be described in detail, to understanding technical scheme of the present invention, object and beneficial effect further below in conjunction with the preferred embodiment of accompanying drawing to a kind of Infrared Detectors provided by the invention and manufacture method thereof.
First embodiment
Fig. 1 is the sectional view of Infrared Detectors of the present invention.Infrared Detectors comprises: silicon substrate 1, detector sacrifice layer 2, release guard and the supporting layer 3 be sequentially laminated on silicon substrate 1, metal electrode 40, sensitive material detecting layer 5.Wherein detector sacrifice layer 2 is porous silicon or non-crystalline silicon sacrifice layer or silica (SiO2), detector sensitive material 5 is non-crystalline silicon or vanadium oxide or other materials, release guard and supporting layer 3 can be silica (SiO2), silicon oxynitride (SiON), silicon nitride (SiN), carborundum (SiC) or other are based on silicon (Si), oxygen (O), carbon (C), the dielectric film of nitrogen (N) or other compositions, also can be the above-mentioned film of non-stoichiometric, the silica of such as oxygen enrichment or Silicon-rich, also can be and be mixed with boron (B), phosphorus (P), the above-mentioned film of carbon (C) or other elements, such as fluorine silex glass (FSG), boron-phosphorosilicate glass (BPSG) or phosphorosilicate glass (PSG) etc.
Refer to Fig. 1 and composition graphs 2, Fig. 2 is the Infrared Detectors manufacture method flow chart shown in Fig. 1.Infrared Detectors manufacture method of the present invention comprises the following steps:
Step S1, makes detector sacrifice layer 2 on a silicon substrate.In the present embodiment, described detector sacrifice layer 2 is polyimides (polymide) or silicon (Si) or silica (SiO2), it is made by coating or chemical vapor deposition method (CVD), and is discharged by chemical etching process.
Step S2, detector sacrifice layer 2 makes release guard and supporting layer 3.Described release guard and supporting layer 3 are by ald (ALD), low-pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD), plasma reinforced chemical vapour deposition (PECVD), aumospheric pressure cvd (APCVD), sub-aumospheric pressure cvd (SACVD), the preparation of high density plasma CVD (HDPCVD) technique.In the present embodiment, this release guard and supporting layer 3 adopt double-layer structure to realize, and wherein, release guard layer is silica, and supporting layer is silicon nitride.
Step S3, prepares metal level 4 by deposited by physical vapour deposition (PVD), and described metal level 4 can be titanium, tantalum, titanium nitride, tantalum nitride, the titanium nitride of stacked on top of one another and the tantalum of titanium or stacked on top of one another and tantalum nitride.In the present embodiment, described metal level 4 is titanium nitride and the titanium of stacked on top of one another.Device architecture after completing steps S3 refers to Fig. 3.
Step S4, described metal level 4 is coated with photoresist and chemical wet etching goes out described metal electrode 40.Its metal electrode etching technics is parked on release guard and supporting layer 3; metal electrode 40 is greater than a preset security value with the etching selection ratio of release guard and supporting layer 3; described preset security value is 10, this by etching gas be argon gas (Ar), the dry plasma etch technique of fluoroform (CHF3), boron chloride (BCl3) or chlorine (Cl2) etches described metal electrode.In the present embodiment, the dry plasma etch technique being argon gas by etching gas etches described metal electrode 4.
See Fig. 4, and combine the structure showing the Infrared Detectors after completing steps S4 see Fig. 3, Fig. 4, as shown in the figure, patterned metal electrode 40 is positioned on release guard and supporting layer 3.
Step S5; on metal electrode 40 and the release guard do not covered by metal electrode 40 and supporting layer 3 surface; make detector sensitive material 5 by chemical vapor deposition method, described chemical vapor deposition method can be ALD, LPCVD, PECVD, APCVD, SACVD or HDPCVD.In the present embodiment, detector sensitive material 5 is the non-crystalline silicon of boron-doping.
See Fig. 1, and combine the structure showing the Infrared Detectors after completing steps S5 see Fig. 3 and Fig. 4, Fig. 1, as shown in the figure, detector sensitive material 5 is positioned on the metal electrode 40 graphically.
Second embodiment
The manufacture method of the present embodiment and the difference of the first embodiment are; after step S5; namely on the infrared detector structure basis shown in Fig. 1, a step is added: removal unit detector-dividing sensitive material, to expose metal electrode 40 or release guard and supporting layer 3 or sacrifice layer 2.
Detector sensitive material remove number according to technique need and determine; if only metal electrode 40 need be exposed; then only need on the infrared detector structure basis shown in Fig. 1; the detector sensitive material covered on metal electrode 40 is etched away; and planarization in addition; complete the infrared detector structure figure after making as shown in Figure 5, this detector sensitive material 5 ' be covered in release guard and supporting layer 3 surface and be filled between adjacent metal electrode 40.If need to expose release guard and supporting layer 3; as long as then the detector sensitive material of corresponding part is etched away; as sacrifice layer 2 need be exposed further, then continue release guard and the supporting layer 3 of etching corresponding part, thus obtain required panel detector structure.
From foregoing description, a kind of Infrared Detectors provided by the invention and manufacture method thereof, before the making step of metal electrode being put into the deposition step of detector sensitive material, subsequent technique so can be avoided to damage or pollution detection device sensitive material, and avoid the short circuit between electrode, greatly can improve the performance of Infrared Detectors, yield rate and reliability simultaneously.
It should be noted that, the Infrared Detectors described in the present invention can be non-refrigeration type Infrared Detectors or refrigeration-type Infrared Detectors.