CN108227243A - Automatically controlled THz wave regulation and control device of silicon substrate all dielectric type and preparation method thereof - Google Patents

Automatically controlled THz wave regulation and control device of silicon substrate all dielectric type and preparation method thereof Download PDF

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CN108227243A
CN108227243A CN201810054913.XA CN201810054913A CN108227243A CN 108227243 A CN108227243 A CN 108227243A CN 201810054913 A CN201810054913 A CN 201810054913A CN 108227243 A CN108227243 A CN 108227243A
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The present invention provides automatically controlled THz wave regulation and control device of a kind of silicon substrate all dielectric type and preparation method thereof, including double-deck cylindrical silicon micrometer structure, HR-Si substrate, doped silicon interdigital electrode, silica nanometer oxide layer and vanadium dioxide film, double-deck cylindrical silicon micrometer structure is located at the upside of HR-Si substrate, and doped silicon interdigital electrode, silica nanometer oxide layer, vanadium dioxide film are sequentially located at the downside of HR-Si substrate from top to bottom;Semiconductor high resistant silicon materials are chosen in the present invention as main medium material, it is ripe to obtain easy, at low cost and semiconducter process;This device has very high THz wave transmissivity and extremely low device Insertion Loss, while has big bandwidth of operation;It can effectively inhibit Joule heat caused by electric current, and then improve devices switch speed by introducing oxide insulating layer between vanadium dioxide film and doped silicon interdigital electrode, can be widely applied to the fields such as THz wave detection, THz wave imaging.

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Automatically controlled THz wave regulation and control device of silicon substrate all dielectric type and preparation method thereof
Technical field
The invention belongs to THz wave applied technical field, specially a kind of automatically controlled THz wave regulation and control of silicon substrate all dielectric type Device and preparation method thereof.
Background technology
THz wave (terahertz wave) be its wave band between millimeter wave and infrared waves, frequency is in 0.1- 10THz, wavelength are the electromagnetic spectrum in the range of 30 μm of -3mm.With unique electromagnetic property, in electromagnetic spectrum in occupation of Critical positions.Terahertz science and technology is grown rapidly in recent years, wireless communication, detection imaging, electronic countermeasure, The fields such as safety inspection, biomedical diagnostic and environmental monitoring play leading superiority, have very important application value, to state People's economy and national defense construction are of great significance.In such applications, terahertz imaging and the communication technology are by increasingly More people's concerns, and Terahertz modulator is essential critical component in its system, the quality for regulating and controlling device directly affects To the performance quality of whole system.
Silicon substrate Terahertz modulator is widely paid close attention to, example because can be mutually compatible with existing semiconductor technology Such as document:Wen T,Zhang D,Wen Q,et al.Enhanced Optical Modulation Depth of Terahertz Waves by Self‐Assembled Monolayer of Plasmonic Gold Nanoparticles [J] .Advanced Optical Materials, propose a kind of light-operated Terahertz modulator of silicon substrate in 2016,4., but this In a little devices, since the refractive index of Si substrates is higher, cause very big device loss, device Insertion Loss is up to 3-5dB, Er Qieyou It is not compatible with existing high integration electronic device in using light control techniques.
Vanadium dioxide (VO2) it is a kind of room temperature insulator-metal phase transition (MIT) material, it is in heat, light or electric field driven Lower to occur from insulation mutually to the transformation of metal phase, conductivity can generally have the variation of 3 to 5 orders of magnitude.In insulator phase When, vanadium dioxide has excellent transparent characteristic to THz wave, absorbs and reflection loss is very small;And during in metal phase, Vanadium dioxide can generate THz wave very strong reflection and partially absorb.Therefore, using the phase transformation of vanadium dioxide film, It can realize the amplitude regulation and control to THz wave.However, using traditional light and heat driving method, additional light and heat are needed Device can not be integrated with the microelectronics system of current mainstream.And although solves electronic system compatibility using electric drive mode Sex chromosome mosaicism, but used metal electrode has THz wave strong reflex, significantly increases device Insertion Loss.It is heavier It wants, using conventional bias load mode driving VO2Phase transformation, and lead to a large amount of accumulation of Joule heat in vanadium dioxide material, Since heat dissipation process is slow, which has limited it to regulate and control speed usually less than 1Hz.These factors, limiting vanadium dioxide and being used as has The practical application of the Terahertz modulator of effect.
Therefore, development is a kind of can be mutually compatible with semiconductor technology and existing high integration electronic system, and has The THz wave regulation and control device of relatively low Insertion Loss, big regulation and control depth and high switching rate is very necessary, for promotion The development of the real application systems such as existing terahertz imaging system has important value.
Invention content
The purpose of the present invention is to provide automatically controlled THz wave regulation and control devices of a kind of silicon substrate all dielectric type and preparation method thereof.
For achieving the above object, technical solution of the present invention is as follows:
A kind of automatically controlled THz wave regulation and control device of silicon substrate all dielectric type, including double-deck cylindrical silicon micrometer structure, High Resistivity Si Substrate, doped silicon interdigital electrode, silica nanometer oxide layer and vanadium dioxide film, wherein double-deck cylindrical silicon micron knot Structure is located at the upside of HR-Si substrate, and doped silicon interdigital electrode, silica nanometer oxide layer, vanadium dioxide film are from top to bottom It is sequentially located at the downside of HR-Si substrate, entire device not metal-containing material and metal structure;Bilayer on the upside of HR-Si substrate Cylindrical silicon micrometer structure layer plays the role of that THz wave is anti-reflection, and the vanadium dioxide film structure sheaf on the downside of HR-Si substrate then rises To THz wave amplitude regulating and controlling effect.
It is preferred that double-deck cylindrical silicon micrometer structure, doped silicon interdigital electrode, silica in entire device Nano-oxide layer be by same HR-Si substrate by etching, adulterating, aoxidizing, the processing of the standard semi-conductor processes of photoetching and Into.
It is preferred that the bilayer cylindrical silicon micrometer structure is the silicon substrate bilayer equidistantly arranged by multiple rows of multiple row Cylinder periodic array, lower floor's cylinder that double-deck cylinder includes the cylinder on upper strata, cylinder lower section in upper strata is arranged concentrically, upper strata cylinder Diameter is less than the diameter of lower floor's cylinder, the diameter of two layers of cylinder≤100 microns, total height≤100 micron of two layers of cylinder.
It is preferred that the double-deck cylindrical micrometer structure of silicon substrate is direct from HR-Si substrate by semiconductor technology It is process, the two belongs to same high resistant silicon materials.
It is preferred that the HR-Si substrate is intrinsic or high-resistance semi-conductor Si materials, resistivity >=3000 Ω .cm, thickness is between 200 μm~600 μm.
It is preferred that the doped silicon interdigital electrode to be formed by being adulterated to HR-Si substrate progress constituency, Its conductive capability power is adjusted by controlling doping concentration, and the width of doped silicon interdigital electrode is between 3 μm -10 μm, thickness Between 50nm to 3 μm.
It is preferred that the silica nanometer oxide layer is by HR-Si substrate and the interdigital electricity of doped silicon Pole aoxidize, and thickness is between 50nm to 100nm.
It is preferred that the vanadium dioxide film thickness is 100nm-500nm, rear change in resistance reaches before phase change It is more than 3 orders of magnitude, and the sheet resistance in metal phase≤50 Ω/mouth.
It is preferred that device Insertion Loss≤1.5dB in the range of the ultra wide band Terahertz frequency range more than 450GHz, device Part regulation and control depth reaches more than 76.5%, and regulation and control speed is more than 100Hz.
For achieving the above object, the present invention also provides a kind of automatically controlled THz wave regulation and control of above-mentioned silicon substrate all dielectric type The preparation method of device, including following steps:
Step 1, using electromagnetic simulation software CST Microwave Studio, establish silicon substrate bilayer cylindrical shaped microstructures list First 3D models, model overall thickness is 500 μm, after setting boundary condition and solver, optimizes half of double-deck cylinder in micro-structure The distance between diameter r1, r2, cylinder pillar height d1, d2, each bilayer cylinder p, to obtain maximum transmissivity and bandwidth of operation;
Step 2, cleaning semiconductor silicon substrate:Silicon chip is put into first in the beaker for fill acetone and is cleaned by ultrasonic 15min, Then it reuses alcohol and is cleaned by ultrasonic 15min, be finally cleaned by ultrasonic 15min using deionized water, silicon chip after cleaning nitrogen again Air-blowing is done, dry in baking oven;
Silicon chip after being designed according to designed microstructure size and processing mask plate, is put into thermal oxide by step 3 first Stove grows the silicon dioxide mask layer of 3 μ m-thicks using dry-oxygen oxidation method, is then etched using semiconductor lithography process and ICP Technology processes silicon substrate, first makes bottom large scale cylinder, then make top layer's small size cylinder, forms Double-ladder type cylinder Micro-structure;
Step 4 prepares doped silicon interdigital electrode:The SiO grown in upper step is selected first2Layer does the resistance of thermal diffusion doping Secondly barrier is emulated so that interdigital electrode is to the saturating of THz wave using electromagnetic simulation software CST Microwave Studio No influence is penetrated, interdigital electrode line and lines gap are all 7um after being optimized, and make fork over the barrier layer using photoetching technique Refer to the figure of electrode, then dry etching barrier layer forms the doping groove of interdigital electrode;P is reused as thermal diffusion source;Pre- Whole process is passed through under 1L/min nitrogen streams during diffusion experiment, and in-furnace temperature is increased to 850 DEG C, and send at this temperature with 50min Enter substrate;15min rises to 1000 DEG C, keeps 40min at 1000 DEG C, 850 DEG C are then cooled in 30min, take out substrate, most Afterwards remaining silicon dioxide blocking layer is got rid of using BOE water bath Methods;
Step 5 prepares silicon dioxide insulating layer:By the way of dry-oxygen oxidation, compactness is more preferable;In 1L/min nitrogen streams Temperature in stove will be risen to 850 DEG C by the lower time with 50min, and be sent into substrate at this temperature;Continue to heat up, change logical oxygen at this time Gas rises to 1000 DEG C after flow 1L/min, 15min, keeps 30min;Then start to cool down, drop in-furnace temperature in 30min To 850 DEG C, substrate is taken out, the silicon dioxide thickness prepared after tested is 50nm;This step is also simultaneously prediffusion in upper step Spreading again afterwards, the doped silicon interdigital electrode performance being prepared is more preferable, measures electrode sheet resistance as 4 Ω/mouth;
Step 6 prepares vanadium dioxide film:Using radio frequency magnetron sputtering method, splashed by high purity vanadium metal target in magnetic control Penetrate systematic parameter:Radio-frequency power 180w-220w, operating air pressure 1Pa, oxygen argon flow-rate ratio 4%-6%, 550 DEG C of heating temperature item Under part, the vanadium dioxide film of 200nm is deposited on silicon dioxide insulating layer;
Step 7 tests the Terahertz transmission performance of device using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy system THz-TDS, too Hertz wave is provided by the incidence of double-deck cylindrical shaped microstructures side, device institute making alive by constant pressure source, and positive and negative anodes are connected to interdigital electricity The both ends of pole after being added to required voltage, record THz-TDS system datas at once.
Silicon substrate bilayer cylindrical shaped microstructures are used to improve the regulation and control of silicon substrate vanadium dioxide type Terahertz modulator in the device Depth and overcome the problems, such as that original modulator substrate is larger to the insertion loss of THz wave.The core of the present invention is using half Conductor high resistant silicon materials do substrate, and silicon substrate is handled using semiconductor lithography and ICP etching techniques, is formed to Terahertz Wave acts the surface micrometer structure for increasing transmission, THz wave transmission amplitude can be substantially improved, in certain band limits Its transmissivity reaches more than 85%;Meanwhile doped silicon interdigital electrode is made in substrate another side, insulated by oxide is then prepared again Layer and vanadium dioxide core regulate and control nanometer layer.The all dielectric device is mutually compatible with existing microelectronics system to solve the problems, such as, May also suppress device leads to the problem of Joule heat simultaneously.The Terahertz modulator that the present invention realizes has insertion loss low, works With roomy, regulation and control depth is big, it is insensitive to incident THz wave direction polarization the advantages that, can be widely used in terahertz imaging and In the systems such as detection.
From operation principle:
Bilateral type device proposed by the present invention, two functional layers are distributed in HR-Si substrate both sides, and Terahertz is played in side The antireflective effect of wave, other side then play the role of THz wave transmission regulation and control, this novel structure can reduce device simultaneously Part Insertion Loss and realization significantly quick regulation and control.In structure of the present invention, substrate material select high resistant silicon materials be because obtain it is easy, Semiconductor technology feature at low cost and ripe.Silicon face is etched into specific three dimensional stereochemical structure, according to equivalent refractive index mould Type causes the refraction index changing on silicon substrate surface layer, and the anti-reflection component of graded index structure composition is formed between air and silicon substrate, And then increase the transmission amplitude of THz wave;Simultaneously the present invention regulation and control device use doped silicon interdigital electrode on-load voltage be for Compatible microelectronics system technique, and THz wave caused by reducing conventional metal electrode is lost;Select compactness good simultaneously Good insulating layer inhibits the generation of Joule heat;Electric field controls vanadium dioxide film is generated after the device electrode on-load voltage from insulation Phase change absorbs incident THz wave, so as to have the function that regulate and control THz wave to metal phase.
In conclusion advantages of the present invention and effect have:
Regulate and control the design theory of device the present invention provides a kind of automatically controlled THz wave of silicon substrate all dielectric type and prepare scheme, It is according to the anti-reflection theory of equivalent refractive index gradual change.Semiconductor high resistant silicon materials are chosen in the present invention as substrate, obtain it is easy, into This low and semiconducter process technology maturation;And the technology for preparing vanadium dioxide film is also more ripe.Secondly this device The transmissivity to THz wave is substantially increased, reduces Insertion Loss and with big bandwidth of operation;And in vanadium dioxide film and Oxide insulating layer is introduced between doped silicon interdigital electrode can effectively inhibit Joule heat caused by electric current, and then improve device tune Rate controlling rate has reached purpose of the present invention, can be widely applied to THz wave communication system, THz wave detection, Terahertz The fields such as wave imaging.
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Fig. 1 is the schematic three dimensional views of the automatically controlled THz wave regulation and control device architecture of silicon substrate all dielectric type of the present invention.
Fig. 2 (a) is the simulation result figure of the double-deck cylindrical microstructure model of silicon substrate of the present invention and naked silicon chip model.
Fig. 2 (b) is the experimental results figure of the double-deck cylindrical microstructure sample of silicon substrate of the present invention and naked silicon chip.
Fig. 3 (a) is the vanadium dioxide film test R-T used in the present invention directly prepared on silicon dioxide insulating layer Hysteresis cycle
Fig. 3 (b) is that the vanadium dioxide film used in the present invention directly prepared on silicon dioxide insulating layer is tested XRD spectrum.
Fig. 4 is the actual test Time Domain Spectrum of the automatically controlled THz wave regulation and control device of silicon substrate all dielectric type of the present invention.
Fig. 5 is the actual test THz wave transmission of the automatically controlled THz wave regulation and control device of silicon substrate all dielectric type of the present invention Rate fitted figure.
Fig. 6 is that the actual test THz wave of the automatically controlled THz wave regulation and control device of silicon substrate all dielectric type of the present invention is maximum Regulate and control depth fitted figure.
Wherein, 1 is double-deck cylindrical silicon micrometer structure, and 2 be HR-Si substrate, and 3 be doped silicon interdigital electrode, and 4 be dioxy SiClx nano-oxide layer, 5 be vanadium dioxide film, and 6 be incident THz wave.
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Illustrate embodiments of the present invention below by way of specific specific example, those skilled in the art can be by this specification Disclosed content understands other advantages and effect of the present invention easily.The present invention can also pass through in addition different specific realities The mode of applying is embodied or practiced, the various details in this specification can also be based on different viewpoints with application, without departing from Various modifications or alterations are carried out under the spirit of the present invention.
A kind of automatically controlled THz wave regulation and control device of silicon substrate all dielectric type, including double-deck cylindrical silicon micrometer structure 1, High Resistivity Si Substrate 2, doped silicon interdigital electrode 3, silica nanometer oxide layer 4 and vanadium dioxide film 5, wherein double-deck cylindrical silicon is micro- Rice structure 1 is located at the upside of HR-Si substrate 2, doped silicon interdigital electrode 3, silica nanometer oxide layer 4, vanadium dioxide film 5 are sequentially located at the downside of HR-Si substrate 2 from top to bottom, entire device not metal-containing material and metal structure;HR-Si substrate 2 The double-deck cylindrical silicon micrometer structure layer of upside plays the role of that THz wave is anti-reflection, and the vanadium dioxide of 2 downside of HR-Si substrate is thin 5 structure sheaf of film then plays THz wave amplitude regulating and controlling effect.
Double-deck cylindrical silicon micrometer structure 1, doped silicon interdigital electrode 3 in entire device, silica nanometer oxide layer 4 Be by same HR-Si substrate 2 by etching, adulterating, aoxidizing, the standard semi-conductor processes of photoetching are process.
The bilayer cylindrical silicon micrometer structure 1 is the silicon substrate bilayer cylinder period battle array equidistantly arranged by multiple rows of multiple row Row, the lower floor's cylinder being arranged concentrically below the cylinder of double-deck cylinder including upper strata, upper strata cylinder, under the diameter of upper strata cylinder is less than The diameter of layer cylinder, the diameter of two layers of cylinder≤100 microns, total height≤100 micron of two layers of cylinder.
The double-deck cylindrical micrometer structure 1 of silicon substrate is directly process from HR-Si substrate 2 by semiconductor technology, two Person belongs to same high resistant silicon materials.
The HR-Si substrate 2 is intrinsic or high-resistance semi-conductor Si materials, the Ω .cm of resistivity >=3000, and thickness exists Between 200 μm~600 μm.
The doped silicon interdigital electrode 3 to be formed by being adulterated to the progress of HR-Si substrate 2 constituency, and conductive capability is strong Weak to be adjusted by controlling doping concentration, the width of doped silicon interdigital electrode 3 is between 3 μm -10 μm, and thickness is at 50nm to 3 μm Between..
The silica nanometer oxide layer 4 is by being aoxidized to HR-Si substrate 2 and doped silicon interdigital electrode 3 It forms, thickness is between 50nm to 100nm.
5 thickness of vanadium dioxide film be 100nm-500nm, before phase change after change in resistance reach 3 orders of magnitude with On, and the sheet resistance in metal phase≤50 Ω/mouth.
Device Insertion Loss≤1.5dB in the range of the ultra wide band Terahertz frequency range more than 450GHz, device regulation and control depth reach To more than 76.5%, regulation and control speed is more than 100Hz.
The preparation method of the automatically controlled THz wave regulation and control device of above-mentioned silicon substrate all dielectric type, including following steps:
Step 1, using electromagnetic simulation software CST Microwave Studio, establish silicon substrate bilayer cylindrical shaped microstructures list First 3D models, model overall thickness is 500 μm, after setting boundary condition and solver, optimizes half of double-deck cylinder in micro-structure The distance between diameter r1, r2, cylinder pillar height d1, d2, each bilayer cylinder p, to obtain maximum transmissivity and bandwidth of operation;
Step 2, cleaning semiconductor silicon substrate:Silicon chip is put into first in the beaker for fill acetone and is cleaned by ultrasonic 15min, Then it reuses alcohol and is cleaned by ultrasonic 15min, be finally cleaned by ultrasonic 15min using deionized water, silicon chip after cleaning nitrogen again Air-blowing is done, dry in baking oven;
Silicon chip after being designed according to designed microstructure size and processing mask plate, is put into thermal oxide by step 3 first Stove grows the silicon dioxide mask layer of 3 μ m-thicks using dry-oxygen oxidation method, is then etched using semiconductor lithography process and ICP Technology processes silicon substrate, first makes bottom large scale cylinder, then make top layer's small size cylinder, forms Double-ladder type cylinder Micro-structure;
Step 4 prepares doped silicon interdigital electrode:The SiO grown in upper step is selected first2Layer does the resistance of thermal diffusion doping Secondly barrier is emulated so that interdigital electrode is to the saturating of THz wave using electromagnetic simulation software CST Microwave Studio No influence is penetrated, interdigital electrode line and lines gap are all 7um after being optimized, and make fork over the barrier layer using photoetching technique Refer to the figure of electrode, then dry etching barrier layer forms the doping groove of interdigital electrode;P is reused as thermal diffusion source;Pre- Whole process is passed through under 1L/min nitrogen streams during diffusion experiment, and in-furnace temperature is increased to 850 DEG C, and send at this temperature with 50min Enter substrate;15min rises to 1000 DEG C, keeps 40min at 1000 DEG C, 850 DEG C are then cooled in 30min, take out substrate, most Afterwards remaining silicon dioxide blocking layer is got rid of using BOE water bath Methods;
Step 5 prepares silicon dioxide insulating layer:By the way of dry-oxygen oxidation, compactness is more preferable;In 1L/min nitrogen streams Temperature in stove will be risen to 850 DEG C by the lower time with 50min, and be sent into substrate at this temperature;Continue to heat up, change logical oxygen at this time Gas rises to 1000 DEG C after flow 1L/min, 15min, keeps 30min;Then start to cool down, drop in-furnace temperature in 30min To 850 DEG C, substrate is taken out, the silicon dioxide thickness prepared after tested is 50nm;This step is also simultaneously prediffusion in upper step Spreading again afterwards, the doped silicon interdigital electrode performance being prepared is more preferable, measures electrode sheet resistance as 4 Ω/mouth;
Step 6 prepares vanadium dioxide film:Using radio frequency magnetron sputtering method, splashed by high purity vanadium metal target in magnetic control Penetrate systematic parameter:Radio-frequency power 180w-220w, operating air pressure 1Pa, oxygen argon flow-rate ratio 4%-6%, 550 DEG C of heating temperature item Under part, the vanadium dioxide film of 200nm is deposited on silicon dioxide insulating layer;
Step 7 tests the Terahertz transmission performance of device using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy system THz-TDS, too Hertz wave is provided by the incidence of double-deck cylindrical shaped microstructures side, device institute making alive by constant pressure source, and positive and negative anodes are connected to interdigital electricity The both ends of pole after being added to required voltage, record THz-TDS system datas at once.
Dependence test result is as follows:
Fig. 2 (b) is that the double-deck cylindrical micrometer structure actual test of the silicon substrate designed by the specific embodiment of the present invention is saturating Penetrate rate result figure, it can be seen that the structure transmissivity reaches more than 85% in certain frequency band, compared to the naked silicon chip of same parameter high resistant More than 15% is increased, can be seen that with Fig. 2 (a) emulation data comparisons and reached expected design.
Fig. 3 is the sheet resistance change curve that the vanadium dioxide film prepared by the specific embodiment of the present invention varies with temperature And XRD, show that the film is nearby undergone phase transition at 70 DEG C, sheet resistance changes more than 3 orders of magnitude;XRD spectrum shows film Single-crystal orientation is good.
To the THz-TDS time domains collection of illustrative plates 4 that modulator finished product test of the present invention goes out, then carry out data processing and obtain Fig. 5 Device transmission fitting figure and Fig. 6 devices maximum regulation and control depth fitted figure.From the final finished actual test result point of the present invention Analysis, it can be seen that in the case where being not loaded with voltage, vanadium dioxide film, SiO2Insulating layer and the doped silicon interdigital electrode made To THz wave without insertion loss;With the increase of on-load voltage, the transmissivity of THz wave constantly reduces, when voltage is added to 3.5V, for vanadium dioxide film after insulation mutually mutually becomes metal phase completely, device drops to 20% to the transmissivity of THz wave Left and right, can reach more than 76.5% by the regulation and control depth that entire device is calculated, shows Terahertz provided by the present invention Modulator has low insertion loss and very high regulation and control depth.
The above-described embodiments merely illustrate the principles and effects of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention.It is any ripe The personage for knowing this technology all can carry out modifications and changes under the spirit and scope without prejudice to the present invention to above-described embodiment.Cause This, all those of ordinary skill in the art without departing from disclosed spirit with being completed under technological thought All equivalent modifications or change, should by the present invention claim be covered.

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1. a kind of automatically controlled THz wave regulation and control device of silicon substrate all dielectric type, it is characterised in that:Including double-deck cylindrical silicon micron knot Structure (1), HR-Si substrate (2), doped silicon interdigital electrode (3), silica nanometer oxide layer (4) and vanadium dioxide film (5), wherein double-deck cylindrical silicon micrometer structure (1) is positioned at the upside of HR-Si substrate (2), doped silicon interdigital electrode (3), dioxy SiClx nano-oxide layer (4), vanadium dioxide film (5) are sequentially located at the downside of HR-Si substrate (2), entire device from top to bottom Not metal-containing material and metal structure;Double-deck cylindrical silicon micrometer structure layer on the upside of HR-Si substrate (2) plays THz wave Anti-reflection effect, vanadium dioxide film (5) structure sheaf on the downside of HR-Si substrate (2) then play THz wave amplitude regulating and controlling effect.
2. a kind of automatically controlled THz wave regulation and control device of silicon substrate all dielectric type according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:Entirely Double-deck cylindrical silicon micrometer structure (1) in device, doped silicon interdigital electrode (3), silica nanometer oxide layer (4) be by Same HR-Si substrate (2) is by etching, adulterating, aoxidizing, the standard semi-conductor processes of photoetching are process.
3. a kind of automatically controlled THz wave regulation and control device of silicon substrate all dielectric type according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:It is described Double-deck cylindrical silicon micrometer structure (1) is the silicon substrate bilayer cylinder periodic array equidistantly arranged by multiple rows of multiple row, double-deck cylinder Cylinder including upper strata, the lower floor's cylinder being arranged concentrically below the cylinder of upper strata, the diameter of upper strata cylinder are less than the straight of lower floor's cylinder Diameter, the diameter of two layers of cylinder≤100 microns, total height≤100 micron of two layers of cylinder.
4. a kind of automatically controlled THz wave regulation and control device of silicon substrate all dielectric type according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:Silicon substrate Double-deck cylinder micrometer structure (1) is directly process from HR-Si substrate (2) by semiconductor technology, and the two belongs to same A kind of high resistant silicon materials.
5. a kind of automatically controlled THz wave regulation and control device of silicon substrate all dielectric type according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:It is described HR-Si substrate (2) is intrinsic or high-resistance semi-conductor Si materials, and the Ω .cm of resistivity >=3000, thickness is in 200 μm~600 μ Between m.
6. a kind of automatically controlled THz wave regulation and control device of silicon substrate all dielectric type according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:It is described Doped silicon interdigital electrode (3) to be formed by being adulterated to HR-Si substrate (2) progress constituency, and conductive capability power passes through control Doping concentration processed is adjusted, and the width of doped silicon interdigital electrode (3) is between 3 μm -10 μm, thickness is between 50nm to 3 μm.
7. a kind of automatically controlled THz wave regulation and control device of silicon substrate all dielectric type according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:It is described Silica nanometer oxide layer (4) be by HR-Si substrate (2) and doped silicon interdigital electrode (3) aoxidize, Its thickness is between 50nm to 100nm.
8. a kind of automatically controlled THz wave regulation and control device of silicon substrate all dielectric type according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:It is described Vanadium dioxide film (5) thickness is 100nm-500nm, and rear change in resistance reaches more than 3 orders of magnitude, and in gold before phase change Sheet resistance≤50 Ω/mouth during symbolic animal of the birth year.
9. a kind of automatically controlled THz wave regulation and control device of silicon substrate all dielectric type according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:Super Device Insertion Loss≤1.5dB in the range of the ultra wide band Terahertz frequency range of 450GHz is crossed, device regulation and control depth reaches more than 76.5%, Regulate and control speed and be more than 100Hz.
10. the preparation method of the automatically controlled THz wave regulation and control device of silicon substrate all dielectric type described in claim 1 to 9 any one, It is characterized by comprising following steps:
Step 1, using electromagnetic simulation software CST Microwave Studio, establish the double-deck cylindrical microstructure unit 3D of silicon substrate Model, model overall thickness is 500 μm, after setting boundary condition and solver, optimizes the radius r1 of double-deck cylinder in micro-structure, The distance between r2, cylinder pillar height d1, d2, each bilayer cylinder p, to obtain maximum transmissivity and bandwidth of operation;
Step 2, cleaning semiconductor silicon substrate:Silicon chip is put into first in the beaker for fill acetone and is cleaned by ultrasonic 15min, then It reuses alcohol and is cleaned by ultrasonic 15min, be finally cleaned by ultrasonic 15min using deionized water, nitrogen is blown the silicon chip after cleaning again It is dry, it is dry in baking oven;
Silicon chip after being designed according to designed microstructure size and processing mask plate, is put into thermal oxidation furnace by step 3 first, The silicon dioxide mask layer of 3 μ m-thicks is grown using dry-oxygen oxidation method, then utilizes semiconductor lithography process and ICP etching techniques Silicon substrate is processed, first makes bottom large scale cylinder, then make top layer's small size cylinder, forms the micro- knot of Double-ladder type cylinder Structure;
Step 4 prepares doped silicon interdigital electrode:The SiO grown in upper step is selected first2Layer does the barrier layer of thermal diffusion doping, Secondly it is emulated using electromagnetic simulation software CST Microwave Studio so that interdigital electrode is to the transmission of THz wave without shadow It rings, interdigital electrode line and lines gap are all 7um after being optimized, and interdigital electrode is made over the barrier layer using photoetching technique Figure, then dry etching barrier layer formed interdigital electrode doping groove;P is reused as thermal diffusion source;In prediffusion reality Whole process is passed through under 1L/min nitrogen streams when testing, and in-furnace temperature is increased to 850 DEG C, and be sent into substrate at this temperature with 50min; 15min rises to 1000 DEG C, keeps 40min at 1000 DEG C, 850 DEG C are then cooled in 30min, take out substrate, finally use BOE water bath Methods get rid of remaining silicon dioxide blocking layer;
Step 5 prepares silicon dioxide insulating layer:By the way of dry-oxygen oxidation, compactness is more preferable;It is used under 1L/min nitrogen streams Temperature in stove is risen to 850 DEG C by the time of 50min, and is sent into substrate at this temperature;Continue to heat up, change logical oxygen at this time, Flow is 1L/min, and 1000 DEG C are risen to after 15min, keeps 30min;Then start to cool down, drop to in-furnace temperature in 30min 850 DEG C, substrate is taken out, the silicon dioxide thickness prepared after tested is 50nm;This step simultaneously also for prediffusion in upper step after Spread again, the doped silicon interdigital electrode performance being prepared is more preferable, measures electrode sheet resistance as 4 Ω/mouth;
Step 6 prepares vanadium dioxide film:Using radio frequency magnetron sputtering method, by high purity vanadium metal target in magnetron sputtering system System parameter:Under conditions of radio-frequency power 180w-220w, operating air pressure 1Pa, oxygen argon flow-rate ratio 4%-6%, 550 DEG C of heating temperature, The vanadium dioxide film of 200nm is deposited on silicon dioxide insulating layer;
Step 7 tests the Terahertz transmission performance of device using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy system THz-TDS, Terahertz Wave is provided by the incidence of double-deck cylindrical shaped microstructures side, device institute making alive by constant pressure source, and positive and negative anodes are connected to interdigital electrode Both ends after being added to required voltage, record THz-TDS system datas at once.
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