EP1601463A1 - Catalyseur structure notamment pour la realisation d'ecrans plats a emission de champ - Google Patents
Catalyseur structure notamment pour la realisation d'ecrans plats a emission de champInfo
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- the invention relates to a method for structuring a catalyst on a given support, said method making it possible to control the density of catalyst present on the support in the form of drops.
- the structure thus obtained is particularly useful for manufacturing flat screens with low cost field emission, said screens being made up of a layer of carbon nanotubes emitting electrons, the nanotubes being obtained by growth on the catalyst drops.
- the display devices generally used operate by cat odoluminescence excited by the emission of an electric field. These devices consist of a cathode, which is the electron-emitting structure, and an anode, opposite the cathode, which is covered with a luminescent layer, the anode and the cathode being separated by a space. in which we create a vacuum.
- the cathode is either a source of electrons based on microtips, or a source of electrons based on an emissive layer with a low threshold field, for example a layer of carbon nanotubes.
- a layer of carbon nanotubes the emission performance of these nanotubes depends on the arrangement of said tubes on the surface of the layer.
- the density of nanotubes is a very important parameter to control. Indeed, if the density of tubes is too high, all the tubes do not see the electric field applied to them, this because of a screen phenomenon. A layer is then obtained in which the density of tubes actually emitting electrons, or emissive sites, is low. Note that for all sites to emit electrons, the distance between the tubes must ideally be of the same order of magnitude as their length.
- the emission threshold field of the tubes that is to say the value of the field for which the current produced reaches a significant value, depends on the ratio between the length of the tube and its diameter.
- the height of the tubes is typically of the order of a few micrometers, taking into account the diameter of the tubes which is typically 10 nm.
- CVD Chemical Vapor Deposition
- This deposition uses a carbon deposition reaction on a catalyst (typically iron, cobalt, nickel or an alloy of these materials). It must be taken into account that, as the nanotubes will grow on the catalyst grains, it is the distribution and the diameter of said catalyst grains which will govern the diameter and the density of the carbon tubes obtained.
- the problem of controlling the geometric parameters of the nanotubes (diameter and spacing) therefore boils down to the problem of controlling the parameters of the catalyst grains.
- a method generally used to control the parameters of the catalyst grains is to use the phenomenon of natural fractionation which occurs on very thin layers of catalyst when they are brought to a sufficiently high temperature (FIGS.
- the process for structuring a catalyst by the fractionation method begins with the deposition, at room temperature, of a layer of catalyst 2 on a given support 1 (FIG. 1a). Then, the catalyst layer 2 is annealed at high temperature (for example at 600 ° C.) and the result presented in FIG. 1b is obtained: we see that the catalyst is now present on the support in the form of drops 3 4. The problem with this process, however, is that the density of the catalyst drops is not controlled. With this fractionation method, a drop distribution is obtained in which the average diameter is a function of the thickness of the continuous layer deposited, the drop density not being adjustable.
- the object of the invention is to allow the control of the physical parameters (diameter and density) of the catalysts deposited on a support without having to use a high resolution photolithography process.
- the invention thus makes it possible to control the parameters of the carbon nanotubes which will grow on these catalysts.
- the method according to the invention makes it possible in particular to produce, at low cost, supports for large surfaces containing nanotubes, said supports being necessary for producing flat screens.
- This object and others still are achieved, according to the invention, by a method of structuring a catalyst on a support. This process will make it possible to control the density of drops of catalyst found on said support.
- This process includes several steps. First, a layer of catalyst is deposited on a support. Note that the support chosen must be suitable for the implementation of the process.
- the deposition of the catalyst layer can advantageously take place at room temperature.
- the annealing is then carried out under vacuum or under a controlled atmosphere of the structure thus produced. This step makes it possible to obtain a fractionation of the catalyst layer in the form of drops.
- an attack on the fractionated catalyst layer is carried out in order to adjust the density of the catalyst drops. This gives drops of determined diameter and density.
- said method further comprises a preliminary step of depositing on the support a barrier layer to the interaction between the support and the catalyst.
- the deposition of the barrier layer can advantageously take place at ambient temperature.
- the barrier layer has the function here of preventing interactions between the catalyst and the support, and in particular contamination of the catalyst which could hinder etching.
- the attack on the fractionated catalyst layer can be a chemical attack on the catalyst by an attack solution for a determined period.
- the attack of the fractionated catalyst layer can also be done by dry etching, by plasma etching (RIE, ICP ...) or by selective ion bombardment.
- RIE plasma etching
- a mask is produced on the support, the mask exposing the support through openings.
- the mask may for example be made of resin, aluminum or any other material conventionally used in microelectronics as a sacrificial layer and compatible with the deposition of the catalyst.
- the catalyst layer is then deposited according to the protocol explained above. Then, the mask is removed and the structure is annealed.
- the step of chemical etching of the catalyst is then carried out. If it is decided to deposit a barrier layer between the substrate and the catalyst layer, the mask can be produced on the support before depositing the barrier layer. Then, the mask will be removed after having deposited the layer of catalyst on the structure and the annealing of said structure will be carried out.
- the sub-layer may be deposited uniformly over the entire support, the deposition of the catalyst being effected by means of a mask in a localized manner on certain locations of the support.
- a solution will advantageously be chosen which does not prevent the catalyst from reacting with the elements which it will subsequently have to catalyze. Indeed, certain solutions tend to poison the catalyst and make the drops of catalyst ineffective for the growth of nanotubes.
- the thickness of the catalyst layer will be chosen so that after etching, the average diameter of the drops corresponds to the diameter of the nanotubes that it is desired to grow (typically between 10 nm and 50 nm).
- the etching time will be chosen so as to obtain an optimal density of the drops for the intended application, knowing the initial homogeneous distribution of the drops obtained after fractionation. This exploits the fact that the fractionation leads to a statistical dispersion of the diameters, the largest diameters being the rarest and the drops having these diameters being relatively distant from each other.
- Another object of the invention consists in the production of carbon nanotubes on a support.
- a support having drops of catalyst structured according to the method described above, and carbon nanotubes are grown on said drops.
- the invention consists of a method of growing carbon nanotubes on drops of catalyst present on the structure obtained according to the method of structuring a support, said method consisting in depositing carbon on the drops of catalyst already present, for example by chemical vapor deposition of carbon.
- the deposition of the barrier layer is a deposition of TiN or TaN.
- the deposition of the catalyst layer is a deposition of an element chosen from the group comprising Fe, Co, Ni, Pt, Au or any alloy of these materials.
- the invention also relates to a device comprising a cathode and an anode covered with a luminescent layer, the anode being arranged facing the cathode, and the anode and the cathode being separated by a space in which a vacuum is created.
- This device is distinguished from the devices of the prior art in that the cathode comprises a layer of carbon nanotubes produced using the method for growing nanotubes according to the invention.
- FIGS. 1a and 1b show the different stages of a typical process for structuring a catalyst by fractionation of a thin layer at high temperature
- FIG. 2 is a graph showing the statistical distribution of the catalyst drop diameters as a function of the thickness of the catalyst layer
- - Figures 3a to 3d illustrate the different stages of the process for structuring a catalyst according to 1 ' invention.
- the support used can be made of silicon. It can more generally be made of a semiconductor material, steel, or be composed of any stack of these materials or other materials, the barrier layer allowing the need to isolate, in particular chemically, the support of the catalyst. . This barrier layer is not necessary if the support intrinsically has the required barrier quality, such as this is the case for example for a glass or silica support.
- a support for example a glass support covered with a silicon layer
- the barrier layer 13 or sublayer which will isolate the catalyst 12 from the support 11 from a chemical point of view. particular (see Figure 3a).
- the deposition takes place at room temperature by magnetron sputtering and the deposited sub-layer is a layer of TiN or TaN with a thickness of between 30 nm and 80 nm.
- a layer 12 of nickel 10 nm thick at room temperature and by evaporation with an electron gun is deposited on the sub-layer 13 (FIG. 3b).
- the etching solution used previously can be replaced by a hydrochloric acid solution diluted to 5%. Similar results are then obtained in terms of dispersion and size of the drops.
- the efficiency of the catalyst for the growth of carbon nanotubes is greatly reduced after this chemical treatment: it would seem that the hydrochloric acid solution diluted to 5% poisons the catalyst and reduces its capacity to grow carbon nanotubes. This solution could nevertheless be useful for other applications or other types of materials, or even if a control of the efficiency of the catalyst was desired.
- a resin mask or “lift-off” mask is used in English.
- This resin “lift-off” mask is produced on the support 11 before starting the deposition of the sublayer 13 and of the catalyst 12.
- a layer 13 is deposited on the support 11 and at ambient temperature, which will serve sublayer, TiN or TaN with a thickness between 30nm to 80nm by magnetron sputtering.
- the structuring of the barrier layer allows confinement of the catalyst (towards the support but also in the plane of the deposit).
- deposited on the sublayer 13 a Ni catalyst layer of lOnm thick at room temperature and by evaporation by electron gun.
- the resin mask is then removed and the structure is annealed under vacuum at 600 ° C for 1 hour.
- the fractional catalyst layer is etched using a solution composed of one volume of nitric acid, one volume of acetic acid and four volumes of water. This attack is carried out for a duration of 45 seconds.
- the same structure is used as above (TiN layer of 30 nm and Ni layer of 10 nm) which is obtained after the drop annealing under vacuum or under a controlled atmosphere, and an etching is carried out with the mixture described above (acid nitric acid, acetic acid and water) of the fractionated catalyst layer for a period of 30 seconds.
- We then carry out the annealing activation of the catalyst identical to the previous example
- the carbon nanotubes are grown on the catalyst drops by CVD with the mixture (CO and H 2 ) used previously.
- layer 1 we obtain a density of emissive sites of 9.8.10 6 per m 2 and an emission threshold of 4 V / ⁇ m.
- layer 2 where the density of emissive sites increases to 5.5.10 7 per m 2 and the emission threshold at 3.4 V / ⁇ m .
- the etching step makes it possible to eliminate a certain number of drops of catalyst.
- the density of drops being less, there is a greater number of nanotubes which perceives the electric field sent in the device and consequently, the density of emissive sites increases.
- By playing on the etching time one can find an optimum point of adjustment for the application, for example the point having the highest density of emissive sites.
- the process for growing nanotubes and in particular the process for structuring the catalyst according to the invention makes it possible to adjust and in particular to increase the density of emissive sites and therefore to increase the current emitted by the layer of nanotubes with a factor potentially greater than 10 (45 in the best case).
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