EP4684215A1 - Pointe en silicium de faible masse et à haut rapport d'aspect, sonde comportant une telle pointe en silicium, microscope comportant une telle sonde, et procédé de fabrication de ladite pointe en silicium - Google Patents
Pointe en silicium de faible masse et à haut rapport d'aspect, sonde comportant une telle pointe en silicium, microscope comportant une telle sonde, et procédé de fabrication de ladite pointe en siliciumInfo
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- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01Q—SCANNING-PROBE TECHNIQUES OR APPARATUS; APPLICATIONS OF SCANNING-PROBE TECHNIQUES, e.g. SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY [SPM]
- G01Q70/00—General aspects of SPM probes, their manufacture or their related instrumentation, insofar as they are not specially adapted to a single SPM technique covered by group G01Q60/00
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- B81C1/00—Manufacture or treatment of devices or systems in or on a substrate
- B81C1/00015—Manufacture or treatment of devices or systems in or on a substrate for manufacturing microsystems
- B81C1/00023—Manufacture or treatment of devices or systems in or on a substrate for manufacturing microsystems without movable or flexible elements
- B81C1/00111—Tips, pillars, i.e. raised structures
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- G—PHYSICS
- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01Q—SCANNING-PROBE TECHNIQUES OR APPARATUS; APPLICATIONS OF SCANNING-PROBE TECHNIQUES, e.g. SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY [SPM]
- G01Q70/00—General aspects of SPM probes, their manufacture or their related instrumentation, insofar as they are not specially adapted to a single SPM technique covered by group G01Q60/00
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- the present invention relates to sensors at the base of atomic force microscopes, and more particularly to sensors comprising tips.
- An atomic force microscope is a type of local probe microscope that overcomes the resolution limitations known for light wave-based microscopes. Indeed, it allows the topography of the surface of a sample to be visualized with a lateral resolution of sub-100 nanometers and a vertical resolution of sub-1 nanometer. These values cannot be achieved in optics due to the limits related to wave diffraction.
- the AFM technique exploits the interaction (attraction/repulsion) between the atoms of the nanometric apex of a tip and the atoms of the surface of a sample.
- the atomic force microscope is a device that allows this principle to be put into practice by scanning the surface of a sample using a very fine tip, positioned at the free end of a flexible micro-lever, which can move in all directions in space. This is achieved by means of piezoelectric ceramics that define an X,Y scan. This is then called an ‘XY scan’.
- the principle of the most commonly used device is to measure in real time the deflection angle of the lever, which is considered to be a measure of the interaction forces occurring between the tip and the sample.
- This angle is most often measured by the technique known as optical deflection of a laser beam.
- a laser leaves a source, is reflected on the lever, and reaches a 4-quadrant photodiode.
- the intensities of the quadrants will vary and it will be possible to generate an electrical output proportional to the deflection angle of the lever.
- the deflection signal serves as input to a lever height control loop.
- Imaging modes based on AFM also make it possible to measure physical properties with a resolution of a few nanometers (optical index, permittivity, electric charges, etc.).
- a first method is based on a technology for manufacturing the tip out of plane of the substrate. Such a method is notably described in a first document: “Microfabrication and application of high-aspect-ratio silicon tips, July 2005, Journal of Vaccum Science & Technology B Microlectronics and Nanometer Structures 23(4), by Yaqiang Wang and Daniel W. van der Weide, doi: 10.1116/1.1947805”.
- a second method is based on a technology for manufacturing the tip in the plane of the substrate. Such a method is notably described in a second document: "R. P. Ried, H. J. Mamin, B. D. Terris, Long-Sheng Fan and D. Rugar, "6-MHz 2-N/m piezoresistive atomic-force microscope cantilevers with INCISIVE tips," in Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 294-302, Dec. 1997, doi: 10.1109/84.650125".
- This second method is illustrated in particular in Fig. 1 from extracts of a figure from the second document.
- a preform is etched vertically through the entire upper silicon layer of an SOI substrate (for "Silicon On Insulator” in English) until reaching an oxide layer of this substrate.
- the preform is then encapsulated in an oxide sheath by thermal oxidation and/or oxide deposition.
- An opening in a protective mask is then made above said preform.
- Vertical etching removes the oxide only on the surface of the preform, which leaves an oxide wall around the preform.
- Anisotropic chemical etching allows preferential etching of silicon planes by revealing said planes after etching.
- the probe obtained by the second method is illustrated in Fig. 2.
- This probe consists of three parts, namely, a tip (P), a connecting element which is here a lever (C) also called “Cantilever” and a support (S).
- connecting element or “lever” means a free embedded element.
- the lever is configured to deform preferentially in the direction of the tip. The lever also deforms in other directions.
- the lever has three main dimensions:
- the length of a tip is defined between one end of the tip, also called the apex (AP) and the face of the lever carrying the tip.
- the axis of the lever is mainly along the X axis.
- the axis increases from the anchor of the lever towards the free part.
- the axis of the tip is mainly along Y.
- the axis is increasing from the base of the tip, at the lever towards the tip.
- the Z axis is perpendicular to the X axis and the Y axis.
- the user might wish to use the probe in an ideal case, in which the tip is vertical above the sample.
- the probe is mounted in the microscope with a cp angle of a few degrees: of the order of 7 to 13°.
- the present invention aims to at least partially remedy this need.
- the present invention relates to a silicon tip capable of being arranged at one end of a lever.
- the tip comprises a first part and a second part arranged between said first part and the lever, said first part having a tetrahedral shape having a triangular section whose height is continuously variable.
- the second part has a non-triangular section and at the interface between the first part and the second part of the tip.
- the height of the triangular section of the first part is less than a width of the lever.
- the height of the triangular section of the first part corresponds to a dimension in a direction parallel to a direction of the width of the lever.
- the second part comprises a first portion extending from the lever and a second portion disposed between the first portion and the first part.
- the first portion comprises an inclined plane, said inclined plane extending between the lever and the second portion.
- Another object of the invention relates to a probe comprising a support comprising a lever extending from the support, a silicon tip according to the preceding object, said silicon tip being arranged at one end of the lever, opposite the support.
- the lever comprises a main portion connected to the support and a width-reducing portion extending the main portion.
- the reduction portion comprises a first inclined plane extending from the main portion and a second inclined plane. extending from the first inclined plane to the probe, the inclination of the first inclined plane being different from the inclination of the second inclined plane.
- the second inclined plane has the same inclination as the inclined plane of the first portion of the second part of the tip.
- the first part of the tip comprises an inclined plane, said inclined plane having the same inclination as the first inclined plane of the reduction portion.
- Another object of the invention relates to a local probe microscope comprising a probe according to the preceding object.
- Another subject of the invention relates to a method for manufacturing a silicon tip in an SOI substrate, said substrate comprising a lower silicon layer with a thickness of between 150 pm and 700 pm, an oxide layer SiO 2 resting on the lower layer, said oxide layer having a thickness of between 0.2 pm and 2 pm, an upper silicon layer with a thickness E and resting on the oxide layer, said manufacturing method comprising:
- etching a preform through the upper silicon layer to the oxide layer said preform having a first part, extending in a first direction, intended to form said tip and a second part, connected to said first part, extending in a second direction intended to form a lever for connecting the tip to a support;
- the first part of the preform has a first width W PF , said first width W PF being less than E/A/2 and/or in said manufacturing method the rectangular window of the mask opens onto the whole of the first part of said preform and partially opens onto the second part of said preform.
- the opening step comprises an additional step in which all or part of the first part of the preform is partially and locally etched.
- Figure 1 illustrates a method according to the prior art based on a technology for manufacturing a tip of a probe in the plane of a substrate
- Figure 2 illustrates a probe obtained by the method of Figure 1;
- Figure 3 illustrates a prior art SOI substrate suitable for use in the method of Figure 1;
- Figure 4 illustrates in more detail the method of Figure 1
- Figure 5 illustrates in more detail a tip of a probe of Figure 2;
- Figure 6 illustrates a probe having the tip of Figure 5;
- Figure 7 illustrates the laser spot size on two probe levers of different widths
- Figure 8 illustrates a measured profile as a function of a sample and the tip geometry
- Figure 9 illustrates a front and side view of the tip of Figure 5;
- Figure 10 is a table giving the aspect ratio of the front and side of the tip of Figure 9 as a function of an angle 6;
- Figure 11 is a zoom of step 1 of the method of Figure 4.
- Figure 12 is a zoom of step 3 of the method of Figure 4.
- Figure 13 is a zoom of step 4 of the method of Figure 4;
- Figure 14 is a zoom of step 3 of the method of Figure 4 with dimensions of the preform according to a first variant embodiment of the method according to the invention;
- Figure 15 is a zoom of step 4 of the method of Figure 4 with dimensions of the preform according to the first variant embodiment of the method according to the invention
- Figure 16 illustrates a probe according to a first variant embodiment obtained from the steps of the manufacturing method of Figures 14 and 15;
- Figure 17 illustrates a probe according to a second variant embodiment obtained from the steps of the manufacturing method of Figures 14 and 15;
- Figure 18 is a zoom of step 3 of the method of Figure 4 with a particular positioning of an opening window
- Figure 19 is a zoom of step 4 of the method of Figure 4 following step 3 of Figure 18;
- Figure 20 illustrates a probe according to a third variant embodiment obtained from the steps of the manufacturing method of Figures 18 and 19;
- Figure 21 illustrates the probe according to the third embodiment variant of Figure 20 according to another view
- Figure 22 illustrates a detailed view of a portion of the probe of Figure 21;
- Figure 23 illustrates a probe according to a fourth variant embodiment
- Figure 24 illustrates a portion of the probe of Figure 23
- Figure 25 illustrates a probe according to a fifth variant embodiment
- Figure 26 illustrates a probe according to a sixth variant embodiment
- Figure 27 illustrates a probe according to a seventh variant embodiment
- Figure 28 illustrates a front view of the embodiments of Figures 26 and
- Figure 29 illustrates a method for manufacturing probes according to the embodiments of Figures 25 to 27;
- Figure 30 is a photo obtained by scanning electron microscopy illustrating the third variant embodiment of Figures 20 and 21;
- Figure 31 is a photo obtained by scanning electron microscopy illustrating the third variant embodiment of Figures 20 and 21, according to another orientation.
- Figure 3 illustrates an SOI substrate suitable for use in a process based on substrate-plane probe tip fabrication technology.
- Such a substrate consists of three layers.
- a lower silicon layer of significant thickness (Handle Layer: HL) (150pm-700pm) which serves as a mechanical support, a thin SiO2 oxide layer (0.5pm-2pm) called BOX (buried oxide), then a silicon layer called the ‘active layer’ or ‘Device layer’: DL.
- HL silicon layer of significant thickness
- BOX buried oxide
- Figure 4 illustrates in more detail the process of manufacturing the probe tip in the plane of the SOI substrate of Figure 3.
- the process thus starts on the SOI substrate.
- the HL layer is not shown to make it easier to understand.
- the DL device layer is in white on the hatched BOX silicon oxide.
- a protective mask is defined in a step E1. This protects the material located inside the geometric shape. Then the silicon layer will be etched up to the BOX using plasma technology which removes the silicon outside the protective mask and produces vertical sides.
- a step E2 the surface and the sides of the structure etched in the silicon of the “device layer” are then encapsulated in the silicon oxide (by thermal oxidation and/or deposition).
- a step E3 an opening is made in the oxide in order to expose the upper surface of the silicon structure without removing the oxide on the sides.
- a specific etching using a base such as TMAH (Tetramethylammonium hydroxide) makes it possible to etch the silicon with a slope. This is obtained because the TMAH etches the (111) planes very little (colored here in light gray).
- a step E5 the oxide is finally etched everywhere around the probe.
- the tip of a probe obtained by the steps of the method of Figure 4 is illustrated in Figure 5 in three dimensions. This tip has a tetrahedral shape having a triangular section.
- the DCA, BCD and ACB planes intersect at point C and are respectively formed by the lower surface of the SOI device layer, by the (111) crystal plane exposed using chemical etching and by a vertical plane defined using vertical etching.
- the (111) plane is etched at least 10 times slower than the other planes. The etching can then be stopped when only the (111) planes remain visible.
- the tip thus formed at point C is in the plane of the substrate.
- the straight line (DC) follows the crystalline direction [110] while an angle 9 is imposed between (DC) and (AC). This angle is defined during the design while the values of a (BCD) and (3(BC ⁇ ) depend only on 9 and the crystalline planes of the silicon and are imposed by:
- the length of the tip i.e. the distance DC, depends only on the angle 9 and the thickness of the silicon layer E:
- Figure 6 illustrates in more detail a variant of a probe obtained by the method of Figure 4.
- This probe consists mainly of four zones.
- the PT zone is made up of a tetrahedron: the sections of this zone, in the XZ plane, are right triangles that become larger and larger as one travels through the PT zone along the y axis from the apex of the AP point towards the ZI zone.
- the ZI zone is an intermediate zone extending the tip but not forming part of the tetrahedron. Its sections in the XZ plane can be of arbitrary size with, for example, a rectangular shape.
- the PT zone and the ZI zone constitute the tip of the probe.
- the EM zone belongs to a lever C of the probe. This lever is connected to a support of the probe (not shown in figure 6).
- Figure 7 shows a top view of a probe when the AFM laser is focused to obtain a reflection giving the measurement signal.
- the lever is formed by vertically etching the “device layer” of the SOI substrate along the Z axis.
- the width Wc of the lever is equal to the thickness E of the “device layer” of the SOI. More precisely, and throughout this document, the width Wc of the lever corresponds to the dimension of the lever along the Z axis at the level of the anchoring of the lever (i.e. at the level of the anchored end).
- the thickness t of the lever is given by the photolithography.
- S D is the diameter of the laser spot LS sent to the lever.
- the proportion of reflected light is equivalent to the ratio between the illuminated lever surface and the laser spot surface.
- the illuminated surface is a rectangle of length SD and width Wc, i.e. S D * Wc.
- the tip length L P of probes made out of plane is typically 10 to 15 pm.
- the profile obtained during a scan line is always the convolution of the profile of the tip and the local flank of the sample.
- Figure 8 illustrates a typical profile obtained as a function of the sample.
- the measured profile SP presents several types of defects:
- the tip does not fit into a narrow and deep trench: the aspect ratio of the tip is low compared to that of the trench.
- Figure 9 illustrates a front and side view of the tip of Figure 5.
- the face or side aspect ratio of the PT area depends only on 6:
- Figure 10 details the measurement of the front and side aspect ratio as a function of angle 6.
- a PT zone of 179pm therefore has a mass of 2.5 times that of the lever. This mass will lower the resonance frequency by 40%.
- a second problem to be solved is to achieve a tip with a high aspect ratio and low mass, without reducing Wc.
- FIB focused ion beam
- a third problem is therefore to use a collective manufacturing technique (called “batch process” in English) on a substrate allowing a high aspect ratio to be obtained on all the probes during the manufacturing process.
- Figures 11, 12 and 13 illustrate in more detail certain steps of the prior art manufacturing method shown in Figure 4.
- Figure 11 is a zoom of step 1 of the method of Figure 4.
- the preform is here a silicon part whose sides are vertical. It is made up of two portions.
- the portion PF extends mainly along the Y axis, forming here a non-zero angle 0 with this axis.
- the Y axis corresponds to the crystalline direction [110].
- the portion C extends mainly along the X axis, forming here a non-zero angle T with this axis.
- the X axis thus corresponds to the normal to the crystalline direction [1 10].
- a second reference point is defined having as its origin OR, the inflection point between the two preform portions.
- the process starts on SOI substrate with an active layer DL of thickness E etched until reaching the oxide BOX.
- the top view shows the future lever C associated with the portion PF of width W PF and length L PF . Being produced by etching along Z, the width Wc of the lever is given by the thickness E of the layer DL while its thickness te is adjustable during design.
- the thickness E of the active layer DL is between 0.1 pm and 100 pm.
- the thickness E of the active layer DL is between 2 pm and 40 pm.
- Figure 12 is a zoom of step 3 of the method of Figure 4.
- a silicon oxide sheath encapsulates all the silicon of the DL layer.
- a resin mask is defined which will protect the entire surface except the FO window. By etching, this mask makes it possible to remove the upper layer resting on the top of the DL while retaining MO oxide walls.
- the oxide layer is not shown in the area outside the FO but it is present. It is possible to see this layer on the section AA'. It is denoted SO.
- OR is the origin of the reference frame used to measure the position of FO. OR corresponds to the point of intersection of the lever C and the preform PF.
- MO dx and MO dy measure the offset of the window at the origin OR along the reference frame X1 /Y1. In Figure 12 MO dx and MO dy are negative.
- Figure 13 is a zoom of step 4 of the method of Figure 4.
- the silicon oxide then serves as a mask for a chemical etching step (TMAH) which has the particularity of anisotropically etching the different crystalline planes of the silicon.
- TMAH chemical etching step
- Figure 14 is a zoom of step 3 of the method of Figure 4 with dimensions of the preform according to a first variant embodiment of the method according to the invention.
- the first part PF of the preform has a first width W PF and the second part C of the preform has a second width t.
- W PF width of the preform
- t width of the preform
- Figure 15 is a zoom of step 4 of the method of Figure 4 with dimensions of the preform according to the first variant embodiment of the method according to the invention.
- This method consists in using the MO oxide wall so as to block the etching on the (1 1 1 ) crystal plane as shown in section AA’ of Figure 15. A small tetrahedral portion is then obtained only at the end of the tip. The tetrahedron is truncated and the mass of the tip is reduced.
- the probe comprises a lever C and a tip.
- This tip comprises the first part PT and the second part ZI.
- This second part ZI is arranged between the first part PT and the lever C.
- the height of the triangular section is less than the width Wc of the lever C.
- Figure 17 illustrates a probe according to a second variant embodiment obtained from the steps of the manufacturing method of Figures 14 and 15.
- the probe comprises a lever C and a tip.
- This tip comprises the first part PT and the second part ZI.
- This second part ZI is arranged between the first part PT and the lever C.
- the first part PT of the tip has a tetrahedral shape. It has a triangular section whose height is continuously variable.
- the second part ZI of the tip has a non-triangular section.
- the height of the triangular section is less than the width Wc of the lever C.
- the window FO here opens onto the entire first part PF of the preform.
- the window FO also partially opens onto the second part of the preform.
- the window FO is offset by a length MO dx towards the second part of the preform.
- This window FO then contains the point OR.
- This point OR corresponds to an inflection point between the first part PF of the preform and the second part of said preform.
- the tip length can be modulated.
- the rule consisting of shifting the window FO along the X axis so as to obtain MO dx > 0, is associated with a width W PF of the first part of the preform greater than or equal to E/A/2.
- the MO dy value is greater than t.
- this MO dy value is less than or equal to t.
- Figure 19 is a zoom of step 4 of the method of Figure 4 with dimensions of the preform identical to those of Figure 18.
- the area etched by the TMAH (gray area) extends partially over the second part of the preform.
- the total mass of the tip is reduced and the polyhedra forming said tip have thicknesses less than E.
- Figure 20, Figure 21, Figure 30 and Figure 31 illustrate a probe according to a third variant embodiment obtained from the steps of the manufacturing method of Figures 18 and 19.
- the probe comprises a lever C and a tip.
- the lever C comprises a main portion C y intended to be connected to a support (not shown here) and a width-reducing portion C x extending said main portion C y .
- the main portion C y has a width Wc.
- the reduction portion C x has a width decreasing continuously between the width Wc and the width of an interface zone between the reduction portion C x and the tip.
- the tip comprises the first part PT and the second part ZI.
- This second part ZI is arranged between the first part PT and the lever C.
- the first part PT of the tip has a tetrahedral shape. It has a triangular section whose height is continuously variable.
- the second part ZI of the tip has a non-triangular section.
- said first part PT has a certain height H PT in the triangular section SPT.
- This height H PT is, here, less than the width Wc of the main part C y of the lever C.
- Figures 23 and 24 illustrate a probe according to a fourth variant embodiment obtained from the steps of the manufacturing method of Figures 18 and 10.
- the probe comprises a lever C and a tip.
- the lever C comprises a main portion C y intended to be connected to a support (not shown here) and a width-reducing portion C x extending said main portion C y .
- the main portion C y has a width Wc.
- the reduction portion C x has a width decreasing continuously between the width Wc and the width of an interface zone between the reduction portion C x and the tip.
- the reduction portion C x comprises a first inclined plane P1 cx extending from the main portion C y and a second inclined plane P2cx extending from the first inclined plane P1 ex to the probe.
- the inclination of the first inclined plane P1 cx is here different from the inclination of the second inclined plane P2 CX .
- the tip comprises the first part PT and the second part ZI.
- This second part ZI is arranged between the first part PT and the lever C.
- the first part PT of the tip has a tetrahedral shape. It has a triangular section whose height is continuously variable.
- the first part PT comprises an inclined plane P PT .
- This inclined plane PPT has the same inclination as the first inclined plane P1 ex of the reduction portion Cx-
- the second part ZI of the tip has a non-triangular section.
- This second part here comprises a first portion Zh extending from the lever C and a second portion Zl 2 arranged between the first portion Zh and the first part PT of the tip.
- the first portion Zh comprises an inclined plane Pzn , this plane extending between the lever C and the second portion Zl 2 .
- the inclined plane P Z n of the first portion Zh of the second part ZI of the tip has the same inclination as the second inclined plane P2cx of the reduction portion C x .
- said first part PT has a certain height H PT in the triangular section S PT .
- This height H PT is, here, less than the width Wc of the main part C y of the lever C.
- Figures 25, 26 and 27 respectively illustrate a fifth embodiment, a sixth embodiment and a seventh embodiment of the invention.
- the probe comprises a lever C and a tip.
- the lever C comprises a main portion C y intended to be connected to a support (not shown here) and a width-reducing portion C x extending said main portion C y .
- the main portion C y has a width Wc.
- the reduction portion C x has a width decreasing continuously between the width Wc and the width of an interface zone between the reduction portion C x and the tip.
- the tip comprises the first part PT and the second part ZI.
- This second part ZI is arranged between the first part PT and the lever C.
- the first part PT of the tip has a tetrahedral shape. It has a triangular section whose height is continuously variable.
- the second part ZI of the tip has a non-triangular section.
- said first part PT has a certain height in the triangular section. This height is, here, less than the width Wc of the main part C y of the lever C.
- the zone referenced ZI consists of a portion of arbitrary shape, here a rectangular parallelogram.
- Figures 26, 27 and 28 show more particularly a tetrahedral part with a plane followed by a trapezoidal zone ZI.
- the aspect ratio seen from the front is constant and equal to HP/B. Then this ratio decreases, if it is measured more and more towards the lever. It is thus equal to HT/B if we consider the entire zone under the lever C, that is to say the part referenced ZI associated with the part referenced PT.
- Figure 29 illustrates a manufacturing method for producing the embodiments of Figures 25, 26, 27 and 28. This method includes an additional step 3b in which the portion PF is partially and locally etched.
- each tip comprises the first part PT and the second part ZI.
- this second part ZI is arranged between the first part PT and the lever C.
- the first part PT has a tetrahedral shape having a triangular section whose height is continuously variable.
- second part ZI has a non-triangular section. At the interface between the first part PT and the second part ZI, the height of the triangular section of the first part PT is less than the width Wc of the lever C.
- the silicon tip can be used in any device intended to evaluate the topography of a surface.
- the silicon tip may be integrated into any device comprising microelectrodes.
- the silicon tip can serve as a microanode or microcathode in a field-effect emission device.
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