WO2007114191A1 - メンブレン構造素子及びその製造方法 - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a membrane structure element mainly used for a thermal sensor such as an infrared sensor, an air flow meter, and a gas sensor.
- the thermal sensor employs a hollow structure in which a membrane (film) including a detection electronic element is supported in a hollow state with respect to the substrate in order to maintain heat insulation with respect to the substrate.
- a membrane structure element An element having a structure in which the membrane is supported in a hollow state is called a membrane structure element.
- the membrane is a silicon oxide film such as a SiO (silicon dioxide) film excellent in thermal insulation.
- This film can be easily formed by oxidizing the surface of the silicon substrate.
- the SiO film formed by surface oxidation in this way is called a “thermally oxidized SiO film”. But this thermal oxidation
- SiO film has a coefficient of thermal expansion higher than that of most substrate materials such as single crystal silicon.
- the membrane is hollowed by etching, etc., and the membrane has a hollow structure, it is caused by the large compressive stress remaining on the thermally oxidized SiO film (about 200 MPa when the substrate is single crystal silicon)
- the membrane supported in a hollow state is in a “sag” state. For this reason, the quality of the membrane structure element is deteriorated, and the strength of the membrane is lowered. For this reason, it is difficult to form a membrane with a large area.
- Patent Document 1 Japanese Laid-Open Patent Publication No. 6_132277 (Patent Document 1) describes that a membrane is composed of a Si N film and a SiO 2 film having different thermal expansion coefficients.
- the Si N film reduces the compressive residual stress inherent in the SiO film.
- Patent Document 2 Japanese Laid-Open Patent Application No. 8-264844 states that the central portion of the membrane is a Si N film. Or by adding a group V element to the SiO film to lower the Young's modulus of the membrane.
- Non-patent Document 1 a polysilicon wiring that also serves as a heater is attached to the SiO membrane.
- Patent Document 1 Japanese Published Patent No. 6-132277
- Patent Document 2 Japanese Published Patent No. 8-264844
- Non-Patent Document 1 Lie-yi Sheng et al., Transducers '97, 1997, PP.939-942.
- the thermal conductivity of SiO is more than an order of magnitude larger than 1.4 W / mK, so the membrane
- the present invention has been made in view of the serious problem, and an object of the present invention is to provide a membrane structure element that is easy to manufacture, has good heat insulation, and has high quality, and a method for manufacturing the same. Means for solving the problem
- the present inventor retains a compressive stress in the film as in the case of the thermal oxide silicon oxide film, but thereafter performs a heat treatment.
- the film was densified and thermally contracted, and it was found that a small stress of ⁇ 100 MPa or less can be suppressed near room temperature.
- the silicon oxide film hardly stagnates or warps, and is composed of the silicon oxide, so that the heat insulation is improved.
- An excellent membrane with excellent flatness can be obtained.
- the present invention has been completed on the basis of strength and knowledge.
- the membrane structure element manufacturing method of the present invention includes a membrane formed of a silicon oxide film and a substrate that supports the membrane in a hollow state by supporting a part of the periphery of the membrane.
- a membrane forming process comprising: forming a thermally shrinkable oxide film on a surface side of a substrate formed of a material having a larger thermal expansion coefficient than that of the oxide of the membrane; A heat treatment step of heating and shrinking the heat-shrinkable silicon oxide film; and a membrane-corresponding portion of the silicon oxide film as a membrane to be supported in a hollow state with respect to the substrate.
- a removal process for removing a part in a concave shape is provided.
- the heat-shrinkable silicon oxide film is formed on the substrate, and the silicon oxide film is thermally shrunk in the heat treatment step.
- the compressive stress inherent in the silicon oxide film can be easily reduced or eliminated.
- the membrane since the membrane is formed only with a silicon oxide film, it has excellent heat insulation properties.
- an element forming step of forming a metal wiring of a predetermined pattern on the surface of the silicon oxide film can be provided, and the heat-shrinkable silicon oxide film is formed by plasma CVD. It can be easily formed by the method.
- the film is formed by the plasma CVD method, it is preferable that silane gas is used as a film forming source gas, the substrate temperature during film formation is 200 ° C. or lower, and the input power is 0.21 W / cm 2 or lower.
- the heating temperature is preferably 400 ° C or higher.
- a membrane having a hollow structure excellent in flatness can be obtained.
- a substrate made of single crystal silicon is used, a part of the substrate is removed by silicon anisotropic etching in the removing step. By leaving, a recess can be easily formed along the substrate surface at the bottom of the membrane.
- the membrane structure element of the present invention includes a membrane formed of a silicon oxide film, and a substrate that supports the membrane in a hollow state by supporting a part of the periphery of the membrane.
- the silicon oxide film is supported on the substrate in a flat shape by thermal contraction.
- the maximum stagnation force S of the membrane is 0.1% of the maximum width of the membrane, with the surface of the silicon oxide film having the same structure as the membrane formed on the surface of the substrate as the reference plane.
- the membrane is formed of a silicon oxide film and is supported in a flat shape by thermal contraction, so that it is easy to manufacture, excellent in heat insulation and quality of the membrane, and as a result is reliable as an electronic component. Excellent durability.
- the membrane that is the basis of the membrane is formed in advance with a heat-shrinkable silicon oxide film, and this is heat-shrinked in the heat treatment step. Therefore, the stress inherent in the silicon oxide film can be easily controlled over the range from compression to tension, and the stress inherent in the membrane can be reduced without taking complicated film structures of different compositions and complicated manufacturing processes. This eliminates the membrane hollow structure with excellent flatness and quality.
- the membrane structure element of the present invention the membrane is formed of a silicon oxide film and is supported in a flat shape by thermal contraction, so that it is easy to manufacture, excellent in quality, and reliable as an electronic component. Excellent durability.
- a membrane structure element used for a thermal sensor such as an infrared sensor, an air flow meter, and a gas sensor
- the element structure and the manufacturing process are simplified and the performance is improved and a highly reliable element is provided. can do.
- FIG. 1 is an explanatory view showing a manufacturing process of a membrane structure element that is useful in an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a (1) cross-sectional view and (2) a plan view of a membrane structure element that is useful in an embodiment of the present invention.
- (1) is a cross section along line A_A in (2).
- 3] A graph showing the relationship between the plasma CVD power input and the stress of the silicon oxide film
- FIG. 4 is a graph showing the relationship between the heating temperature and film stress of a silicon oxide film formed by plasma CVD.
- FIG. 5 is an infrared absorption spectrum of a silicon oxide film before and after heat treatment.
- FIG. 2 shows a membrane structure element that can be applied to the embodiment.
- This element is a square-shaped membrane 1 formed of a silicon oxide film 3 and an oxide film forming the membrane 1.
- the silicon substrate 2 is provided with an oxyhyde silicon film 3 having the same film configuration as that formed on the surface thereof.
- the membrane 1 is supported in a hollow and flat shape by four support arms 5 on a recess 4 provided in the substrate 2.
- the membrane 1, the support arm 5, and the silicon oxide film 3 on the substrate are integrally formed so as to connect the four corners of the membrane 1 and the substrate 2.
- a Pt / Ti wiring element 6 in which a two-layer structure line of a Pt layer and a Ti layer constituting a detection electronic element is arranged in a vertically bent shape is laminated on the surface.
- a general-purpose silicon substrate single crystal silicon substrate with a crystal orientation (100) 2 is prepared, and as shown in Fig. 1 (1), the front and back surfaces of the substrate 2 are thermally oxidized to a thickness of about 0.1 ⁇ m. Thin thermal oxide oxide films 11 and 12 are formed. The back surface thermal oxide silicon oxide film 12 is formed to protect the back surface of the silicon substrate when it is etched in a later step. Basic In addition, the surface-side thermally oxidized silicon oxide film 11 is not necessary. For this reason, the thermal oxidation silicon oxide film 11 on the front surface side is provided with an appropriate protective film on the back surface of the substrate which can be removed after the film formation, thereby forming the thermal oxidation silicon oxide film on the front and back surfaces.
- the thermal oxidation oxide film 11 on the surface side does not exist, but it is extremely thin as about 0.1 lzm.
- the effect on the residual stress can be ignored by making the heat-shrinkable silicon oxide film 13 described later sufficiently thicker than the thermally oxidized silicon oxide film 11. For this reason, in this embodiment, the surface-side thermally oxidized silicon oxide film 11 is left as it is.
- a heat-shrinkable oxide film 13 is formed on the surface-side thermally oxidized oxide film 11.
- This process is called a film forming process.
- the thickness of the heat-shrinkable silicon oxide film may be set within a range of about 0.1: 1 zm to about ⁇ zm from the viewpoint of film strength and thermal insulation.
- the thermally oxidized silicon oxide film 11 it is preferable that the thickness of the thermally oxidized oxide film 11 is not less than 5 times.
- the surface-side thermal oxide oxide film 11 and the heat-shrinkable oxide film 13 are not distinguished from each other and are collectively referred to as the oxide oxide film 3.
- a plasma CVD method is preferable from the viewpoint of film forming speed and ease of film forming.
- the plasma input power and the stress remaining in the film when a silicon oxide film is formed by the plasma CVD method will be described.
- a silicon oxide film was formed in the following manner.
- a silicon substrate (thickness: 525 ⁇ m) on which the thermal oxide oxide film 11 (thickness: 0.1 ⁇ m) is formed is prepared, and a 1 ⁇ m-thick oxide film is formed thereon by plasma CVD.
- the film was formed by the method.
- the sample size of the plasma CVD apparatus used for film formation and the size of the electrode placed opposite to it are each 30 cm in diameter (surface area of about 707 cm 2 ).
- the deposition conditions were SiH, N, NO mixed gas, gas pressure of 80Pa, basic
- the plate temperature was set to 200 ° C or 300 ° C, and various types of silicon oxide films were formed by changing the plasma input power.
- the residual stress of each film was measured using each silicon oxide film.
- the residual stress of the film was determined from the following formula based on the amount of warpage of the substrate. The value measured at room temperature (23 ° C) was used as the amount of warpage.
- the substrate (diameter 100mm ⁇ ) is supported at three points to reflect the laser beam. was measured using a stylus type surface roughness meter.
- E Young's modulus of substrate (silicon)
- V Poson ratio of substrate (silicon)
- Rpost radius of curvature of substrate warp after deposition
- Rpre radius of curvature of substrate warp before deposition
- ts Substrate thickness, film thickness, (E / (l-v) value: 1.8 ⁇ 10 U Pa for single crystal silicon (100) substrate.
- FIG. 3 shows the relationship between the plasma input power obtained as described above and the stress remaining in the film. From the figure, for example, when the substrate temperature is 300 ° C and the input power is 100 W, the residual stress of the film is 300 MPa (compression), and the internal stress after film formation decreases as the input power increases.
- the residual stress of the oxide film after the film formation is a compressive stress is understood from the fact that the substrate after the film formation is warped with the oxide film surface convex. It can also be seen that the residual stress is reduced when the substrate temperature is 200 ° C rather than 300 ° C.
- the substrate on which the heat-shrinkable silicon oxide film was formed was subjected to heat treatment, and the heat-shrinkable silicon oxide film 13 was heat-shrinked so that the heat-shrinkable silicon oxide film 13 was inherent in the silicon oxide film 3 Reduce or eliminate compressive residual stress.
- This process is called a heat treatment process.
- the stress force that was 200MPa before the heat treatment was almost unchanged up to around S400 ° C, but it changed rapidly between 400 ° C and 700 ° C (turned to positive). . It is considered that the internal stress is changed to a positive (tensile stress) when the dangling bonds in the silicon oxide film react in this temperature range and the film becomes dense and slightly contracts.
- 700 ° C force 800 ° C the slope of the curve decreases, and when the temperature is lowered, the stress decreases almost linearly Finally, it shows a value of about -80 MPa at room temperature.
- the heating temperature in the heat treatment is preferably about 1000 ° C, preferably 400 ° C or higher, but is preferably 800 ° C or lower, more preferably 700 ° C or lower. It turns out that it is good to do.
- Each substrate on which a silicon oxide film was formed by changing the input power by the plasma CVD method was subjected to a heat treatment at 800 ° C for lhr in nitrogen gas.
- the stress reduction effect is greater when the film is formed with a small input power and the stress after the heat treatment.
- the internal stress became almost zero at an input power of 75 W, and it decreased to about -50 MPa on average.
- a heat-shrinkable silicon oxide film formed at a substrate temperature of 200 ° C and an input power of 75 W to 150 W (0.1 lW / cm 2 to 0.21 W / cm 2 ) has a residual stress of 0 to +50 MPa. Internal stress became tensile stress.
- the residual stress of the film can be adjusted to about lOOMPa or less, the substrate temperature is 300 ° C or less, and the input power is 150 W (0.21 W / cm 2 )
- the residual stress of the film can be adjusted to about ⁇ 50 MPa or less.
- the substrate temperature is 200 ° C. or less and the input power to 150 W (0.21 W / cm 2 ) or less
- the residual stress of the film can be adjusted to a tensile stress of about 0 to +50 MPa.
- the input power is preferably 50 W (0.07 WZcm 2 ) or more and the substrate temperature is preferably 100 ° C. or more.
- the stress reduction effect by the heat treatment was confirmed from the organizational viewpoint by the following adjustment.
- film formation is performed at a substrate temperature of 200 ° C and input power of 75 W in Fig. 3.
- Figure 5 shows the infrared absorption spectrum of the fish. From the figure, when heat treatment is performed, Si—OH bonds and absorption by HO observed in the vicinity of wave numbers 300 to 3700 cm— and 950 CHT 1
- the band disappears and the main band of silicon oxide near lC ⁇ OcnT 1 shows an increasing trend. That is, the silicon oxide film is changed from a state in which there are many incomplete bonds therein to a denser silicon oxide film by calo-heat treatment. From this, it is considered that the film shrinks by heat treatment and changes to a tensile stress state.
- a Pt / Ti wiring element having a predetermined pattern is formed on the silicon oxide film 3 after the heat treatment by a lift-off method or the like.
- a force for forming an appropriate wiring pattern in addition to the above-described sensing element wiring pattern is not shown on the silicon oxide film 3. This process is called an element forming process.
- the silicon of the substrate 2 under the membrane corresponding portion including the Pt / Ti wiring element and sliding the silicon oxide film portion (membrene corresponding portion) in the vicinity thereof to the hollow structure is removed.
- This process is called a removal process.
- a portion of the membrane 1 corresponding to the support arm 5 (see Fig. 2) is avoided and the oxide film 3 is chemically or
- the opening 14 is formed by removal by physical means.
- the substrate 2 is immersed in an etching solution, and the silicon of the substrate 2 exposed in the opening 14 is etched.
- the silicon is anisotropically etched depending on the crystal orientation, and the concave portion 4 penetrating in the lateral direction is easily formed in the lower portion of the membrane corresponding portion.
- a TMAH (tetramethylammonium hydroxide) solution heated to about 80 ° C. is used as the etching solution. After the recess 4 is formed, the etching solution is washed so as not to break the membrane and dried to complete the membrane structure element shown in FIG.
- the substrate temperature was set to 300 ° C
- the plasma CVD input power was set to 100W and 200W (the post-deposition silicon oxide film 3
- the maximum sag amount at room temperature of the membrane supported in the hollow state (maximum sag of the membrane measured with the surface of the substrate oxide film 3 as the reference plane)
- the distance to the surface of the part) was measured, and the ratio of the maximum amount of stagnation to the maximum width of the membrane was determined.
- the maximum amount of stagnation of the membrane is measured using optical techniques. did. Specifically, it was measured using the height measurement function of the microscope.
- the input power of S100W was 0 ⁇ 05%
- that of 200W was 0.1%, confirming that the membrane was supported on the substrate in an extremely flat state.
- the temperature easily rises due to the heat insulation and small heat capacity of the membrane structure by passing a current through the Pt / Ti wiring element.
- the heat-shrinkable silicon oxide film 13 is formed by a plasma CVD method.
- the plasma CVD method is not limited, and a PVD method such as sputtering or vapor deposition, a sol Any method can be applied as long as it is a method of forming a silicon oxide film having a density lower than that of the thermally oxidized silicon oxide film, such as a gel method.
- a single crystal silicon substrate is used as the substrate.
- the present invention is not limited to this, and other crystals, ceramics, resins, and the like can be used.
- each process was performed in the order of the film formation process, the heat treatment process, the element formation process, and the removal process because of the ease of manufacturing a hollow and flat membrane. If the element formation process is prior to the removal process, a wiring element is formed on the silicon oxide film, and then an oxide film is formed on the wiring element, and the wiring element is wrapped with the oxide film. It is also possible to adopt a configuration (films exist above and below the element). When the element process is not performed, the heat treatment process and the removal process may be interchanged.
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