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Nanostructure Fabrication by Reactive-ion Etching of Laser-Focused Chromium on Silicon

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Author(s)

Jabez J. McClelland, R Gupta, Robert Celotta, G Porkolab

Abstract

We have fabricated chromium nanostructures on silicon by laser-focused atomic deposition, and have further processed these structures by reactive-ion etching in an SF6 plasma. We show that the result can be an array of parallel wires as narrow as 68 nm, or an array of parallel Si trenches as narrow as 85nm. The laser-focused deposition process is inherently parallel, so a large area is patterned simultaneously with an accurate periodicity of 212.78 nm. This method represents a novel way to make large, coherent arrays of sub-100 nm-size structures.
Citation
Applied Physics B-Lasers and Optics
Volume
66

Citation

McClelland, J. , Gupta, R. , Celotta, R. and Porkolab, G. (1998), Nanostructure Fabrication by Reactive-ion Etching of Laser-Focused Chromium on Silicon, Applied Physics B-Lasers and Optics, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=620488 (Accessed March 29, 2024)
Created January 1, 1998, Updated February 19, 2017