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@ARTICLE{Stern:1028934,
author = {Stern, Christian and Schwab, Christian and Kindelmann,
Moritz and Stamminger, Mark and Weirich, Thomas and Park,
Inhee and Hausen, Florian and Finsterbusch, Martin and Bram,
Martin and Guillon, Olivier},
title = {{C}orrelative characterization of plasma etching resistance
of various aluminum garnets},
journal = {Journal of the American Ceramic Society},
volume = {107},
number = {11},
issn = {0002-7820},
address = {Westerville, Ohio},
publisher = {Soc.},
reportid = {FZJ-2024-04877},
pages = {7105-7118},
year = {2024},
abstract = {Plasma etching is a crucial step in semiconductor
manufacturing. High cleanliness and wafer-to-wafer
reproducibility in the etching chamber are essential in
order to successfully achieve nanometer-sized integrated
functions on the wafer. The trend toward the application of
more aggressive plasma compositions leads to higher demands
on the plasma resistance of the materials used in the
etching chamber. Due to its excellent etch resistance,
yttrium aluminum garnet Y3Al5O12 (YAG) is starting to
replace established materials like SiO2 or Al2O3 in this
kind of application. In this study, reactive spark plasma
sintering (SPS) was used to manufacture highly dense YAG
ceramics from the respective oxides. In addition, yttrium
was replaced with heavier lanthanoids (Er, Lu), intending to
investigate the role of the A-site cation in the garnet type
structure on the plasma erosion behavior. The produced
materials were exposed to fluorine-based etching plasmas
mimicking the conditions in the semiconductor manufacturing
apparatus and the erosion behavior was characterized by
atomic force microscopy (AFM), secondary ion mass
spectrometry (SIMS), transmission electron microscopy (TEM),
and profilometry. The induced chemical gradient in the
samples is limited to a few nanometers below the surface,
which makes its characterization challenging. For advanced
analysis, we developed a correlative characterization method
combining SIMS and scanning TEM (STEM)–energy-dispersive
spectroscopy (EDS) enabling us to examine the structural and
chemical changes in the reaction layer locally resolved. In
the case of lanthanoid aluminates, an altered reaction layer
and reduced fluorine penetration compared to YAG were found.
However, a correlation between the characteristics of the
induced chemical gradient and the determined physical
erosion rates was not evident.},
cin = {IMD-2 / ER-C-2 / IET-1 / JARA-ENERGY},
ddc = {660},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IMD-2-20101013 / I:(DE-Juel1)ER-C-2-20170209 /
I:(DE-Juel1)IET-1-20110218 / $I:(DE-82)080011_20140620$},
pnm = {1221 - Fundamentals and Materials (POF4-122) / DFG project
274005202 - SPP 1959: Manipulation of matter controlled by
electric and magnetic fields: Towards novel synthesis and
processing routes of inorganic materials (274005202)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-1221 / G:(GEPRIS)274005202},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:001247850500001},
doi = {10.1111/jace.19951},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1028934},
}