DocumentCode
1042130
Title
Buckling of thermally-grown SiO2 thin films
Author
Wilmsen, C.W.
Volume
19
Issue
1
fYear
1972
fDate
1/1/1972 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
122
Lastpage
122
Abstract
The difference in thermal expansion causes compression in SiO2 thermally grown on Si wafers. Unsupported windows of SiO2 buckle if the oxide thickness/window width ratio (t/w) is too small. This correspondence presents the experimentally determined t/w ratio for stable films.
Keywords
Boundary conditions; Capacitive sensors; Etching; Hafnium; Optical films; Optical interferometry; Photonic band gap; Silicon; Temperature; Thermal expansion;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9383
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/T-ED.1972.17381
Filename
1476852
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