5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
[20p-223-8] Atomic Layer Etching with Gas Cluster Ion Beams
Keywords:atomic layer etching, gas cluster ion beam, acetic acid
Recently, atomic layer etching (ALE), that repeats gas adsorption / evacuation / surface layer removal, attracts many attentions. We have been studying the application of gas cluster ion beam (GCIB) to the ALE technique. GCIB realizes ultra-low-energy irradiation (several eV/atom). In addition, GCIB can create high density energy which can not be realized with a monomer ions. This may promote surface reaction at low temperature. In the lecture, we will report the application of GCIB for ALE of metal films using acetic acid or acetylacetone.