Preparation method of indium column array with regular shape
Technical Field
The invention provides a preparation method of an indium column array with a regular shape, and belongs to the technical field of infrared focal plane detectors.
Background
The infrared focal plane detector is forward to the development of large-scale area array and small-size pixels at the front, wherein the indium columns play a role in connecting an infrared focal plane array chip and a readout circuit to enable the infrared focal plane array chip and the readout circuit to be well conducted, blind pixels are easy to cause after the indium columns with low height and uneven morphology are subjected to flip-chip interconnection, short circuit defects are increased, and therefore the indium columns with consistent height and regular shape are required to be grown so as to ensure the connection quality of the indium columns after flip-chip interconnection.
The existing indium column growth process is to prepare an indium column array by carrying out evaporation after negative photoresist patterning, and the reason for adopting negative photoresist evaporation is that if a photoetching open pore is in a positive trapezoid shape, the upper mask layer is easier to strip. In the growth process, as the side wall of the photoetching hole has high-density micropores and rough interface characteristics, a thicker indium layer gradually grows transversely on the side wall of the photoetching hole along with the evaporation process, the photoetching hole is gradually blocked along with the increase of time, and the diameter of the top layer of the indium column is smaller and smaller, so that the top layer spike cone characteristics of low growth height and poor uniformity after the indium column is stripped are caused. Meanwhile, the development directions of large-scale area arrays and small-size pixels lead the growth conditions of indium columns to be more and more harsh, and the indium columns with unqualified growth heights and uneven shapes increase the difficulty of the interconnection process, so that the interconnection qualification rate is reduced, and the good hybrid interconnection coupling effect between chips and circuits is difficult to ensure.
Although the existing indium column reflow process can improve the uniformity of indium column growth by melting, soaking and surface tension treatment of the indium column, for the detector process below the pixel spacing of 10 μm, the whole indium quantity is low due to the influence of the transverse growth characteristic of the indium column, and the growth height is reduced after the indium column reflow process, so that the development of the indium column growth process with large growth height and regular shape is necessary.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides a preparation method of an indium column array with a regular shape, which aims to solve the problems of the existing indium column growth and reflow process that the growth height is not up to standard and the shape is not uniform.
In order to solve the technical problems, the technical scheme adopted by the invention is that the preparation method of the indium column array with the regular shape comprises the following steps:
S1, uniformly photoresist on the surface of a substrate and photoetching to form a photoetching hole array;
S2, carrying out surface modification treatment on the substrate after the photoetching process is completed;
S3, forming a uniform metal layer on the surface of the substrate subjected to surface modification treatment by adopting a coating process;
s4, forming a uniform indium layer on the surface of the substrate with the metal growth completed by adopting a coating process;
And S5, treating the substrate after the indium layer is grown by adopting a stripping and cleaning process, and removing the metal layer and the photoresist on the side wall of the photoetching hole array and the metal layer and the indium layer on the top of the photoresist, thereby obtaining the indium column array with large growth height and regular shape.
In the step S1, a photoresist homogenizing machine and a photoetching machine are adopted to form a photoetching hole array on a substrate through a photoetching process.
Each photoetching hole in the photoetching hole array is in an isosceles trapezoid shape after being molded, and the inner angles of the long bottom edges of the isosceles trapezoids are 70-85 degrees.
In the step S1, NR9-6000PY negative photoresist is selected to form a photoetching hole array.
In the step S2, the substrate is subjected to argon plasma surface treatment by adopting a plasma photoresist remover or is subjected to modification treatment by adopting flame treatment, RIE plasma etching treatment and corona discharge treatment.
The metal layer coating process of the step S3 and the indium layer coating process of the step S4 are completed by adopting ion beam evaporation, electron beam evaporation or magnetron sputtering evaporation processes.
In the step S3, the substrate is rotated 180 degrees in the vertical direction at a constant speed during metal evaporation, so that a metal layer with a specified thickness is evaporated on the bottom and the side wall of the photoetching hole.
The metal layer formed by vapor deposition in the step S3 adopts Ti/Pt/Au, cr/Au, ti/Au or Ti/Ni/Au combined metal.
The thickness of the indium layer formed in the step S4 is 6-8 μm.
The indium layer in step S4 can be replaced with an aluminum layer.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects:
1. The invention can increase the adhesive force between the metal layer and the side wall of the photoetching hole by carrying out argon plasma modification treatment on the surface of the photoetching hole array, can increase the metal evaporation incidence angle of the side wall of the photoetching hole by carrying out uniform rotation on the substrate of metal evaporation in the vertical direction, and can generate a relatively uniform and compact smooth metal layer on the side wall of the photoetching hole with high-density micropores and rough interfaces;
2. The invention can simultaneously complete the growth of the metal layer and the indium layer through one-time photoetching and two-time evaporation (metal and indium) processes, the metal layer at the bottom of the indium column is used as the UBM layer, wherein the UBM layer ( Under Bump Metallurgy) is a metallization transition layer between the chip bonding pad and the bump, better welding contact and conductivity can be provided for the chip and the indium column, no overlay deviation between the indium column array and the UBM layer caused by secondary photoetching is generated, and the metal layer on the side wall can be removed through stripping, so that the subsequent process is not negatively influenced.
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The invention is further described below with reference to the accompanying drawings:
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a lithographic aperture array structure after the lithography of step S1 of the method of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the method of the present invention in which the surface of the array of lithography holes is plasma treated in step S2;
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing the metal vapor deposition process in step S3 of the method of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of metal vapor deposition on the right sidewall of the photolithographic hole in step S3 of the method of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a schematic view of metal vapor deposition on the left sidewall of the lithographic aperture in step S3 of the method of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram showing the structure of the substrate after the metal vapor deposition is completed in step S3 of the method of the present invention;
FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram showing the structure of a substrate subjected to indium vapor deposition after step S4 of the method of the present invention;
FIG. 8 is a schematic view of an indium column array structure after stripping and cleaning steps in step S5 of the method of the present invention;
In the figure, 1 is a substrate, 2 is a photoetching hole array, 3 is photoresist, 4 is a metal evaporation source, 5 is a metal layer, 6 is an indium layer and 7 is an indium column array.
Detailed Description
As shown in fig. 1 to 8, the present invention provides a method for preparing an indium column array with regular shape, which comprises the steps of uniformly growing a compact smooth metal layer 5 on the side wall of a photoetching hole by modifying photoresist on a substrate 1 and rotationally evaporating metal, evaporating an indium layer 6, stripping the photoresist 3 from the metal layer by stripping the metal layer, wherein the smooth metal layer 5 on the side wall of the photoetching hole can inhibit the lateral growth of indium columns, so as to obtain an indium column array 7 with uniform growth height and regular morphology. The specific implementation steps are as follows:
s1, uniformly photoresist on the surface of a substrate 1 and photoetching to form a photoetching hole array 2;
s2, carrying out surface treatment on the substrate 1 after the photoetching process is completed;
S3, uniformly evaporating a metal layer 5 on the surface of the substrate 1 subjected to surface treatment;
s4, uniformly evaporating an indium layer 6 on the surface of the substrate 1 on which metal growth is completed;
S5, the substrate 1 after the indium layer 6 is grown is treated by adopting a stripping and cleaning process, and the metal layer 5 and the photoresist 3 on the side wall of the photoetching hole array 2 and the metal layer 5 and the indium layer 6 on the top of the photoresist 3 are removed, so that the indium column array 7 with large growth height and regular shape is obtained.
Wherein the substrate 1 is a chip of an infrared focal plane array of a metal layer 5 (UBM layer), an indium column array 7 to be prepared.
In the specific step S1, a photoresist homogenizer and photoetching are adopted to form a photoetching hole array 2 on a substrate 1 through a photoetching process, and the implementation steps are as follows:
selecting NR9-6000PY negative photoresist to form a photoetching hole array 2, uniformly dripping the NR9-6000PY negative photoresist at the center of a substrate 1, then running at a rotating speed of 300-800 rpm for 3-5 s, then running at a rotating speed of 1000-1500rpm for 30s to perform photoresist homogenization, placing the substrate 1 after photoresist homogenization on a heating plate, baking at a temperature of 120 ℃ for 300s to evaporate the solvent of the photoresist, performing local exposure on the photoresist at an exposure dose of 400-800 mj by using a contact mode (Hard) of an ultraviolet photoetching machine to define a graph (the graph is in an isosceles trapezoid shape), and placing the substrate 1 after the local exposure on the heating plate for baking at a temperature of 100-120 ℃ for 90-180 s to solidify the primer. And then placing the exposed substrate 1 into a tetramethyl ammonium hydroxide (2.38% TMAH) solution diluted by deionized water, developing for 40-80 s, taking out, placing into deionized water, fixing for 30-60 s, taking out the substrate 1, and drying by nitrogen, wherein an array of isostearic holes 2 is formed on the substrate 1. Each lithography hole in the lithography hole array 2 is in an isosceles trapezoid shape, and the inner angle of the long bottom edge of the isosceles trapezoid is 70-85 degrees.
In the specific step S2, a plasma photoresist remover can be adopted to carry out argon plasma surface treatment on the substrate 1, the implementation steps are that the substrate 1 after the photoetching process is put into the plasma photoresist remover, and the surface of the substrate 1 is treated by argon plasma with the flow of 300sccm and the power of 70W for 30-45S, as shown in FIG. 2, the purpose is to carry out surface modification on the side wall of the photoetching hole, and the adhesive force of the metal layer 5 in the step S3 when the side wall of the photoetching hole grows is increased.
The surface treatment of the substrate 1 in step S2 may be performed by flame treatment, RIE ( Reactive Ion Etching) plasma etching treatment, corona discharge treatment, or the like.
The substrate 1 after the photoetching process is fixed on a carrying table of an evaporation machine, the substrate 1 is uniformly rotated in the vertical direction, a metal layer 5 with a specified thickness is evaporated on the bottom and the side wall of a photoetching hole, namely Ti/Pt/Au is sequentially evaporated through a metal evaporation source 4, the thicknesses of the three are respectively 50/50/300nm, the substrate 1 is controlled to rotate in the vertical direction at a uniform speed in the evaporation process, a rotating arrow shown in fig. 3 is the rotating direction, the rotating evaporation process is shown in fig. 4-5, and the aim is to increase the evaporation incidence angle of metal particles emitted by the metal evaporation source 4 on the side wall of the photoetching hole, so that the adhesive force and compactness of the metal layer 5 grown on the side wall of the photoetching hole in different directions are further ensured.
Specifically, in the step S4, the substrate 1 after metal evaporation is fixed on a stage of an evaporator to evaporate an indium layer 6 with a thickness of 6-8 μm, and the purpose of the substrate is to grow an indium column array 7 in the photoetching hole array 2.
In a specific step S5, the substrate 1 after the growth of the indium layer 6 is subjected to a stripping and cleaning process, so as to strip and remove the metal layer 5 and the photoresist 3 on the sidewall of the photo-etching hole array 2 and the metal layer 5 and the indium layer 6 on the top of the photoresist 3, thereby obtaining an indium column array 7 with large growth height (the height is 6-8 μm), good morphology and regular shape, as shown in fig. 8.
The metal vapor deposition and indium vapor deposition methods in the steps S3 and S4 can adopt ion beam vapor deposition, electron beam vapor deposition or magnetron sputtering and other processes, and the vapor deposited metal can also be Cr/Au, ti/Au or Ti/Ni/Au combined metal.
The preparation method is also suitable for preparing the welding spots of aluminum by adopting a welding spot process.
In summary, the indium pillar array prepared by the method of the present invention has the following advantages:
1. Through modification of the side wall of the photoetching hole and a rotary evaporation metal process, a compact smooth metal layer 5 can be uniformly grown on the side wall of the photoetching hole, so that the appearance of the indium column array 7 can be greatly improved without a reflow process, and the subsequent interconnection performance is enhanced;
2. the pressure to be overcome by stripping is changed from the adhesion between the indium layer 6 and the photoresist 3 to the adhesion between the metal layer 5 and the photoresist 3, so that the efficiency of the stripping process can be increased, the thickness of the photoresist grown by the conventional indium column can be reduced from more than twice the height of the target indium column to 1.2-1.5 times the height of the target indium column, and the effect of saving the photoresist consumption is achieved;
3. the growth of the two structures of the UBM layer and the indium layer 6 can be simultaneously carried out by only one photoetching;
4. The invention can be compatible with the chip end process and the circuit end process of the infrared detection device with the pixel spacing of 7.5-50 mu m.
It should be noted that the above embodiments are merely for illustrating the technical solution of the present invention and not for limiting the same, and although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the above embodiments, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that the technical solution described in the above embodiments may be modified or some or all of the technical features may be equivalently replaced, and these modifications or substitutions do not make the essence of the corresponding technical solution deviate from the scope of the technical solution of the embodiments of the present invention.