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! colspan="2" align="center"| Common parameters
 
! colspan="3" align="center"| Multiplexed parameters
 
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! Parameter 
 
! Setting
 
! Parameter
 
! Etch
 
! Passivation
 
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! Temperature
 
| 20<sup>o</sup>C
 
! SF<sub>6</sub> Flow
The ICP-DRIE (Inductively Coupled Plasma - Deep Reactive Ion Etcher) tool at Danchip is manufactured by STS and is called the ASE (Advanced Silicon Etcher). The main purpose of the ASE is etching of silicon using Bosch process.
| 230 sccm
 
| 0 sccm
==The Bosch process:==
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! No. of cycles
The Bosch process uses alternation between an
| 250
etch cycle and a passivation cycle. In the case of the silicon etching on the ASE, an etch phase with SF<sub>6</sub> and O<sub>2</sub> alternates with a passivation phase with C<sub>4</sub>F<sub>8</sub>.
! O<sub>2</sub> Flow
 
| 23 sccm
Two recipes have been optimized for the ASE: A shallow etch shallolr and a deep etch
| 0 sccm
deepetch.
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! Process time
| 54:10 mins
! C<sub>4</sub>F<sub>4</sub> Flow
| 0 sccm
| 120 sccm
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! APC mode
| manual
! RF coil
| 2800 W
| 1000 W
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! APC setting
| 87.7 %
! RF Platen
| 19 W
| 0 W
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! Cycle time
| 8 s
| 5 s
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