Specific Process Knowledge/Thin film deposition/Deposition of Aluminium

Aluminium can be deposited by e-beam evaporation, by sputter and by thermal evaporation. In the chart below you can compare the different methods on the different deposition equipment.

	E-beam evaporation (Alcatel)	E-beam evaporation (Leybold)	E-beam evaporation (Wordentec)	Sputter deposition (Wordentec)	Thermal evaporation (Wordentec)
Batch size	Up to 1x4" wafers smaller pieces	8x4" wafers or 5x6" wafers	24x2" wafers or 6x4" wafers or 6x6" wafers	24x2" wafers or 6x4" wafers or 6x6" wafers	24x2" wafers or 6x4" wafers or 6x6" wafers
Pre-clean	RF Ar clean	Ar ion bombartment	RF Ar clean	RF Ar clean	RF Ar clean
Layer thickness	10Å to 1µm	10Å to 1500 Å	10Å to 1 µm	10Å to ~0.5µm (very time consuming )	10Å to 0.5 µm (this uses all Al in the boat)
Deposition rate	2Å/s to 15Å/s
Thickness uniformity
Roughness