Chemistry: electrical and wave energy – Processes and products
Patent
1984-08-31
1986-05-20
Bueker, Richard
Chemistry: electrical and wave energy
Processes and products
204 383, 204 42, 427 63, H01L 3922, H01L 3924
Patent
active
045899614
ABSTRACT:
In an improvement to the Selective Non-Anodizing Process (SNAP) an anodizable layer, nominally 100 nm of aluminum, is deposited on top of a 300 nm niobium--6 nm silicon--30 nm niobium tri-layer upon a substrate of oxidized silicon. The structure is then masked with photoresist and etched with an (aluminum) etchant, nominally phosphoric plus acetic plus nitric acid, which is selective to etch aluminum but not niobium. The structure, now containing a hard layer of aluminum plus an uppermost layer of photoresist over the regions where Josephson junctions will be formed, is then anodized by voltage ramping from 0 to 50 volts each 10 seconds in a saturate solution of ammonium penta borate in an equal solution of ethylene glycol and water. Both the uppermost niobium of the tri-layer and the aluminum are anodized save where protected by the photoresist. A protective insulator layer, nominally silicon mono oxide, is deposited by sputtering after which the mask of photoresist over aluminum is removed by the lift-off technique etching both anodized and remaining non-anodized aluminum. To the well-defined islands of niobium in a plane of anodized niobium, upper contact electrodes are formed by conventional deposition, photo lithographic, and etching techniques. This method so fabricating Josephson junction devices well-protects and defines the junctions under development while simultaneously reducing and simplifying the number of steps required in the patterning of the insulator layer.
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Bowen Glenn W.
Bueker Richard
Fuess William C.
Sperry Corporation
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