Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying
Patent
1993-09-17
1997-07-01
Niebling, John
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
437901, 437921, 205656, C25F 312
Patent
active
056438036
ABSTRACT:
It is intended to provide an etching method for semiconductor devices in which the etching depth or the thickness of a thin thickness portion can be precisely controlled. According to experiment results, when a P-type substrate in which an N-type epitaxial layer is formed is immersed in an etching solution such as KOH or the like, and a voltage for reverse bias of PN junction is applied between an electrode plate opposing the substrate and the epitaxial layer to perform electrochemical etching, it has been found that the distance from the PN junction plane to the etching stop position is approximately equal to a depletion layer width at the substrate side of the PN junction portion. Namely, the etching stops at the forward end of the depletion layer. Therefore, the junction depletion layer width at the substrate side is controlled to be a size obtained by subtracting a necessary depth for etching from a thickness of the semiconductor substrate except for the semiconductor layer, so that the etching depth or the thickness of the thin thickness portion remaining after etching can be precisely controlled.
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Fukada Tsuyoshi
Sakai Minekazu
Sugito Hiroshige
Yoshino Yoshimi
Mee Brendan
Niebling John
Nippondenso Co. Ltd.
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