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Room-Temperature Bonding of Wafers with Smooth Au Thin Films in Ambient Air Using a Surface-Activated Bonding Method

Eiji HIGURASHI, Ken OKUMURA, Yutaka KUNIMUNE, Tadatomo SUGA, Kei HAGIWARA

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Summary :

Wafers with smooth Au thin films (rms surface roughness: < 0.5nm, thickness: < 50nm) were successfully bonded in ambient air at room temperature after an Ar radio frequency plasma activation process. The room temperature bonded glass wafers without any heat treatment showed a sufficiently high die-shear strength of 47-70MPa. Transmission electron microscopy observations showed that direct bonding on the atomic scale was achieved. This surface-activated bonding method is expected to be a useful technique for future heterogeneous photonic integration.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E100-C No.2 pp.156-160
Publication Date
2017/02/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1353
DOI
10.1587/transele.E100.C.156
Type of Manuscript
Special Section INVITED PAPER (Special Section on Fabrication Technologies Supporting the Photonic/Nanostructure Devices)
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Authors

Eiji HIGURASHI
  The University of Tokyo
Ken OKUMURA
  The University of Tokyo
Yutaka KUNIMUNE
  The University of Tokyo
Tadatomo SUGA
  The University of Tokyo
Kei HAGIWARA
  NHK Science and Technology Research Laboratories

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