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Wet etching copper with low undercut rates?
2004-05-03
Sanjay Vijendran
Wet etching copper with low undercut rates?
Sanjay Vijendran
2004-05-03
Hi All,

 I'm electroplating 5um of Cu onto a Si wafer using a 50nm/100nm Cr/Cu
seed layer under a resist mould. Does anyone know how I might be able to
etch off the seed layer  with wet etching, while protecting the fine
features (~4um lines) on the wafer? The chrome and copper etchants I
have used so far have massive undercut rates such that to etch off even
100nm of  Cu, the lateral undercut is many microns. Would ammonium
persulfate help in reducing the undercut rate?

Thanks very much.

Best regards,
Sanjay

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