Original ArticleSelected-area growth of nickel micropillars on aluminum thin films by electroless plating for applications in microbolometers a Faculty of Engineering Physics and Nanotech
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Selected-area growth of nickel micropillars on aluminum thin
films by electroless plating for applications in microbolometers
a Faculty of Engineering Physics and Nanotechnology, VNU University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University, 144 Xuan Thuy, Hanoi,
Viet Nam
b Nano and Energy Center, VNU University of Science, 334 Nguyen Trai Street, Hanoi, Viet Nam
c Department of Advanced Materials Science and Nanotechnology, University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, Hanoi, Viet Nam
d Center for High Technology Development, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, Hanoi, Viet Nam
a r t i c l e i n f o
Article history:
Received 5 April 2017
Received in revised form
12 May 2017
Accepted 12 May 2017
Available online 18 May 2017
Keywords:
Nickel electroless plating
Micropillars
MEMS
Microbolometer
Selected-area growth
a b s t r a c t
An optimization process of electroless plating of nickel was carried out with NiCl2as the nickel ion source, NaH2PO2as the reduction agent, CH3COONa and Na3C6H5O7as complexing agents Electroless plated nickel layers on sputtered aluminum corning glass substrates with a resistivity of about 75.9mUcm and a nickel concentration higher than 93% were obtained This optimum process was successfully applied in growing nickel micropillars at selected areas with a well-controlled height The microstructure of the masking layers was fabricated by means of optical photolithography for subsequent growth of nickel micropillars on selected areas Micropillars size was defined by the opening size and the height was controlled by adjusting the plating time at a growth rate of 0.41mm/min This result shows that electroless nickel plating could be a good candidate for growing micropillars for applications in microbolometers
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1 Introduction
The integration between micro electro-mechanical systems
(MEMS) and complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS)
circuits allows a huge range of smart applications starting from
simple actuator functionalities to sophisticated sensing andfluidic
system-on-a-chip devices[1] Microbolometers are typical
MEMS-based devices whose performance had been enhanced by the
monolithic integration of MEMS upon integrated circuit (IC)
sub-strates using MEMS-last processing via layer deposition and surface
micromachining Since then MEMS-based microbolometers have
been used for the detection of long wavelength infrared (LWIR)
[2e5]and terahertz electromagnetic radiation[6e8]
Electroless or autocatalytic plating of metals is a well-developed coating technique which involves the presence of a chemical agent
in a solution to reduce metallic ions into its bulk or thin metalfilm state[9] The autocatalytic plating is defined as the deposition of a metal layer by a controlled chemical reduction which is catalyzed
by the metal or alloy being deposited This plating process has been used to yield metal deposits, such as Ni, Pd, Cu, Au, and Ag as well as some alloys containing these metals with impurities such as P, B or
N[10] In semiconductor industry, electroless plating and electro-plating have been used in making interconnection between metal layers[11]
On the other hand, electroless plating and electroplating of nickel
is one of the important fabrication steps in MEMS process, which is described by the term LIGA (lithography, galvanoforming and moulding)[12e14] Among other metals, nickel is one of the com-mon elements to be electroless plated on a metal surface, such as aluminum, copper or alloys Electroless nickel (EN) plating has been widely used in MEMS fabrication process thank to its simplicity
[15e17] EN plating was reported in Ref.[4]for making pillars of microbolometer arrays with a good sensitivity and detectivity but the sacrificial planarization layer has not been intentionally
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Trang 2removed for enhancing the thermal isolation of microbolometers.
The growing of these pillars in EN plating process must be occurred
only in selected aluminum areas, thus requiring a masking layer to
protect un-wanted deposition of nickel on other areas[18] The
drawback is that this masking layer could be damaged by a large
range of pH level of the electroless plating bath and the
pretreat-ment, activation and zincating solutions[15,16,19,20]
In this paper, we present an experimental study on electroless
nickel plating for applications in microbolometers The study starts
from an optimization of the electroless plating bath for depositing
nickel on aluminum surface and ends up at the controlled growth
of nickel micropillars on selected areas with the masking layer
patterned by a conventional optical lithography process
2 Experimental procedures
Nickel electroless plating processes were carried out as
following: (i) aluminum samples preparation, (ii) zincating and
rinsing, (iii) EN plating in a Ni-P containing a bath Bulk aluminum
samples with a purity of 99.99% were used as a reference and the
optimization of bath composition Thin aluminumfilms were used
after obtaining the optimum bath composition These Al thinfilms,
with thicknesses about 200 nm, were deposited on clean corning
glass substrates by sputtering a two-inch aluminum target, 99.99%
of purity, at 60 W for 60 min, on a 4-mangetron-gun sputtering
system from SYSKEY Before the electroless plating step, aluminum
samples were pretreated by a zincating procedure, with the
composition of each solution described onTable 1 For bulk Al
samples the zincating time was 15 s for each dipping step, while it
was 5 s for thin Alfilm samples After the zincating step, all samples
were rinsed in deionized water and the electroless plating step was
taken place immediately afterward
Compositions of nickel electroless plating baths are showed on
Table 2 The optimization of the bath composition was carried out
additives”, after using CH3COONa and Na3C6H5O7as additives The
plating temperature wasfixed at 90C, and the pH level of the bath
was kept around 6 to 7
For selected-area growth of nickel by electroless plating, only
various opening size ranging from 6mm to 8mm, was patterned by
using a conventional photolithography contact procedure The
photoresist AZ5214E, from Microchemicals, was used as both the
transferring layer and the masking layer Since the zincating and
plating duration was quite short, the hard-baked photoresist layer
was not damaged during all experiments After the pattering
pro-cess by photolithography, nickel micropillars were grown on
un-masked areas by the optimized electroless plating process showed
above
The morphology of all samples was characterized on a con-ventional optical microscope and by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), on a SEM Hitachi S-4800 system The chemical composition
of nickel electroless plated was characterized by energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) on the same SEM system The sheet resistance of electroless plated nickel was measured on a four-point RM3000 Jandel prober The thickness of nickel micropillars was characterized on an Alpha-Step DEKTAK150 profilometer
3 Results and discussion 3.1 Electroless plating of nickel The optimization of electroless nickel plating was performed on bulk aluminum samples with the starting“plain bath” composition showed onTable 1 The morphology, the chemical composition of samples' surface and sheet resistance of the sample were used an optimizing parameter In order to obtain this“plain bath” compo-sition, many trial experiments have been done by changing the bath temperature, the order of putting the substrate and the reduction agent (NaH2PO2) into the solution, and different combi-nation of nickel source (NiCl2 and NiSO4) On the one hand, the concentration of Ni in the“plain bath”, about 7.5 g/L, was quite similar to the concentration of electroless plating of nickel in in-dustry At this range of nickel concentration, the deposition rate of electroless plating is not much affected by thefluctuation of nickel concentration in the bath[21,22] On the other hand, the pH value
of the“plain bath” composition was smaller than the value yielding low value of phosphorus concentration of plated nickelfilm[21] This led to the introduction of additives into the bath for the sub-sequent optimization For the availability of chemicals in local,
CH3COONa and Na3C6H5O7were chosen As found in the literature, acetates and citrates are complexing agents They play three roles: (i) maintain stable pH level, (ii) prevent precipitation of nickel salts such as phosphites, (iii) reduce the concentration of free nickel ion
[23e25] The optimizing “bath with additives” composition is showed inTable 1 For this optimized bath, the insertedfigures of
Fig 1show (a) a bulk aluminum surface before and (b) after the electroless nickel plating process It can be seen that the aluminum
Table 1
100 ml zincating solutions composition.
1st beaker 2nd beaker 3rd beaker
Composition NaOH 0.1 g HNO3 10% NaOH 0.1 g
ZnO 0.05 g
Table 2
100 ml baths composition.
Bath description NiCl 2 $6H 2 O (g) NaH 2 PO 2 $H 2 O (g) CH 3 COOH 80% (ml) CH 3 COONa (g) Na 3 C 6 H 5 O 7 (g) pH level
Fig 1 EDS spectrum of electroless nickel plating on bulk aluminum sample Inserted figures are bulk aluminum sample (a) before and (b) after electroless nickel plating with additives.
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an electroless plated nickel layer The graph ofFig 1exhibits the
EDS spectrum taken from this electroless plated nickel deposition
on bulk aluminum surface It is worth noting that all EDS spectra in
this study are used for the purpose of chemical elements analysis only OnFig 1Ni and P peaks are found suggesting the abundance
of nickel and the presence of phosphorus as an impurity Surpris-ingly, there is no aluminum peak observed even though this
Fig 2 Optical images of thin aluminum sample: (a) as deposited surface, (b) after zincating treatment, (c) after 5 min of electroless nickel plating and (d) after 10 min of electroless nickel plating.
Fig 3 Surface morphology on SEM images of electroless plating on aluminum thin film: (a) just after zingcating steps; (b) surface and (c) cross-section after 5 min; (d) surface and
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aluminum surface is coated completely by a P-containing Ni thick
film and the nickel concentration was estimated roughly to be
higher than 90% The residual phosphorus in the electroless plated
nickel was unavoidable since the reducing agent was NaH2PO2
applied to plate auto-catalytically nickel on 200 nm of thickness
thin aluminumfilms.Fig 2shows the surface of an aluminum thin
film sample (a) as deposited by sputtering, (b) after the zincating
treatment, (c) after 5 min and (d) after 10 min of electroless plating
We can see that the aluminum surface is darken after the zincating treatment and the electroless plated nickel surface after 5 min is more homogenous than after 10 min
In order to shed some light on the morphology of the electroless plated nickel surface, Fig 3shows SEM micrographs of samples after each treatment step OnFig 3a, a nanostructured aluminum surface is observed after the zincating treatment This nano-structure surface favors the growth of nickel in the subsequent electroless plating step.Fig 3b, and respectivelyFig 3c, shows the morphology, and the cross-section respectively, of electroless plated nickel after 5 min.Fig 3d, and respectivelyFig 3e, are for the sample after 10 min of nickel plating time From these micrographs,
we can see that the morphology of nickel layers are likely an as-sembly of micro-sized spheres These spheres became larger as the plating time increased from 5 min to 10 min From the cross-section micrographs, we can see that the underneath layer exhibits a submicron-sized structure By measuring the thickness, which is 2.88mm for 5 min and 5.48mm for 10 min sample, it is deduced that the thickness increases rather linearly with the plating time For the sample after 10 min of plating, a resistivity of about 75.9mUcm was obtained from the sheet resistance measurement This is one order
of magnitude higher than the resistivity of the bulk nickel material, which is about 6.93mUcm In addition,Fig 4shows the EDS spectra
of these two samples There are only peaks characterizing nickel and phosphorus, giving an estimated value of nickel concentration higher than 90% for both samples By comparing with the literature, the value of resistivity and the concentration of phosphorus ob-tained in this study are in good agreement[23]
Fig 4 EDS spectra of electroless nickel film on aluminum thin film after 5 min and
10 min of plating.
Fig 5 Simplified monolithic MEMS and IC integration using MEMS-last processing via layer deposition and surface micromachining: (a) starting CMOS wafer with aluminum pads, (b) masking for selected areas on aluminum pads, (c) electroless nickel plating on selected areas, (d) supporting layer deposition, (e) LWIR sensing layer deposition, (f) contact deposition, (g) encapsulation layer deposition and (h) masking layer removal.
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Trang 54 Selected-area growth of nickel micropillars
In order to show how electroless plating of nickel plays a central
role in micromachining microbolometers for LWIR detection,Fig 5
shows our simplified fabrication process of a monolithic MEMS and
IC integration Starting from a CMOS wafer with aluminum pads for
the connection with underneath circuits, onFig 5a, a masking layer
was coated, on Fig 5b The structure of the masking layer was
patterned by a conventional photolithography by using AZ5214e
photoresist This layer plays not only the role of defining the
openings for subsequent electroless nickel plating, described by
Fig 5c, but also a sacrificial layer, which will be stripped off at the
final step, described by Fig 5h All other layers for supporting,
sensing, contacting and encapsulating are deposited upon the
sacrificial layer and nickel micropillars, described byFig 5deg The
height of the masking layer will define therefore the height of
suspending microbolometers for absorbing LWIR radiation For the
sacrificial layer should be around 2.5mm in order to have an effect
of destructive reflection of incoming radiation
It is true that the selected-area growth of micropillars by
elec-troless nickel plating is a crucial step of our microbolometers
fabrication processflow Since the openings height of the masking
layer is about 2.5 mm, and thicknesses of other layers (such as
supporting, sensing, contacting and encapsulating) are about
100 nm, withoutfilling the openings it is quite difficult to
micro-machine the suspending structure of microbolometers Nickel
micropillars not onlyfill the openings for preparing a planar surface,
but also electrically conducting and mechanically supporting col-umns for the suspending structure The electroless plating tech-nique gives a simplefilling method and may not need a subsequent surface planarization step if the growth were well controlled
Figs 6a and b shows optical images of different opening size of about 11mm, and 6 mm, respectively, after the photolithography patterning step.Figs 6c and d show the corresponding micro-sized electroless plated nickel micropillars after removing the masking photoresist layer;Figs 6e and f are the corresponding zoomed SEM micrographs It can be seen easily that nickel micropillars were grown at intentionally selected areas on aluminum thinfilms The lateral sizes of nickel micropillars are similar to that of openings There will be little optimization for obtaining good shapes of micropillars OnFig 6c and d, the superposed features are images taken on our LWIR sensing multilayer, patterned by photolithog-raphy, for illustrating how microbolometers will be fabricated upon nickel micropillars.Fig 7shows in addition the EDS spectrum taken
on a selected nickel micropillar with a lateral size of 11mm It is similar to the spectra taken on electroless plated nickel on bulk and aluminum surface showed onFigs 1 and 4, respectively We can observe also that there are only Ni and P peaks, giving an estimated
Ni concentration of 93% The value of P concentration in the plated
Ni in our samples, about 7%, is ranged as middle impurity concen-tration In this paper, we focused on electrical properties of plated
Ni layers, the structure of Ni-P was not fully characterized It was reported that Ni and P formed compounds such as Ni5P2, Ni3P in the plated Ni layer[26] In order to reduce the impurity to the low level
Fig 6 Optical images of photoresist openings for selected-area electroless plating of nickel (a) 11mm sized features (b) 6mm sized features SEM images of nickel micropillars with the size of (c) and (e) 11mm, (d) and (f) 6mm The superposed images of (c) and (d) demonstrate how microbolometer are deposited upon nickel micropillars.
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reported that the main source of P incorporation into the plated Ni
was hypophosphorous acid H3PO2 and hydrogen radicals in the
bath Thus reducing the concentration of H3PO2and maintaining
high pH level are the crucial elements for lowering the phosphorus
concentration In our devices, the P concentration in Ni micropillars
may lead to the diffusion of P into the CMOS substrates in future
devices The fabrication of nickel micropillars are considered as a
post-CMOS surface micromachining step Fortunately, transistors
are protected by insulator layers deposited during the
intercon-nection back end of line steps So phosphorus residual in
micro-pillars would not have high impact on the device performance
Nevertheless, more complexing agents such as malic acid and
succinic acid will be used for the future optimization of the bath
composition
For controlling the height of nickel micropillars, a systematic
series of electroless plating experiments with different plating time
micropillars height and the plating time For our optimum“bath
with additives” composition, the deduced deposition rate is about
0.41mm/min As a consequence, in order to grow micropillars of
2.5mm of height, 6 min of plating time is enough The deposition
rate could be decreased by diluting the nickel source, NiCl2, and the
reducing agent, NaH2PO2, but longer time in plating bath would
give some unwanted damage on the surface of device For future
optimization of growing micropillars by electroless plating,
sur-factants for enhancing the wettability and for smoothing the plated
Ni surface, such as sodium dodecyl sulphate or cetyltrimethyl
concentration in order to avoid the organic contamination in the plating bath
5 Conclusion
We have presented an electroless nickel plating process for applying in surface micromachining of microbolometers upon an IC substrate The optimization of Ni-P containing bath composition was carried out on bulk aluminum samples The optimum plating bath was successfully applied on sputtered aluminum thinfilms by reducing the zincating time from 15 s to 5 s A resistivity of 75.9 mUcm was obtained for electroless plated nickel film on a
200 nm of thickness aluminum thinfilm for 10 min of plating time Selected-area growth of nickel micropillars was performed by using the optimum electroless plating process The lateral size of these micropillars was in a good agreement with the opening size, about
6mm and 11mm The height of micropillars was well controlled by adjusting the plating time For our optimum bath composition, a growth rate of 0.41mm/min was obtained, thus giving a way to control the height of micropillars for assuring the planarized sur-face before other subsequent sursur-face micromachining steps This study thus opens a potential perspective in fabricating micro-bolometers for LWIR imaging
Acknowledgments
NAFOSTED under Project No 103.02-2015.79“Fabrication of micro sized coolers based on thermoelectric effect” The authors would like to thank the Vietnam National University Hanoi for research
Application in Medical, Pharmaceutical, Food, Biology, Environ-mental protection and Climate Change adaptation in the direction
of sustainable development”
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