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FOR 365:  Particle Beam Stimulated Ultra-Precision Surface Processing

Subject Area Computer Science, Systems and Electrical Engineering
Term from 1999 to 2007
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5466172
 
Surface finishing requirements with respect to surface shape accuracies of better than 0.25 nm rms and micro-roughness lower than 0.2 nm rms for plane, spherical and future aspherical surfaces (e.g. for the optics for EUVL - extreme ultraviolet lithography) and for 3D-microstructures cannot be achieved by conventional mechanical and chemo-mechanical processing techniques alone. Therefore alternative techniques like ion beam and local plasma-(jet) technologies gain growing interest in surface processing with tolerances in the nanometer and sub-nanometer range for surface figuring, smoothing, 3D-micro-structure fabrication and ultra-smooth thin films. Thereare strong international R&D efforts to develop technologies mature for industrial applications. In Germany the BMBF is funding joint projects between industry, institutes and universities in the frame of the so called Centers of Competence in Nanotechnology, namely CC-UPOB (ultra-precision processing) and CC-UFS (ultra-thin functional layers). The timeline for the nanometer tolerance technology development is very demanding, resulting in the as early as possible practical exploitation of the technical achievements of the technologies, the new equipment or products often at a time when the knowledge of basic phenomena of those techniques is incomplete or even unclear with the consequence of insufficient basic knowledge forfurther developments or technology improvements, respectively. The research unit 365 contributes on the one hand to reduce the deficit in basic knowledge especially in the field of already existing or to aim at industrial exploitations of low energy ion beam and plasma jet technologies for local large area precision surface shaping and smoothing, for material deposition for optoelectronic emitting elements and for a better parameterization of the ion beam sources as the main tools for this kind of technology. On the other hand the research group performs targeted research for new applications of surface processing by low energy ion beam and plasma jet material removal and deposition for 3D-micro-structure fabrication usingreplica techniques with the imprint technology and for ion beam assisted wafer direct bonding of III-V compounds.
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