The invention relates to a reactive ion beam etching method of a large-size diffractive optical element and a vacuum etchingmachine. The method comprises the following steps: in a reactive ion beam main etching stage, a main ion source emits a high-energy main etching reactive ion beam to scan and etch the whole surface of the large-size diffractive optical element; in a selective area reaction ion beamashing stage, an auxiliary ion source is controlled to emit a low-energy ashing reaction ion beam, and scanning ashingprocessing is carried out on a central effective area of the large-size diffractive optical element; in the reaction ion beam edge removal stage, the auxiliary ion source is controlled to emit edge removal reaction ion beams with set process parameters, and edge thickening photoresist of the large-size diffractive optical element is removed; and taking out the large-size diffraction optical element finished product after etching is completed. According to the technical scheme, the production cost of reactive ion beam etching of the large-size diffractive optical element can be reduced, and the production efficiency can be improved.
The application provides a piezoelectric MEMShydrophone based on a bionic cochlea structure and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps: forming a blocking layer, a lower electrode layer, a piezoelectric layer and an upper electrode layer on a substrate, and forming a hard mask on the back of the substrate; performing photoetching on the upper electrode layer and then performing reactive ion beam etching to obtain a bionic cochleastructure pattern; performing photoetching and patterning on the piezoelectric layer to obtain a bionic cochleastructure pattern, and then etching to expose the lower electrode layer; forming a positive electrode and a negative electrode on the upper electrode layer; forming an etched hard mask; performing deep siliconetching steps on the back after photoetching and patterning to obtain a back bionic cochlea spiral cavity structure and in-situ arrayed cilia; etching and releasing the device; bonding the piezoelectric vector hydrophone with a PCB board, and wire-bonding the positive electrode and the negative electrode with the PCB board. The hydrophone has the characteristics of miniaturization, realizes wide-frequency underwatersound detection by using a bionic cochlea spiral diaphragm structure, and improves detection sensitivity by using in-situ integrated bionic cochlea cilia.
ActiveUS12692189B2NanoparticleReactive ion beam etching
A method of fabricating metamaterial structures without exceeding 30° C. or less in temperature comprises forming a metasurface mask by depositing a layer of nanoparticles on a surface of the substrate, etching the surface of the substrate with the nanoparticles thereon using reactive ion beam etching (RIBE), and removing at least a portion of the nanoparticles from the etched surface. Nanometer size surface features are thereby formed on the surface of a material without exceeding 30° C. in temperature, thereby forming metamaterial structures with a reduced incidence of thermal damage to the material.