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- the repetitive ion implantation polishing technique requires high ion energies (on the order of 100 keV) in order to achieve ion implantation in the diamond surface; this requirement contributes both to overall cost of the method and also raises potential safety issues. Because the synthetic diamond surface has various grain orientations, line-of-sight effects from the high-energy implantation can result in directional sputtering on the surface, thus hampering the production of a smooth surface. In addition, the ion implantation apparatus typically has a small beam spot and therefore, repeated scanning of the beam over the sample is necessary to achieve uniform ion-implantation across the surface of a large synthetic diamond.
- the present invention utilizes a chemical effect to polish the diamond surface, the energy of the atomic oxygen ions generated is much lower than the energy of ions generated during ion implantation techniques or similar high energy beam approaches. Accordingly, the atomic oxygen polishing plasma source disclosed herein can operate at lower voltages than the apparatus for ion-implantation, thereby reducing both capital investment and safety concerns. In addition, because the atomic oxygen polishing plasma source generates a large plume of plasma, large diamond samples can be polished in their entirety without beam scanning, and multiple samples can be polished simultaneously.
- FIG. 4 a is a plot of the fraction of atomic oxygen produced by the polishing source as a function of discharge voltage in an embodiment of the present invention without magnetic filtration;
- the apparatus may optionally also include a shield located between the cooling jacket 111 and the reaction chamber 107 made of an oxidant-resistant material such as molybdenum.
- An electron source 112 powered by an AC voltage source 114 , is inserted through the closed end 106 into the reaction chamber 107 of the plasma source 100 .
- the electron source 112 will be referred to as a filament.
- the filament electron source 112 and plasma source wall 104 are connected to a DC discharge power supply 118 located outside the plasma source.
- FIG. 4 c An overlay of the atomic oxygen fraction data with and without the magnetic filter 122 is provided in FIG. 4 c.
- the diamond points represent the non-filter points shown in FIG. 4 a, while the square points were taken at a pressure of 4 ⁇ 10 ⁇ 4 TORR and a discharge current of 40 Amps, while the triangle points were taken at a pressure of 4 ⁇ 10 ⁇ 4 TORR and a discharge current of 10 Amps.
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Abstract
An apparatus for the polishing of diamond surfaces, wherein the diamond surface is subjected to plasma-enhanced chemical etching using atomic oxygen polishing plasma source, is presented. In the apparatus, a magnetic filter passes a plume of high-density, low-energy, atomic oxygen plasma. The plasma is capable of uniformly polishing diamond surfaces utilizing low energy atomic oxygen ions to chemically etch a diamond surface at moderate temperatures.
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- This divisional application claims the benefit of priority to U.S. utility application No. 09/541,178, filed in the United States on Apr. 3, 2000, entitled “Method and Apparatus for Large-Scale Diamond Polishing.”
- This invention relates to an apparatus for diamond polishing. More specifically, it relates to the use of plasma-enhanced chemical etching techniques for polishing a synthetic diamond to an optical quality surface.
- Extreme hardness, high thermal and chemical stability, and optical transparency are properties that render diamonds desirable in numerous optical, electrical, and military applications. In order to overcome the rarity and cost of natural diamonds, synthetic methods of diamond preparation have been developed. Synthetic diamonds are efficiently and cost-effectively fabricated in the form of coatings using plasma-assisted (or plasma-enhanced) chemical vapor deposition (PACVD or PECVD) processes. As deposited, the diamond films are polycrystalline, typically possessing a roughness on the order of 10 to 20 micrometers. The rough surface negates the utility of synthetic diamonds in many applications, particularly optics. When the as-prepared synthetic diamonds are used as lens coatings, for example, their rough surfaces produce excessive scatter and thus, provide low transmittance. Costly labor-intensive polishing must be performed in order to achieve the required finish for this type of application. Mechanical polishing techniques utilizing diamond paste are typically performed, but because the synthetic diamonds have the same hardness as the diamond in the paste, polishing must be performed repetitively and for an extended period. As a result, the cost of polishing the synthetic diamond to optical quality exceeds the cost of depositing the diamond layer.
- To reduce the polishing time and cost, a repetitive ion-implantation mechanical polishing technique was designed and is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,154,023. When utilizing this technique, the rough diamond surface is first “softened” by the formation of an ion-implanted layer. This softened layer is subsequently subjected to mechanical polishing. The softening and polishing steps are repeated until a desired surface smoothness has been achieved. Each cycle of softening and polishing in this technique affects only a shallow surface layer (on the order of 0.1 microns), so dozens of cycles are necessary to process a typical synthetic diamond to optical quality. The repetitive ion implantation polishing technique requires high ion energies (on the order of 100 keV) in order to achieve ion implantation in the diamond surface; this requirement contributes both to overall cost of the method and also raises potential safety issues. Because the synthetic diamond surface has various grain orientations, line-of-sight effects from the high-energy implantation can result in directional sputtering on the surface, thus hampering the production of a smooth surface. In addition, the ion implantation apparatus typically has a small beam spot and therefore, repeated scanning of the beam over the sample is necessary to achieve uniform ion-implantation across the surface of a large synthetic diamond.
- Synthetic diamond films and wafers have been used in various microelectronic applications, such as heat sinks or substrates for semiconductor devices. In these applications, it is often desirable to impart a specific architecture on the surface of the diamond. Oxygen plasma, coupled with pattern masking, has been utilized to selectively etch synthetic diamond wafers. Typically, the masked wafer is etched in a low-pressure oxygen gas reactor, using electromagnetic radiation to generate an oxygen plasma. Under these conditions, etching of the diamond wafer is rapid compared to conventional mechanical polishing techniques. However, under these conditions, the etching of the wafer is anisotropic, most likely due to physical bombardment by high-energy molecular oxygen ions, so polishing to optical quality smoothness is not feasible.
- One object of the present invention is to overcome the disadvantages of the processes described above by providing an apparatus for rapid, uniform, and cost-effective synthetic diamond polishing. More specifically, one embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus for effectively polishing a synthetically produced diamond by plasma-enhanced chemical etching using an atomic oxygen polishing plasma source, said source generating high concentrations of low energy atomic oxygen ions over a large surface area. The present invention takes advantage of the ability of low energy atomic oxygen ions to chemically etch a diamond surface at moderate temperatures. Because the atomic oxygen ions have low energy and high density, they conform to the surface of the synthetic diamond sample, and thus polish the sample with increased uniformity versus known oxygen etching techniques. The rate of polishing is proportional to the density of atomic oxygen, and, in the present invention, this density can be easily controlled by adjusting parameters such as gas pressure, discharge voltage, and plasma ion source power to minimize the processing time.
- Because the present invention utilizes a chemical effect to polish the diamond surface, the energy of the atomic oxygen ions generated is much lower than the energy of ions generated during ion implantation techniques or similar high energy beam approaches. Accordingly, the atomic oxygen polishing plasma source disclosed herein can operate at lower voltages than the apparatus for ion-implantation, thereby reducing both capital investment and safety concerns. In addition, because the atomic oxygen polishing plasma source generates a large plume of plasma, large diamond samples can be polished in their entirety without beam scanning, and multiple samples can be polished simultaneously.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic representation of the atomic oxygen polishing plasma source of the present invention;
- FIG. 2 is a schematic representation of the plasma composition in the different regions of the atomic oxygen polishing plasma source and vacuum chamber of the present invention;
- FIG. 3 is a plot of the atomic oxygen fraction as a function of vacuum chamber pressure at two different discharge voltages in the atomic oxygen polishing plasma source of the present invention;
- FIG. 4a is a plot of the fraction of atomic oxygen produced by the polishing source as a function of discharge voltage in an embodiment of the present invention without magnetic filtration;
- FIG. 4b is a plot of the fraction of atomic oxygen produced by the polishing source as a function of discharge voltage in an embodiment of the present invention having magnetic filtration;
- FIG. 4c is an overlay of FIG. 4a and FIG. 4b illustrating the contrast between atomic oxygen concentrations in embodiments of the present invention with and without magnetic filtration; and
- FIG. 5 is a schematic representation of the chemical etching of a diamond surface by atomic oxygen in accordance with the present invention.
- The present invention is useful for providing an apparatus for large scale diamond polishing. The following description is presented to enable one of ordinary skill in the art to make and use the invention, which may be incorporated in the context of a variety of applications. Various modifications to the preferred embodiment, as well as a variety of uses in different applications will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art. Notably, the general principles defined herein may be applied to other embodiments; thus, the present invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown, but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein.
- A schematic of the preferred embodiment of the atomic oxygen polishing plasma source of the present invention is outlined in FIG. 1. The atomic oxygen
polishing plasma source 100 is a hollow body, which may be cylindrical, having one open end, henceforth referred to as theplasma source exit 102, awall 104, a closedend 106, and aninterior region 107 a which forms areaction chamber 107. Thewall 104 and the closedend 106 of theplasma source 100 include a cylindrical array ofconfinement magnets 108 that are held by their own magnetic fields to theinside surface 110 a of ametal cylinder 110 made of a magnetic material such as low carbon steel. Acooling jacket 111 made of a non-magnetic material such as stainless steel completely encases the cylindrical array ofconfinement magnets 108. The apparatus may optionally also include a shield located between thecooling jacket 111 and thereaction chamber 107 made of an oxidant-resistant material such as molybdenum. Anelectron source 112, powered by anAC voltage source 114, is inserted through the closedend 106 into thereaction chamber 107 of theplasma source 100. For the purposes of clarity, theelectron source 112 will be referred to as a filament. However, it will be obvious to one skilled in the art that other electron sources would be suitable in other embodiments. In addition, thefilament electron source 112 andplasma source wall 104 are connected to a DCdischarge power supply 118 located outside the plasma source. The plasma source is also equipped with a leak valve orgas port 120 at theclosed end 106. A planar array offiltration magnets 122 is located within the plasmasource reaction chamber 107, aligned parallel to theplasma source exit 102. A planartransparent electrode grid 126 covers theplasma source exit 102. The diamond sample, or samples, ofinterest 130 are placed beyond theplasma source exit 102. - In the preferred embodiment, the atomic oxygen polishing plasma source is positioned inside an evacuated vacuum chamber200 (shown in FIG. 2). Oxygen gas is introduced into the
plasma source 100 through thegas port 120. The final pressure is selected to maximize the atomic oxygen fraction. The pressure in thereaction chamber 107 is the equilibrium pressure created from the flow between the oxygen leak valve, any gaseous reaction products and the vacuum chamber pump. In one embodiment of the present invention a final vacuum chamber pressure of about 10−5 to 10−3 Torr provided good results. Theelectron source filament 112, which in the preferred embodiment is made of tungsten, tantalum, or iridium, is heated to thermionic temperatures, at which point electrons ranging in energy from approximately 10 to 100 eV are emitted from thefilament 112. The emitted electrons are the primary electrons. When a DC bias voltage from theDC power supply 118 is applied between thefilament 112 and theplasma source wall 104, the primary electrons emitted by the filament are accelerated to theplasma source wall 104. On their way through the plasmasource reaction chamber 107, the primary electrons collide with the introduced oxygen molecules, producing primarily molecular oxygen ion plasma and secondary electrons ranging in energy from approximately 0 to 3 eV. During the plasma creation process, the coolingjacket 111 cools theplasma source 100 in order to prevent heating of theconfinement magnets 108 andfiltration magnets 122 and other potentially destabilizing effects. - The resultant plasma is comprised of molecular and atomic oxygen species, both neutral and ionic, and free electrons. An illustration of the plasma composition is presented in FIG. 2. Magnetic filtration is used to increase the fraction of atomic ions present in the plasma as follows: The
magnetic filter 122 creates a transverse magnetic field in thereaction chamber 107 that prevents the high-energy electrons involved in plasma formation from exiting theplasma source 100. However, low energy electrons and positive ions can penetrate thefilter 122 through a collision diffusion mechanism. In theregion 202 downstream of thefilter 122, the low energy electrons aid in the dissociation of the molecular oxygen ions into atomic ions before the plasma leaves theplasma source 100 as aplume 204 on its way to the diamond surface(s) 130. Dissociation of molecular oxygen ions to atomic ions in thedownstream region 202 is dependent on the gas pressure in thevacuum chamber 200. - In the preferred embodiment, the plume of
plasma 204 generated by the atomic oxygen polishingplasma source 100 is of largely uniform density over approximately 12 cm in diameter at theplasma source exit 102, and broadens with increasing distance from theplasma source exit 102. Thus, with appropriate positioning from theplasma source exit 102, the diamond surface(s) 130 may be completely covered by the atomicoxygen plasma plume 204. Furthermore, because the atomic oxygen ions simply diffuse from theplasma source 100, the energies of these ions are largely dependent on collision effects, which are controlled primarily by gas diffusion and pressure gradients. As a result, the atomic ions in theplasma plume 204 have energies less than about 100 eV, rendering them well-suited to chemically etch adiamond sample 130. - The effect of gas pressure on the fraction of atomic oxygen is shown in FIG. 3. The effect of magnetic filtration on the fraction of atomic oxygen present in the plasma in the preferred embodiment is illustrated graphically in FIG. 4. As shown in FIG. 4a, the fraction of atomic oxygen in this embodiment is on the order of 0.28. The data points in FIG. 4a were taken at a pressure of 2×10−4 TORR and at a discharge current of 10 Amps. However, as shown in FIG. 4b, the addition of the
magnetic filter 122 increases the fraction of atomic oxygen to at least 0.7 and in some cases to over 0.94. In FIG. 4b the diamond points were taken at a pressure of 4×10−4 TORR and a discharge current of 40 Amps, while the square points were taken at a pressure of 4×10−4 TORR and a discharge current of 10 Amps. An overlay of the atomic oxygen fraction data with and without themagnetic filter 122 is provided in FIG. 4c. In FIG. 4c, the diamond points represent the non-filter points shown in FIG. 4a, while the square points were taken at a pressure of 4×10−4 TORR and a discharge current of 40 Amps, while the triangle points were taken at a pressure of 4×10−4 TORR and a discharge current of 10 Amps. - The present invention takes advantage of the ability of atomic oxygen to oxidatively chemically etch diamond surfaces. A schematic of the etching mechanism at a
diamond surface 500 is provided in FIG. 5. By generating high-densityatomic oxygen plasma 502 with magnetic filtration, the atomic oxygen polishing plasma source 100 (shown in FIG. 1) provides for a rapid reaction rate between theatomic oxygen plasma 502 and thediamond surface 500. The density, and accordingly the reaction rate, in the preferred embodiment of the present invention can be easily controlled by adjusting the gas pressure, the applied discharge power to theplasma source 100, and the power to theelectron source 112. - Potential anisotropic effects in diamond polishing are further limited in the present invention by the selective generation of low energy
atomic oxygen plasma 502. Restricting the plasma flow to low energy species limits the physical bombardment of thediamond surface 500 by atomic or molecular oxygen ions, a process that results in directional, and accordingly non-uniform, etching of the diamond surface. Under low energy conditions, the primary etching effect on thediamond surface 500 is the non-directional chemical reaction ofatomic oxygen plasma 502 with thediamond surface 500. In addition, because the atomic oxygen polishing plasma source generateslow energy plasma 502, the safety hazards associated with high energy beams such as utilized in the ion-implantation technique described above are minimized. - Finally, as previously stated, because the diamond is treated in the present invention by a broad plume of plasma204 (shown in FIG. 2), it is possible to treat a single large sample in its entirety, or
several samples 130 simultaneously. The low-energy, high-density atomicoxygen plasma plume 204 diffusing from the source, while already non-directional in its effect, is applied to the entire sample uniformly to create a smooth, optical quality surface. Thus, the line-of-sight effects characteristic of beam polishing are effectively eliminated.
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1. An apparatus for polishing diamond surfaces by generating atomic oxygen ions in plasma form comprising:
a body having a chamber formed therein, the body having an open end and a power-source end, with the open end of the body forming a plasma source exit having an exit plane;
an array of confinement magnets encircling the body, whereby the body and the array of confinement magnets form a plasma generation reaction chamber;
an electron source filament connected to an AC power source located outside the body, said electron source filament being inserted into the plasma generation reaction chamber;
a gas port inserted through the power-source end of the body and into the plasma generation reaction chamber;
a DC power source located outside the body, and connected between the electron source filament and the body; and
an array of filtration magnets positioned near the plasma source exit, and parallel to the plasma source exit plane, said array of filtration magnets separating the reaction chamber into an upstream region containing the confinement magnets and a downstream region.
2. An apparatus for polishing diamond surfaces by generating atomic oxygen ions in plasma form as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the electron source filament is formed of a material selected from the group consisting of tungsten, tantalum, and iridium.
3. An apparatus for polishing diamond surfaces by generating atomic oxygen ions in plasma form as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the body is formed of low carbon steel.
4. An apparatus for polishing diamond surfaces as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the plasma is comprised of least 60% atomic oxygen ions.
5. An apparatus for polishing diamond surfaces as set forth in claim 1 , wherein a discharge voltage applied between the DC power source and the electron source filament is between 50 and 150 volts.
6. An apparatus for polishing diamond surfaces as set forth in claim 1 , wherein a pressure of oxygen gas introduced into the plasma generation reaction chamber is between 6.0×10−5 and 1.2×10−4 Torr.
7. An apparatus for polishing diamond surfaces by generating atomic oxygen ions in plasma form comprising
a magnetic cylinder having a cylindrical chamber formed therein and an open end and a power-source end, with the open end of the cylinder forming a plasma source exit having an exit plane;
a non-magnetic cooling jacket formed in a substantially annular and cylindrical shape positioned within the cylindrical chamber of the magnetic cylinder;
a substantially annular and cylindrical array of confinement magnets encased within said non-magnetic cooling jacket, whereby the magnetic cylinder and the array of confinement magnets form a plasma generation reaction chamber;
an electron source filament connected to an AC power source located outside the magnetic cylinder, said electron source filament being inserted through power-source end of the magnetic cylinder and into the plasma generation reaction chamber;
a gas port inserted through the power-source end of the magnetic cylinder and into the plasma generation reaction chamber;
a DC power source located outside the magnetic cylinder, and connected between the electron source filament and the magnetic cylinder; and
an array of filtration magnets positioned near the plasma source exit, and parallel to the plasma source exit plane, said array of filtration magnets separating the reaction chamber into an upstream region containing the confinement magnets and a downstream region.
8. An apparatus for polishing diamond surfaces by generating atomic oxygen ions in plasma form as set forth in claim 7 , wherein the electron source filament is formed of a material selected from the group consisting of tungsten, tantalum, and iridium.
9. An apparatus for polishing diamond surfaces by generating atomic oxygen ions in plasma form as set forth in claim 7 , wherein the magnetic cylinder is formed of low carbon steel.
10. An apparatus for polishing diamond surfaces by generating atomic oxygen ions in plasma form as set forth in claim 7 , wherein the non-magnetic cooling jacket is formed of stainless steel.
11. An apparatus for polishing diamond surfaces by generating atomic oxygen ions in plasma form for polishing diamond surfaces as set forth in claim 7 , further comprising a cylindrical molybdenum shield located between the non-magnetic cooling jacket and the plasma generation reaction chamber.
12. An apparatus for polishing diamond surfaces as set forth in claim 7 , wherein the plasma is comprised of least 60% atomic oxygen ions.
13. An apparatus for polishing diamond surfaces as set forth in claim 7 , wherein a discharge voltage applied between the DC power source and the electron source filament is between 50 and 150 volts.
14. An apparatus for polishing diamond surfaces as set forth in claim 7 , wherein a pressure of oxygen gas introduced into the plasma generation reaction chamber is between 6.0×10−5 and 1.2×10−4 Torr.
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