Aluminum

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Aluminum is a metal that is a silvery-white, soft, non-magnetic and ductile in the boron group.

Aluminum
Material Details
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Applications

• Discuss common uses/applications for this material. Why this materials is used in the LNF?

Processing Tools

Process technologies that can be used to deposit/pattern this material. If this is a substrate, refer to what tool/process restrictions there may be and possibly remove the following sub-sections.

Deposition Equipment

• Lab 18-2
• Enerjet Evaporator
• Angstrom Engineering Evovac Evaporator
• PVD 75 Proline

Etching Equipment

• Acid Bench 12 - maintained tank
• Acid Bench 73 - Beaker
• Acid Bench 82 - Beaker

Processes

E-beam evaporation

Sputter deposition

• Lab 18-1
• Lab 18-2
• PVD 75

Etch Processes

Wet etching

Wet etching can be used to etch aluminum using Aluminum Etch

• Acid Bench 12
• Acid Bench 73

References

• Etch rates for micromachining processing https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/546406
• Etch rates for micromachining processing-Part II https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/1257354