Stealth dicing of sapphire wafers with near infra-red femtosecond pulses

Amit Yadav; Hani Kbashi; Stanislav Kolpakov; Neil Gordon; Kaiming Zhou; Edik U. Rafailov

doi:10.1007/s00339-017-0927-0

Stealth dicing of sapphire wafers with near infra-red femtosecond pulses

Amit Yadav^*, Hani Kbashi, Stanislav Kolpakov, Neil Gordon, Kaiming Zhou, Edik U. Rafailov

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The quality of the reflecting faces after dicing is critical for the fabrication of efficient and stable laser diodes emitting in the green–violet region. However, high-quality faces can be difficult to achieve for devices grown on a sapphire substrate as this material is difficult to cleave cleanly. We have therefore investigated a technology known as “stealth dicing”. The technology uses a pulsed laser to damage a plane of material inside of the wafer due to multi-photon absorption instead of cutting through the wafer surface. If the damage is induced in a line of stress points, the sample can then be cleaved easily along the damaged plane to leave a high-quality surface. The use of this technique also reduces thermal damage and debris.

Original language	English
Article number	369
Number of pages	7
Journal	Applied Physics A
Volume	123
Issue number	5
Early online date	25 Apr 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-017-0927-0
Publication status	Published - May 2017

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