Despite several competing technologies for Augmented Reality (AR) displays, surface relief gratings are amongst the most promising solutions. While Reactive Ion Etching (RIE), failed to produce slanted trenches due to the lack of directional control, Reactive Ion Beam Etching (RIBE) is a technique well suited to fabricate theses gratings via a combination of physical and chemical etching processes and substrate tilting. Along with several advantages of RIBE over RIE, such as enhanced control of the slant angle, achieving full wafer etching with superior uniformity for static, off-normal incidence process conditions have remained a challenge. Veeco’s latest generation IBE source technology with multi-zone electromagnets is a proven solution to fabricate highly uniform blanket and patterned 200 mm wafers under static, off-angle conditions. Combining this technology with RIBE/IBE, we have created uniform off-angle featured wafers such as slanted gratings with different slanted angles (0-60˚) which is a critical approach in the AR applications.
The field of ultraviolet (UV)-laser applications is currently experiencing rapid growth in the semiconductor processing, laser micromachining and biomedical markets. A key enabler for these technologies are optical coatings used to manipulate and direct laser beams in a targeted manner. As laser power, laser fluence and pulse frequencies increase, the demands on the physical properties of the coating materials become more stringent. We demonstrate how ion beam sputtering and post-deposition heat treatment are utilized to produce low loss optical coatings at 355 nm and 266 nm. The importance of precisely controlling the sputtering conditions for individual materials is highlighted and the influence of different process parameters on the resulting material properties is discussed. The effect of annealing on key performance parameters for optical coatings such as absorption, stress, roughness, and film structure is investigated. The low absorption achieved in this work results in high laser induced damage thresholds (LIDT) exceeding 2.5 J/cm2 and 6.5 J/cm2 for highly reflective (HR) mirrors and 7.6 J/cm2 and 15.7 J/cm2 for antireflective coatings at 266 nm and 355 nm, respectively.
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