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Journal of Mechanical Engineering ›› 2024, Vol. 60 ›› Issue (3): 337-353.doi: 10.3901/JME.2024.03.337

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A Review of High-efficiency and Ultra-low Damage Processing Mechanism and Technology of Diamond

YUAN Song, GUO Xiaoguang, JIN Zhuji, KANG Renke, GUO Dongming   

  1. State Key Laboratory of High-preformance Precision Manufacturing, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024
  • Received:2023-03-08 Revised:2023-08-13 Online:2024-02-05 Published:2024-04-28

Abstract: With the development of electronic devices towards high frequency, high voltage and high power, the higher requirements are put forward for the performance of semiconductor materials. Single crystal diamond has the characteristics of high thermal conductivity, high temperature resistance, ultra-wide band gap and high breakdown voltage, which is regarded as the ultimate semiconductor material. To give full play to the properties of diamond, the diamond need possess the surface morphology of super smooth and almost non-damaging. Nevertheless, diamond not only has the highest hardness, stable chemical properties and is difficult to remove, but also has great brittleness, low fracture toughness and easy to produce processing damage, which seriously restricts the development of diamond in the field of semiconductor. The processing mechanism and technology of diamond with high-efficiency and ultra-low damage have been studied by scholars at home and abroad. But up to now, there is no set of processing theory and technology suitable for diamond. On the basis of summarizing the processing methods with their advantages and disadvantages regarding diamond, the research status of diamond processing are summarized, the research progress on the mechanism of high-efficiency and ultra-low damage of diamond and related processes are summarized systematically from the aspects of experimental instrument detection and simulations and finally the current problems and future development trends of diamond regarding the high-efficiency and ultra-low damage processing are analyzed, which will provide guidance for the manufacturing technology and theory of diamond in the future. The analysis shows that, in terms of mechanism, the combination of experimental detection and simulation is an effective way to obtain more details of dynamic atoms, which is the development direction of elucidating processing mechanism at atomic scale in the future. As for processing technology, chemical mechanical polishing method can be used for the large size flat material processing, at the same time also can obtain the diamond surface with super smooth and low damage. Nonetheless, the low removal rate is to limit the bottleneck problems of the application of this method. The processing method consisting of diamond abrasive + strong oxidation agent + external energy field assist can be the development trends of the high-efficiency and ultra-low damage processing of diamond.

Key words: diamond, high-efficiency and ultra-low damage, semiconductor materials, processing and mechanism

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