Method of surface treatment on sapphire substrate

Sapphire single crystals are widely used in many areas because of the special physic properties and important application value. As an important substrate material, stringent surface quality requirements, i.e. surface finish and flatness, are required. The use of CMP technique can produce high quality surface finishes at low cost and with fast material removal rates. The sapphire substrate surface is treated by using CMP method. According to sapphire substrate and its product properties, SiO2 sol is chosen as abrasive. The particle size is 15-25 nm and the concentration is 40%. According to the experiment results, pH value is 10.5-11.5. After polishing and cleaning the sapphire surface, the surface roughness was measured by using AFM method and the lowest value of Ra 0.1 nm was obtained. From the results, it can be seen that using such method, the optimal sapphire surface can be gotten, which is advantageous for epitaxial growth and device making-up.