PROCESS FOR FABRICATING AN OPTICAL DEVICE

• Main Authors: KOHL, PAUL ALBERT, OSTERMAYER, FREDERICK WILLIAM, JR, BURTON, RANDOLPH HENRY
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 14.12.1988
• Edition: 4
• Subjects: AFTER-TREATMENT OF SINGLE CRYSTALS OR A HOMOGENEOUSPOLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WITH DEFINED STRUCTURE; APPARATUS THEREFOR; BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTAL GROWTH; ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES; METALLURGY; OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS; OPTICS; PHYSICS; PROCESSES FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC REMOVAL OF MATERIALS FROMOBJECTS; PRODUCTION OF A HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WITHDEFINED STRUCTURE; REFINING BY ZONE-MELTING OF MATERIAL; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SINGLE CRYSTALS OR HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WITHDEFINED STRUCTURE; SINGLE-CRYSTAL-GROWTH; UNIDIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION OF EUTECTIC MATERIAL ORUNIDIRECTIONAL DEMIXING OF EUTECTOID MATERIAL

This invention is a process for fabricating optical devices by photoetching geometrical shapes on the surface of an n-type or intrinsic compound semiconductor so as to yield surfaces of optical quality without further processing. The etching process is an electrochemical process where etching is pro...