Abstract:Silicon wafer direct bonding using oxygen plasma treatment is a novel low temperature silicon direct bonding technology. To optimize the process and obtain high quality bonding wafers, orthogonal experiments were performed to investigate the influences of three principal processing parameters, namely activation time of oxygen plasma, activated power and oxygen flow on wafer bonding, and the ratio of bonded area to total silicon area was used to evaluate the bonding quality. The results prove that the activated power affects the bonding ratio most, the oxygen flow takes the second place, and the activated time affects the bonding ratio least. Thus, it is needed to pay more attention on the activated power and oxygen flow in the process.