Abstract:Crack-free homogeneous nanoporous silica films on silicon wafers has been synthesized via a supercritical drying of wet gel films that were obtained by spinning coating the polymeric silica sol using acid/base two step sol-gel method with tetraethoxysilane(TEOS) as precursor. The nanoporous film is amorphous and three-dimensioned network, cross-linked by the primary particles which sizes distributed between 30~40nm showed by XRD and AFM. The thickness and refractive index of the silica films were measured by spectroscopic ellipsometry. The silica films' thickness is 300~1100nm, refractive index is 1.13~1.23, porosity is 50%~70% and dielectric constant is 1.9~2.4. The silica films' thickness increases as the solvent isopropanol (IPA) amount reduced, catalyst NH4OH amount increased, SiO2 sol viscosity increased and spin speed reduced. The films' dielectric constant loweres as NH4OH amount and SiO2 sol viscosity increases while IPA amount and spinning speed has little effect on the films' dielectric constant.