Hydrogen fluoride (HF) is also known as hydrofluoric acid, it is colorless transparent liquid with molecular weight of 20.01. HF smokes in the air and has pungent smell, it can react with general metal, metallic oxide and hydroxides generating varieties of salt. Hydrogen fluoride is highly corrosive and can corrode glass and silicates to form gaseous silicon tetrafluoride. Hydrogen fluoride has been widely used in electronic industry and other fields. Electronic grade hydrogen fluoride is mainly used as cleaning agent and etching agent and widely used in photovoltaic industry, integrated circuit, glass thinning and other industry, it is one of the key auxiliary materials. Its purity and cleanliness have an important impact on the yield, electrical performance and reliability of integrated circuit.
In manufacture of IC and VLSI, hydrogen fluoride is used for wafer surface cleaning, cleaning and corrosion of chip processing. In the glass thinning industry, hydrogen fluoride is used for liquid crystal display glass substrate cleaning, etch of silicon nitride and silicon dioxide, etc. Ultra-clean and high-pure hydrofluoric acid is a strong acid cleaning agent and corrosive agent, which can be used with nitric acid, glacial acetic acid, hydrogen peroxide, ammonium hydroxide, ammonium fluoride, etc., and can also be used as an analytical reagent and preparation of high-pure fluorine-containing chemicals.
Electronic grade hydrogen fluoride is filled in seamless steel cylinders with volumes of 44L, 47L and 440L, respectively. Specific packaging specifications can be customized according to user requirements. The packing materials are HDPE, PTFE, PFA and PTFE. Hydrogen fluoride is stored in a shady and ventilated storeroom away from fire and heat source, the temperature of storeroom is lower than 30℃. It should be separately stored with inflammable (combustible), edible chemicals. The storage area shall be equipped with equipment for emergency.