Invention Application
- Patent Title: RADICAL-COMPONENT OXIDE ETCH
- Patent Title (中): 放射性组分氧化物蚀刻
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Application No.: US13834611Application Date: 2013-03-15
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Publication No.: US20140080308A1Publication Date: 2014-03-20
- Inventor: Zhijun Chen , Jingchun Zhang , Ching-Mei Hsu , Seung Park , Anchuan Wang , Nitin K. Ingle
- Applicant: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Main IPC: H01L21/311
- IPC: H01L21/311

Abstract:
A method of etching exposed silicon oxide on patterned heterogeneous structures is described and includes a remote plasma etch formed from a fluorine-containing precursor. Plasma effluents from the remote plasma are flowed into a substrate processing region where the plasma effluents combine with a nitrogen-and-hydrogen-containing precursor. Reactants thereby produced etch the patterned heterogeneous structures with high silicon oxide selectivity while the substrate is at high temperature compared to typical Siconi™ processes. The etch proceeds without producing residue on the substrate surface. The methods may be used to remove silicon oxide while removing little or no silicon, polysilicon, silicon nitride or titanium nitride.
Public/Granted literature
- US09023734B2 Radical-component oxide etch Public/Granted day:2015-05-05
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