Invention Application
- Patent Title: ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION AND ETCH IN A SINGLE PLASMA CHAMBER FOR CRITICAL DIMENSION CONTROL
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Application No.: US15820108Application Date: 2017-11-21
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Publication No.: US20190157095A1Publication Date: 2019-05-23
- Inventor: Xiang Zhou , Yoshie Kimura , Duming Zhang , Chen Xu , Ganesh Upadhyaya , Mitchell Brooks
- Applicant: Lam Research Corporation
- Main IPC: H01L21/3065
- IPC: H01L21/3065 ; H01L21/02 ; H01L21/033 ; C23C16/455

Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses for critical dimension (CD) control of substrate features using integrated atomic layer deposition (ALD) and etch processes are described herein. Methods include etching to form a mask pattern of features on a substrate having a width that is less than a desired width of structures to be subsequently formed by the mask pattern of features, conformally depositing a passivation layer by ALD that increases the width of the mask pattern of features to the desired width, and etching a layer of the substrate to a desired depth to form the plurality of structures having the desired width.
Public/Granted literature
- US10734238B2 Atomic layer deposition and etch in a single plasma chamber for critical dimension control Public/Granted day:2020-08-04
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