摘要:
A mineral material layer and a photoresist polymer material layer are successively formed on a polymer material (6) supported by a substrate (5). The photoresist polymer material layer is patterned by way of lithography, and the pattern thus defined is transferred to the mineral material layer in order to form a hard mask (7a). The polymer material (6) is then dry etched using a plasma generated from a gas mixture comprising sulphur dioxide (SO 2 ), oxygen (O 2 ) and argon (Ar). The use of sulphur dioxide enables to carry out anisotropic etching in the polymer material (6). Further a good etching selectivity can be achieved thanks to the hard mask (7a).
摘要:
The purpose of the present invention is related to a method for removing organic contamination from a substrate. Said substrate can be a semiconductor surface. Said method can be applied for the removal of photoresist and organic post-etch residues from silicon surfaces. Said organic contamination can be a confined layer covering at least part of said substrate. Said confined layer can have a thickness in a range of submonolayer coverage to 1 µm. Said method is applicable for either gasphase or liquid processes.
摘要:
It is an object of the present invention to provide a process for a fluorine containing carbon film (a CF film), which can put an interlayer insulator film of a fluorine containing carbon film into practice. A conductive film, e.g., a TiN film 41, is formed on a CF film 4. After a pattern of a resist film 42 is formed thereon, the TiN film 41 is etched with, e.g., BCl 3 gas. Thereafter, when the surface of the wafer is irradiated with O 2 plasma, the CF film is chemically etched, and the resist film 42 is also etched. However, since the TiN film 41 functions as a mask, a predetermined hole can be formed. Although an interconnection layer of aluminum or the like is formed on the surface of the CF film 4, the TiN film 41 functions as an adhesion layer for adhering the interconnection layer to the CF film 4 and serves as a part of the interconnection layer. As the mask, an insulator film of SiO 2 or the like may be substituted for the conductive film.
摘要:
After an organic bottom anti-reflective coating (12) is deposited on an underlying film (11), a resist pattern (15) is formed on the organic bottom anti-reflective coating (12). Dry etching is performed with respect to the organic bottom anti-reflective coating (12) masked with the resist pattern (15) to form an anti-reflective coating pattern. The dry-etching of the organic bottom anti-reflective coating (12) is performed by using etching gas containing gas having the S component such as SO 2 /O 2 -based etching gas or COS/O 2 -based etching gas.
摘要:
The manufacture of ULSI devices such as 256 Megabit DRAMs is significantly improved by adding CO 2 to the oxide etch chemistry of CHF 3 and CF 4 . The carbon dioxide promotes polymerization near the edge of the plasma on large (300mm) wafers during formation of oxide posts 120 that are used in manufacturing DRAMs having storage cells of the "crown" cell type.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for preventing surface damage of an object being laser treated, comprising extending the laser pulse generated by a laser, before it reaches the surface to be ablated.
摘要:
A wafer (11) is conveyed in a vacuum from an Al etching chamber after the Al etching and is fed into an ashing chamber (15) without coming into contact with the atmosphere. After the wafer (11) was conveyed, CH 3 OH gas of 200 sccm is first introduced by a valve (30a) and a pressure is adjusted to 1.2 Torr. Subsequently, a microwave current of 450 mA is supplied, thereby forming a plasma. The wafer (11) is processed by a down-flow system of a CH 3 OH plasma. The supply of the CH 3 OH gas is stopped by closing the valve (30a). Next, oxygen gas of 400 sccm is introduced by opening a valve (30b). A microwave current of 450 mA is supplied at a pressure of 1.2 Torr, thereby forming a plasma. A resist on the wafer 11 is ashed and eliminated by a down-flow process of an oxygen plasma. By those processes, the corrosion prevention and the resist ashing can be perfectly executed.
摘要:
This invention encompasses using anisotropic plasma at a low temperature to strip resist from a semiconductor wafer. A semiconductor wafer 10 is placed in a reactor 26 which contains an oxygen plasma source 28 . The oxygen plasma source 28 emits oxygen plasma 32 which is drawn towards the biased wafer 10 , exposing the resist layer 22 of the wafer to anisotropic oxygen plasma. A sensor 30 detects when the ashing of the resist is complete, and then the plasma source is turned off. Advantages of the invention include the ability to remove resist from wafers without damaging polymeric dielectric layers, which are sensitive to the harsh effects of traditional resist removal methods. With the present invention, very little damage occurs to the material on the sidewalls of vias.
摘要:
An etch stop layer of chromium (24) is initially deposited on the circuit elements of the CMOS silicon substrate. Next, a conductive layer of tungsten (26) is non-selectively deposited on the chromium layer (24). A photoresist mask (28) is then lithographically patterned over the tungsten layer (26). The tungsten layer (26) is then etched down to, and stopping at, the chromium layer (24), after which the photoresist mask (28) is stripped. The stripping preferably uses a low temperature plasma etch in O₂ at a temperature of less than 100°C. Finally, a directional O₂ reactive ion etch is used to remove the chromium layer (24) selectively to the silicon substrate.
摘要:
A differentiable ablation approach to patterning dielectrics which are not of the same absorbance uses an absorbant dielectric (20) at a specified laser wavelength over a non-absorbant dielectric (18) at that wavelength. The absorbant dielectric may be laser-patterned and become an integral mask enabling plasma etching of the underlying non-absorbant dielectric. If the patterning of the absorbant dielectric involves vias, polymer ridges formed around via surfaces during laser patterning may be removed at the same time the underlying non-absorbant dielectric is etched using a transparent, oxygen plasma resistant mask. Alternatively, an inert mask may be used instead of the absorbent dielectric to allow plasma etching of the non-absorbant dielectric.