摘要:
Disclosed herein is a simulator including: an input section adapted to acquire processing conditions for a given process performed on a workpiece; and a damage calculation section adapted to acquire the damage of the workpiece, based on the processing conditions, by calculating, using a Flux method, the relationship between the amount of a first substance externally injected onto a given evaluation point on the workpiece during the given process and the amount of a second substance released from the given evaluation point on the workpiece as a result of the injection of the first substance.
摘要:
Disclosed herein is a semiconductor manufacturing device including, a chamber, a sensor, a sticking probability calculating section, an acting section, and a control section.
摘要:
A method in which in case different kinds of processing are consecutively conducted in a single chamber of a plasma device, a residual portion of a processing gas used in one process is prevented from affecting a next process, is disclosed. A chemical species resulting from the processing gas in one process is prevented from being generated in forming a plasma in the next processing, by introducing an inactive gas after the processing gas used in one processing is exhausted once, or by introducing the inactive gas while exhausting the processing gas, or by cyclically repeating exhaust of the processing gas and introduction of the inactive gas, prior to the next process. The degree of exhaust may be monitored on the basis of an emission spectrum of the plasma. If the exhaust is carried out between a dry etching process conducted while holding a substrate on a single electrode electrostatic chuck and a process of removing residual charge of the chuck in a state of non-bias application to the substrate, or between a just etching process and an over etching process, deterioration of an etching shape due to radicals in the plasma may be prevented.
摘要:
An improved method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming an insulating layer on a substrate, depositing a metal film layer on the insulating layer and depositing a photoresist layer on the metal film layer. The photoresist layer is formed with openings through which a predetermined surface of the metal film layer is exposed. The predetermined surface of the metal film layer is subjected to dry etching so that an underlying portion of the insulating layer is exposed. The remaining portion of the photoresist layer is then subjected to ashing by using an isopropyl alcohol-containing gas to expose the surface of said metal film layer.
摘要:
A method for anisotropic etching of a layer of a silicon-based material, using an SF.sub.6 gas, a versatile etching gas, is proposed. Sulfur (S) is used as a sidewall protection substance. This sulfur is not supplied into an etching reaction system on discharge dissociation of the etching gas, but is supplied by being sublimed off on heating from the inner wall surface of the etching chamber on which it is previously grown from a gaseous phase. Specifically, the S.sub.2 F.sub.2 gas is introduced while a predetermined region of the inner wall surface of the etching chamber is cooled, and preliminary discharge is carried out to deposit sulfur on the region. A SF.sub.6 containing etching gas is introduced into the chamber and the above mentioned region is heated for subliming S and simultaneously etching the layer of the silicon-based material. With this method, there is no necessity of using a specific etching gas capable of yielding free S in the plasma under discharge dissociating conditions. The present invention has an important significance as post-CFC (chlorofluorocarbon) gas measures. After end of etching, sulfur may be easily sublimed off by heating the wafer without the risk of pollution by particles.
摘要:
Disclosed herein is a shape simulation apparatus including: a flux computation block configured to compute the flux of particles incident on the surface of a wafer covered with a mask; and a shape computation block configured to compute a surface shape of the wafer by allowing the coordinates of a plurality of calculation points established on the surface of the wafer to be time-evolved based on the incident flux computed.
摘要:
Disclosed herein is a simulator including: an input section adapted to acquire processing conditions for a given process performed on a workpiece; and a damage calculation section adapted to acquire the damage of the workpiece, based on the processing conditions, by calculating, using a Flux method, the relationship between the amount of a first substance externally injected onto a given evaluation point on the workpiece during the given process and the amount of a second substance released from the given evaluation point on the workpiece as a result of the injection of the first substance.
摘要:
Provision of a process capable of preferably etching particularly PtMn used for a pin layer of an MRAM is an object: a dry etching method for performing dry etching on a layer including platinum and/or manganese by using pulse plasma and a production method of an MRAM, wherein the dry etching method is applied to processing of the pin layer. The MRAM is configured to have a memory portion comprising a magnetic memory element composed of tunnel magnetoresistive effect element formed by stacking a magnetic fixed layer having a fixed magnetization direction, a tunnel barrier layer and a magnetic layer capable of changing the magnetization direction.
摘要:
A dry etching equipment includes a topography simulator and a control section. The topography simulator controls an amount of deposition species incident upon a sidewall to be processed in accordance with a wafer opening ratio and a solid angle of a local pattern, the deposition amount being represented by a product of a reaction product flux and the solid angle. The control section compares a database obtained by the topography simulator with an actual measured value detected from an etching condition during dry etching to calculate a correction value for etching process, and indicates the correction value to an etching chamber in the dry etching equipment. The dry etching equipment corrects in real time a parameter for the etching process conducted in the etching chamber.
摘要:
Disclosed is a plasma monitoring method for detecting the amount of atomic radicals generated by dissociation of a molecular raw material gas during a plasma processing conducted by introducing the molecular raw material gas and a rare gas into a process atmosphere, wherein the amount of the atomic radicals is predicted from the dissociation degree of the molecular raw material gas determined from the partial pressure of the molecular raw material gas in the process atmosphere, the luminous intensity of the rare gas, and the partial pressure of the rare gas in the process atmosphere, whereby the amount of the specific atomic radicals can be monitored easily and accurately.