摘要:
Methods for cleaning a substrate are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes depositing a polymer on a substrate. A cleaning gas is provided to clean a frontside, a bevel edge, and a backside of the substrate. The cleaning gas may include various reactive chemicals such as H2 and N2 in one embodiment. In another embodiment, the cleaning gas may include H2 and H2O. Plasma is initiated from the cleaning gas and used to remove polymer that formed on a bevel edge, backside, or frontside of the substrate during semiconductor processing.
摘要:
A method of opening a carbon-based hardmask layer composed of amorphous carbon containing preferably at least 60% carbon and between 10 and 40% hydrogen. The hardmask is opened by plasma etching using an etching gas composed of H2, N2, and CO. The etching is preferably performed in a plasma etch reactor having an HF biased pedestal electrode and a capacitively VHF biased showerhead.
摘要翻译:一种由优选含有至少60%的碳和10至40%氢气的无定形碳组成的碳基硬掩模层的方法。 使用由H 2 N 2 N 2 N 2和CO组成的蚀刻气体通过等离子体蚀刻来打开硬掩模。蚀刻优选在具有HF偏置的等离子体蚀刻反应器中进行 基座电极和电容VHF偏置花洒。
摘要:
The present invention provides a process for synthesizing one-dimensional nanosubstances. A membrane having channels serves as the host material for the synthesis. The anodic membrance is brought into contact with a microwave excited plasma of a precursor gas using an electron cyclotron resonance chemical vapor deposition (ECR-CVD) system. Parallel aligned nanosubstances can be synthesized in the channels of the membrane over a large area. Carbon nitride nanosubstances are synthesized successfully for the first time in the present invention.
摘要:
A method for etching wafers using advanced patterning film (APF) to reduce bowing and improve bottom-to-top ratios includes providing a wafer having an APF layer into a processing chamber, wherein the processing chamber is configured with a power source operating at about 162 MHz, supplying a process gas into the chamber, applying a source power using the 162 MHz power source, and applying a bias power to the wafer. The process gas comprises hydrogen gas (H2), nitrogen gas (N2), and carbon monoxide gas (CO). The ratio of H2:N2 is about 1:1. Additionally, the wafer temperature is adjusted to improve the etching characteristics.
摘要:
A method of opening a carbon-based hardmask layer composed of amorphous carbon containing preferably at least 60% carbon and between 10 and 40% hydrogen. The hardmask is opened by plasma etching using an etching gas composed of H2, N2, and CO. The etching is preferably performed in a plasma etch reactor having an HF biased pedestal electrode and a capacitively VHF biased showerhead.
摘要翻译:一种由优选含有至少60%的碳和10至40%氢气的无定形碳组成的碳基硬掩模层的方法。 使用由H 2 N 2 N 2 N 2和CO组成的蚀刻气体通过等离子体蚀刻来打开硬掩模。蚀刻优选在具有HF偏置的等离子体蚀刻反应器中进行 基座电极和电容VHF偏置花洒。
摘要:
A plasma-enhanced process is performed in a single plasma reactor chamber for etching a thin film layer on a workpiece, using a hard mask layer including an amorphous carbon layer (ACL) overlying the thin film layer and an anti-reflection coating (ARC) overlying the ACL. The process includes etching a pattern in the ARC in accordance with a photoresist mask overlying the ARC, using a plasma produced from a fluorine-containing process gas, and then removing fluorine-containing residue from the reactor chamber and/or workpiece by performing a first transition step by replacing the fluorine-containing process gas with an inert species process gas and maintaining a plasma in the reactor chamber. A pattern is then etched in the ACL using the ARC as an etch mask by replacing the argon process gas with a process gas containing hydrogen while maintaining a plasma in the chamber. Thereafter, hydrogen-containing residue is removed from the reactor and/or from the chamber by performing a flush step by replacing the hydrogen-containing process gas with argon gas and maintaining a plasma in the chamber. The process continues with etching a pattern in the thin film layer using the ACL as a hard mask by replacing the argon gas in the chamber with a species capable of etching the thin film layer.
摘要:
A plasma etch process for successively different layers, including an anti-reflection coating (ARC), an amorphous carbon layer (ACL) and a dielectric layer, with successively different etch chemistries is performed in a single plasma reactor chamber. A first transition step is performed after etching the ARC by replacing the fluorine-containing process gas used in the ARC etch step with an inert species process gas. A flush step is performed after etching the ACL by replacing the hydrogen-containing process gas used in the ACL etch step with argon gas.
摘要:
A method of opening a carbon-based hardmask layer composed of amorphous carbon containing preferably at least 60% carbon and between 10 and 40% hydrogen. The hardmask is opened by plasma etching using an etching gas composed of H2, N2, and CO. The etching is preferably performed in a plasma etch reactor having an HF biased pedestal electrode and a capacitively VHF biased showerhead.
摘要翻译:一种由优选含有至少60%的碳和10至40%氢气的无定形碳组成的碳基硬掩模层的方法。 使用由H 2 N 2 N 2 N 2和CO组成的蚀刻气体通过等离子体蚀刻来打开硬掩模。蚀刻优选在具有HF偏置的等离子体蚀刻反应器中进行 基座电极和电容VHF偏置花洒。