Abstract:
The inventive concepts provide a method of completely removing a damage region of a surface of an etch target layer after plasma-etching the etch target layer. The method includes performing a first post-etch plasma treatment process using a first post-treatment gas on the plasma-etched etch target layer. A polarity of ions of the first post-treatment gas may be the same as a polarity of bias power applied to a stage in a plasma apparatus.
Abstract:
Provided is a method of rinsing and drying a semiconductor device, including forming a pattern on a substrate; rinsing the substrate, where the pattern is formed, using a rinse solution; loading the substrate into a dry chamber; injecting supercritical carbon dioxide into the dry chamber such that rinse solution remaining on the pattern is diluted to have a concentration below 2 percent by weight based on a weight of the rinse solution remaining on the pattern and the supercritical carbon dioxide; and venting the supercritical carbon dioxide such that the dry chamber is maintained at atmospheric pressure to dry the substrate where the pattern is formed.