Abstract:
An apparatus is described for generating excited and/or ionized particles in a plasma with a generator for generating an electromagnetic wave and an excitation chamber with a plasma zone in which the excited and/or ionized particles are formed. At least one excitation chamber is arranged in an insulating material off-center relative to a ring-cylindrical outer conductor.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a production method for a halftone phase mask which has an SiO2 substrate, an overlying refractory metal SixNy phase shifter layer (2) and an overlying chromium oxide or chromium mask layer (3), having the following steps: provision of a mask (4) on the chromium oxide or chromium mask layer (3); etching of the chromium oxide or chromium mask layer (3) for the purpose of forming a hard mask from the chromium oxide or chromium mask layer (3) in a first etching step; selective etching of the refractory metal SixNy phase shifter layer (2) using the hard mask in a plasma with a chlorine-containing and/or hydrogen-chloride-containing main gas in a second etching step with a predetermined cathode power of at least 20 W.
Abstract translation:本发明提供了一种半色调相位掩模的制造方法,其具有SiO 2衬底,上覆难熔金属Si x N N y Y y移相器 层(2)和上覆的氧化铬或铬掩模层(3),具有以下步骤:在氧化铬或铬掩模层(3)上设置掩模(4); 在第一蚀刻步骤中,为了从氧化铬或铬掩模层(3)形成硬掩模,蚀刻氧化铬或铬掩模层(3) 使用具有含氯和/或含氯化氢的等离子体中的硬掩模选择性蚀刻难熔金属Si x N y Y y移相层(2) 在第二蚀刻步骤中的主气体具有至少20W的预定阴极功率
Abstract:
A method for the manufacture of highly-integrated circuits on a semiconductor substrate includes applying coatings to front and back sides of a wafer of semiconductor material in at least one deposition process, and subsequently removing the coating on the back of the wafer by etching being carried out with the front of the wafer being free of lacquer. The etching is performed in a process chamber in which reactive particles produced in a plasma only reach the back of the wafer, while advances of the reactive particles toward the front of the wafer are prevented by a protective neutral gas.
Abstract:
The apparatus and method of the invention allow etching of the edge of a semiconductor substrate even where no resist is applied to the front side and back side of the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate is introduced into a protective chamber within an evacuatable process chamber. The front side and the back side of the semiconductor substrate are covered by the protective chamber except for the edge of the semiconductor substrate to be etched. The edge of the semiconductor substrate is then exposed to an etching agent. Etching products and excess etching agent are removed.
Abstract:
A plasma discharge tube (5) having a diameter that corresponds to a quarter wavelength of the standing wave is selected and the waveguide system (2) is dimensioned and tuned such that the standing wave forms a first voltage maximum at a first side of the plasma discharge tube (5) and the standing wave is also supplied reflected, so that it forms a second, anti-phase voltage maximum at a second side of the plasma discharge tube (5) that lies opposite the first side and faces toward an end termination (12) of the waveguide system (2). A controlled magnetic field is applied in order to achieve an especially low working pressure.
Abstract:
Method for manufacturing a trench capacitor of a one-transistor memory cell in a semiconductor substrate with a self-aligned cooperating capacitor electrode. In a one-transistor memory cell having a trench capacitor in a semiconductor substrate (1), a field oxide (3) that isolates different cells is exploited for a self-aligning process. After the formation of a first electrode and of a dielectrode (5) of the capacitor, a conductive layer (6) is applied surface-wide, the upper edge thereof being higher over the field oxide (3) than over the field-oxide-free locations of the substrate (1). The raised location is exposed in a re-etching process upon employment of a planarizing auxiliary layer (9), and a sub-layer (10, 10') is selectively applied thereon, either by local oxidation, selective or non-selective deposition. This sub-layer (10, 10') serves as a self-aligned mask for the structuring of the conductive layer (6) as a cooperating electrode of the trench capacitor.