Abstract:
The disclosure relates to a dummy gate electrode of a semiconductor device. An embodiment comprises a substrate comprising a first surface; an insulation region covering a portion of the first surface, wherein the top of the insulation region defines a second surface; and a dummy gate electrode over the second surface, wherein the dummy gate electrode comprises a bottom and a base broader than the bottom, wherein a ratio of a width of the bottom to a width of the base is from about 0.5 to about 0.9.
Abstract:
A method of fabricating a semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) is disclosed. The method includes receiving a semiconductor device, patterning a first hard mask to form a first recess in a high-resistor (Hi-R) stack, removing the first hard mask, forming a second recess in the Hi-R stack, forming a second hard mask in the second recess in the Hi-R stack. A HR can then be formed in the semiconductor substrate by the second hard mask and a gate trench etch.
Abstract:
An advertising system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a processor and a memory including application instructions for execution by the processor. The application instructions may include a visual analytics engine to analyze visual information including human activity and a content engine separate from the visual analytics engine to provide advertising content to one or more potential customers. Further, the instructions may include an interface module to enable information generated from analysis of the human activity by the visual analytics engine to be transferred to the content engine in accordance with a specification in which the information generated is characterized with a hierarchical, object-oriented data structure. Additional methods, systems, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
Abstract:
The present disclosure provides a method of chamber match. The method includes identifying a golden chamber designed operable to implement a semiconductor process; identifying a reference chamber designed operable for the semiconductor process; and extracting a matching index of a processing chamber relative to the golden chamber and the reference chamber using a dynamic variable analysis.
Abstract:
An integrated process flow including a plasma step for removing oxide residues following oxygen ashing of a photoresist layer is disclosed. The oxide removal step is effective in preventing micro mask defects and is preferably performed in the same process chamber used for the oxygen ashing step and for a subsequent plasma etch used for pattern transfer. The oxide removal step takes less than 60 seconds and involves a halogen containing plasma that is generated from one or more of NF3, Cl2, CF4, CH2F2, and SF6. Optionally, HBr or a fluorocarbon CXFYHZ where x and y are integers and z is an integer or is equal to 0 may be used alone or with one of the aforementioned halogen containing gases. The oxide removal step may be incorporated in a variety of applications including a damascene scheme, shallow trench (STI) fabrication, or formation of a gate electrode in a transistor.
Abstract translation:公开了一种集成工艺流程,其包括用于除去光致抗蚀剂层的氧灰化之后的氧化物残余物的等离子体步骤。 氧化物去除步骤在防止微掩模缺陷方面是有效的,并且优选在用于氧灰化步骤的相同处理室和用于图案转移的后续等离子体蚀刻中进行。 氧化物去除步骤需要少于60秒,并且涉及从NF 3,Cl 2,CF 4,...中的一个或多个产生的含卤素等离子体, SUB 2,CH 2,2 F 2和SF 6。 可选地,HBr或碳氟化合物其中x和y是整数,z是整数或等于0可以是 可以单独使用或与上述含卤素气体中的一种一起使用。 氧化物去除步骤可以结合在各种应用中,包括镶嵌方案,浅沟槽(STI)制造或在晶体管中形成栅电极。
Abstract:
A method for compensating for CD variations across a semiconductor process wafer surface in a plasma etching process including providing a semiconductor wafer having a process surface including photolithographically developed features imaged from a photomask; determining a first dimensional variation of the features with respect to corresponding photomask dimensions along at least one wafer surface direction to determine a first levelness of the process surface; determining gas flow parameters in a plasma reactor for a plasma etching process required to approach a level process surface by reference to an archive of previous plasma etching process parameters carried out in the plasma reactor; carrying out the plasma etching process in the plasma rector according to the determined gas flow parameters; and, determining a second dimensional variation of the features along the at least one wafer surface direction to determine a second levelness of the process surface.