摘要:
A pressure swing adsorption process which includes switching a plurality of adsorption columns packed with an adsorbent successively to an adsorption step, a pressure equalization step, an evacuation step, a vacuum purge step, a pressure equalization step and a repressurization step to allow a more strongly adsorbable component gas contained in a gaseous mixture to be adsorbed on the adsorbent and to separate a less strongly adsorbable component gas. The process further includes compressing the thus separated less strongly adsorbable component gas by a product gas compressor to supply it as a product gas. An adsorption column having completed the adsorption step and another adsorption column having completed the vacuum purge step are allowed to communicate to each other on product discharge sides and on raw material supply sides respectively in the pressure equalization step, to recover the product gas under gradual increase of gas flow rate on the raw material supply side and also to evacuate the adsorption column having completed the adsoroption step.
摘要:
A method for the production of a semiconductor device in which wiring is formed in three dimensions by the use of interlevel insulators having a flat surface, which method comprises the steps of: applying first insulation material and hardening by heat treatment to form an insulating film made of the first material; etching the insulating film made of the first material in such a manner that only concave portions of an underlying layer are filled with an insulator made of the first material; and forming an insulating film made of a second material thereon, wherein the interlevel insulator is formed by repeating the steps for at least two times so as to have a plurality of the insulators made of the first material which are separated by the insulating films made of the second material.
摘要:
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes the steps of (a) depositing a first insulating film by an isotropic deposition method over the entire surface of a semiconductor substrate which is provided with a narrow trench having an opening width in submicrons and a broad trench having an opening width larger than 1 .mu.m so that the narrow and broad trenches are substantially filled with the first insulating film; (b) removing the first insulating film by an isotropic dry etching method; (c) depositing a second insulating film over the entire surface of the semiconductor substrate by an isotropic deposition method so that the narrow and broad trenches are substantially filled with the second insulating film; (d) forming a first resist layer on the broad trench filled with the second insulating film; (e) forming a second resist layer over the entire surface of the second insulating film and the first resist layer thereon; and (f) removing the first and second resist layers and the second insulating film by an anisotropic dry etching method until the surface of the semiconductor substrate is flattened.