摘要:
According to a disclosed semiconductor device fabrication method according to one embodiment of the present invention, a layer having a line-and-space pattern extending in one direction is etched using another layer having a line-and-space pattern extending in another direction intersecting the one direction, thereby obtaining a mask having two-dimensionally arranged dots. An underlying layer is etched using the mask, thereby providing two-dimensionally arranged pillars.
摘要:
A method is provided for low-pressure plasma ashing to remove photoresist remnants and etch residues that are formed during preceding plasma etching of dielectric layers. The ashing method uses a two-step plasma process involving an oxygen-containing gas, where low or zero bias is applied to the substrate in the first cleaning step to remove significant amount of photoresist remnants and etch residues from the substrate, in addition to etching and removing detrimental fluoro-carbon residues from the chamber surfaces. An increased bias is applied to the substrate in the second cleaning step to remove the remains of the photoresist and etch residues from the substrate. A chamber pressure less than 20 mTorr is utilized in the second cleaning step. The two-step process reduces the memory effect commonly observed in conventional one-step ashing processes. A method of endpoint detection can be used to monitor the ashing process.
摘要:
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device, which etches a layer to be etched on a substrate into a predetermined pattern based on a first pattern of photoresist produced by exposing and developing a photoresist film, the manufacturing method including the steps of forming an SiO2 film on a first pattern of the photoresist, etching the SiO2 film so that the SiO2 may remain only in a side wall section of a first pattern of the photoresist, removing a first pattern of the photoresist, and forming a second pattern of the SiO2 film.
摘要:
Disclosed is a method for forming an etching mask, capable of precisely and easily forming an etching mask having a microscopic pattern of a non-straight-line shape. An exposure pattern of a straight-line shape is transferred to a photoresist by using a first reticle and developed, and after a trimming process, a SiO2 layer is etched by using it as a mask. Thereafter, an exposure pattern of a straight-line shape is transferred to a photoresist by using a second reticle and developed, and then, a protruding amount of an end portion of the photoresist protruding from the SiO2 layer is measured. Subsequently, the pattern of the photoresist is trimmed to have a preset thickness and length, and by forming the protruding amount to have a preset amount or less, and by using this as a mask, a Si3N4 layer is etched, thereby forming an etching mask having an approximately L-shape.
摘要翻译:公开了一种形成蚀刻掩模的方法,其能够精确且容易地形成具有非直线形状的微观图案的蚀刻掩模。 通过使用第一掩模版将直线形状的曝光图案转印到光致抗蚀剂中并显影,并且在修整工艺之后,通过使用其作为掩模来蚀刻SiO 2层。 此后,通过使用第二掩模版将直线形状的曝光图案转印到光致抗蚀剂并显影,然后测量从SiO 2层突出的光致抗蚀剂的端部的突出量。 随后,将光致抗蚀剂的图案修剪成具有预设的厚度和长度,并且通过将突出量形成为预定量或更小的量,并且通过将其用作掩模,蚀刻Si 3 N 4层,从而形成蚀刻掩模 具有大致L形。
摘要:
A substrate processing system includes a resist pattern forming apparatus including modules each configured to perform a predetermined process on a substrate with an underlying film formed thereon, an etched pattern forming apparatus including chambers each configured to perform patterning of the underlying film by use of a resist pattern as a mask, and examination devices configured to perform measurement and examination of a pattern attribute rendered on a substrate after a process in the resist pattern forming apparatus and after a process in the etched pattern forming apparatus. A controller is preset to utilize measurement results and transfer data to calculate correction value ranges respectively settable in the modules and the chambers and to determine combinations of the modules and the chambers such that corrections made within the correction value ranges cause a pattern attribute to approximate a predetermined value for each of the substrates.
摘要:
A method is provided for plasma ashing to remove photoresist remnants and etch residues that are formed during preceding plasma etching of dielectric layers. The ashing method uses a two-step plasma process involving an oxygen-containing gas, where low or zero bias is applied to the substrate in the first cleaning step to remove significant amount of photoresist remnants and etch residues from the substrate, in addition to etching and removing detrimental fluoro-carbon residues from the chamber surfaces. An increased bias is applied to the substrate in the second cleaning step to remove the remains of the photoresist and etch residues from the substrate. The two-step process reduces the memory effect commonly observed in conventional one-step ashing processes. A method of endpoint detection can be used to monitor the ashing process.
摘要:
A multi-layer coating comprising a base coat and a topcoat is formed on an article such as a chemically-treated steel plate by coating the article with a base coat composition containing (a) a cross-linking agent which does not interfere with the hydrosilylation reaction of a topcoat composition, and (b) a functional resin reactable with the cross-linking agent, and then with a topcoat composition containing (c) (i) a blend of a hydrosilyl group-containing compound and an alkenyl group-containing compound, and/or (ii) a self-crosslinkable resin, and (d) a catalytic amount of a hydrosilylation catalyst, followed by separate or simultaneous baking. The topcoat composition may contain functional groups (phosphoric groups and/or alkoxysilyl groups) or a functional group-containing compound.
摘要:
A left shift tri-state buffer and a right shift tri-state buffer are provided in each of a plurality of barrel-shifter unit circuits which constitute a barrel-shifter, wherein a left or right shift control signal supplied to a left and right shift input terminal enables either of them. As a result, the left or right shift control signal switches between data transfer route from an input terminal to the input end i/o terminal and that from the input terminal to the output end i/o terminal so as to set a left shift or a right shift. It is also possible to shift input data by desired bits which are set by supplying address signals to address terminals to set the shifting amount.
摘要:
A plasma generating apparatus comprising a transformer including a primary winding connected to a high frequency power source and a secondary winding having two end terminals and a plurality of tap terminals connected between the end terminals, the transformer being adapted to deliver first and second high frequency electric powers with a phase difference of 180.degree. from the end terminals, upper and lower electrodes disposed in a vacuum chamber so as to be opposed at a distance from each other and supplied with the first and second high frequency powers, respectively, and a power ratio selector for switching the tap terminals to select the ratio between the first and second high frequency powers supplied to the electrodes, wherein a to-be-processed object placed on the lower electrode is processed by means of plasma formed between the electrodes.
摘要:
In a system of optical repeated transmission having a signal transmission path for transmitting signal light, and an optical repeater disposed in the signal transmission path, and directly amplifying the signal light, the amplification factor of the repeater is not dependent on the direction of polarization of the signal light that is input to it.