Abstract:
High-aspect ratio trenches in integrated circuits are fabricated of composite materials and with trench boundaries having pencil-like etching profiles. The fabrication methods reduce surface tension between trench boundaries and fluids applied during manufacture, thereby avoiding pattern bending, bowing, and collapse. The method, further, facilitates fill-in of trenches with suitable selected materials.
Abstract:
High-aspect ratio trenches in integrated circuits are fabricated of composite materials and with trench boundaries having pencil-like etching profiles. The fabrication methods reduce surface tension between trench boundaries and fluids applied during manufacture, thereby avoiding pattern bending, bowing, and collapse. The method, further, facilitates fill-in of trenches with suitable selected materials.
Abstract:
A semiconductor stack includes a carbon doped/implanted stop layer that reacts with etching plasma to form polymers that maintain bottom etched critical dimension (ECD) and avoid excess recess depth when over-etching in high-aspect-ratio structures.
Abstract:
Present example embodiments relate generally to methods for fabricating semiconductor devices comprising forming an initial stack of alternating insulative and conductive layers over a substrate, identifying a plurality of bit line locations and word line locations for the initial stack, including a first bit line location and a first word line location, and forming, from the initial stack, a vertical arrangement of bit lines in the first bit line location, the vertical arrangement of bit lines having opposing sidewalls. The method further comprises forming a word line by forming a thin conductive layer over selected sections of the opposing sidewalls, the selected sections of the opposing sidewalls being sections within the first word line location. The forming the word line further comprises depositing conductive material adjacent to each thin conductive layer, the deposited conductive material in direct contact with the thin conductive layer.