Etching process utilizing the same positive photoresist layer for two
etching steps
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    发明授权
    Etching process utilizing the same positive photoresist layer for two etching steps 失效
    蚀刻工艺利用相同的正性光致抗蚀剂层进行两个蚀刻步骤

    公开(公告)号:US4040891A

    公开(公告)日:1977-08-09

    申请号:US701068

    申请日:1976-06-30

    摘要: In integrated circuit fabrication a method is provided involving the utilization of the same positive photoresist layer to form two different masks used in two separate etching steps. A positive photoresist layer is formed on a substrate, and portions of the positive photoresist layer are selectively exposed and developed to form the photoresist mask having a pattern of openings therethrough exposing the underlying substrate. Then, the substrate exposed in these openings is etched to form the pattern of recesses in the substrate corresponding to the openings. Next, portions of the remaining photoresist layer respectively adjacent to openings in the photoresist layer are exposed and developed to laterally expand such openings, after which the substrate exposed in these expanded openings is etched whereby the portions of the recesses underlying the original openings are etched deeper than the portions of the recesses underlying the expanded portions of said openings. The result is a two-level recess pattern.In accordance with an important aspect of the disclosure, the substrate being etched is a layer of electrically insulative material formed over an integrated semiconductor circuit member, and the deeper portions of the recesses are etched completely through the insulative layer to form holes which may be used for the passage of contacts to a semiconductor substrate where the insulative layer is directly on the substrate or as via holes when the insulative layer is formed between two layers of integrated circuit metallurgy.

    摘要翻译: 在集成电路制造中,提供了涉及利用相同的正性光致抗蚀剂层形成在两个单独的蚀刻步骤中使用的两种不同掩模的方法。 正性光致抗蚀剂层形成在衬底上,并且正性光致抗蚀剂层的部分被选择性地曝光和显影,以形成具有通过其暴露下方衬底的开口图案的光致抗蚀剂掩模。 然后,在这些开口中暴露的基板被蚀刻以形成对应于开口的基板中的凹槽的图案。 接下来,暴露并显影分别邻近光致抗蚀剂层中的开口的剩余光致抗蚀剂层的部分以横向扩展这样的开口,然后蚀刻在这些扩展的开口中暴露的基板,由此蚀刻原始开口下方的凹部的部分被更深地蚀刻 比在所述开口的扩展部分下面的凹部的部分。 结果是一个两层凹槽图案。