Abstract:
Methods are provided for depositing a dielectric material for use as an anti-reflective coating and sacrificial dielectric material in damascene formation. In one aspect, a process is provided for processing a substrate including depositing an acidic dielectric layer on the substrate by reacting an oxygen-containing organosilicon compound and an acidic compound, depositing a photoresist material on the acidic dielectric layer, and patterning the photoresist layer. The acidic dielectric layer may be used as a sacrificial layer in forming a feature definition by etching a partial feature definition, depositing the acidic dielectric material, etching the remainder of the feature definition, and then removing the acidic dielectric material to form a feature definition.
Abstract:
Methods are provided for processing a substrate for depositing an adhesion layer having a low dielectric constant between two low k dielectric layers. In one aspect, the invention provides a method for processing a substrate including depositing a barrier layer (112) on the substrate, wherein the barrier layer comprises silicon and carbon and has a dielectric constant less than 4, depositing a dielectric initiation layer adjacent the barrier layer, and depositing a first dielectric layer (110) adjacent the dielectric initiation layer, wherein the dielectric layer comprises silicon, oxygen, and carbon and has a dielectric constant of about 3 or less.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for characterizing a polymer sample and in preferred embodiments, libraries of polymer samples, in a comprehensive, directly-coupled multi-dimensional liquid chromatography system are disclosed. The first and second dimensions are preferably high-performance liquid chromatography dimensions, such as for example, a first dimension adapted for determining composition e.g. adapted for mobile-phase gradient elution chromatography, including reverse phase chromatography, adsorption chromatography and the like), and a second dimension adapted for determining molecular weight or particle size (e.g., adapted for size exclusion chromatography, including gel permeation chromatography).