Invention Application
- Patent Title: PLASMA ETCHING IN SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING
-
Application No.: US18234685Application Date: 2023-08-16
-
Publication No.: US20250062131A1Publication Date: 2025-02-20
- Inventor: Hanbyul Jin , Sangjun Park , Menghui Li , Xiawan Yang , Sunil Srinivasan , Meishen Liu , Andrew Butler , Qian Fu
- Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Main IPC: H01L21/308
- IPC: H01L21/308 ; H01L21/02 ; H01L21/3065 ; H01L21/311

Abstract:
Methods of semiconductor processing may include forming plasma effluents of a plurality of precursors (e.g., an etchant precursor, an oxygen-containing precursor, and a silicon-and-fluorine-containing precursor like silicon tetrafluoride). The plasma effluents may then contact a silicon-containing material and a mask material on a substrate in a processing region of a semiconductor processing chamber. The mask material may have one or more apertures therein that allow the plasma effluents access to the silicon-containing material. Contacting the silicon-containing material and the mask material with the plasma effluents may cause (i) etching the silicon-containing material with the plasma effluents to form and/or deepen one or more features in the silicon-containing material and (ii) simultaneously etching the mask material and depositing a silicon-and-oxygen-containing material on the mask material with the plasma effluents.
Information query
IPC分类: