Semiconductor device manufacturing: process – Chemical etching – Liquid phase etching
Patent
1995-06-29
2000-03-14
Wortman, Donna
Semiconductor device manufacturing: process
Chemical etching
Liquid phase etching
438704, 438706, 438708, 438689, 438753, 216 89, 216 87, 216 94, 216 99, 216108, 216109, C23F 124, C23F 110
Patent
active
060372702
ABSTRACT:
The gate oxide film is prevented from being thinned partially. The semiconductor substrate (wafer) can be etched (processed) under excellent conditions. The impurities on the wafer surface can be analyzed and further reduced. In the first aspect, the substrate is irradiated with ultraviolet rays in contact with an F-containing aqueous solution, so that the oxide film and the substrate can be etched at roughly the same etching speed under excellent controllability without deteriorating the planarization of the substrate. In the second aspect, the substrate is etched by irradiating ultraviolet rays during exposure to an acid aqueous solution, so that surface metallic contamination and particles can be removed without deteriorating the wafer surface roughness. Further, the impurity elements in the outermost surface layer of the wafer can be analyzed at high precision by analyzing elements contained in the acid aqueous solution used for the etching. According to the third aspect, holes and electrons are recombined in the polycrystal silicon during irradiation of the ultraviolet rays, and metallic impurities are dissolved into the aqueous solution as ions, so that metallic impurities in the polycrystal silicon can be reduced.
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Kageyama Mokuji
Miyashita Moriya
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Wortman Donna
Zeman Mary K
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