Coating processes – Coating by vapor – gas – or smoke – Base supplied constituent
Patent
1981-06-30
1983-01-11
Massie, Jerome W.
Coating processes
Coating by vapor, gas, or smoke
Base supplied constituent
134 3, 156643, 156665, 156667, 427309, 427318, 427327, 427399, H01L 21283, H01L 21306
Patent
active
043682200
ABSTRACT:
Aluminum-based alloy films and metallization layers that are patterned by reactive ion etching (RIE) are passivated by etching surface portions of the films or layers with a phosphoric-chromic mixture to remove contaminants and then oxidizing the exposed surface portions in an oxygen atmosphere.
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Eldridge Jerome M.
Lee Michael H.
Schwartz Geraldine C.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Kallman Nathan N.
Massie Jerome W.
Otto, Jr. Henry E.
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