Planarization process for organic filling of deep trenches

Details Planarization process for organic filling of deep trenches Planarization process for organic filling of deep trenches

1985-08-19

1987-05-12

Kittle, John E.

Radiation imagery chemistry: process, composition, or product th

Imaging affecting physical property of radiation sensitive...

Making electrical device

430313, 430317, 430323, 430330, 156643, 156668, G03C 500

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046650075

ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a process for planarization of semiconductor structures having dielectric isolation regions. Specifically, the process is directed to planarization of an organic polyimide layer obtained following filling of deep trenches in a semiconductor substrate having high and low density trench regions with this material. After over-filling the trenches with the polyimide and obtaining a non-planar polyimide layer having a thickness much larger in the low trench density regions than that in the high density regions, a photoresist layer is applied thereover. The photoresist is then controllably exposed using a mask which is the complement or inverse of the mask used for imaging the trench patterns to obtain a thick blockout photoresist mask over the trenches and a thin wetting layer of photoresist over the remainder of the substrate. Next, by means of a thermal step, the blockout photoresist is caused to reflow to form a relatively thick photoresist layer over the high trench density regions and a thin photoresist layer over the low trench density regions, thereby exactly compensating for the non-planarity of the polyimide layer.

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