Semiconductor device manufacturing: process – Chemical etching – Having liquid and vapor etching steps
Patent
1996-07-11
1998-12-15
Codd, Bernard
Semiconductor device manufacturing: process
Chemical etching
Having liquid and vapor etching steps
438703, 438705, 438706, 438738, 438743, 438745, 438756, 438763, 438783, 438784, 438787, 438790, 216 62, 216 87, 4274192, 4274197, H01L 2144, B05D 136
Patent
active
058496351
ABSTRACT:
A semiconductor processing method of forming a contact opening includes providing a substrate having a node location to which electrical connection is to be made. A layer comprising doped silicon dioxide is formed over the node location. Thereafter, both O.sub.2 and O.sub.3 are flowed simultaneously to the substrate along with tetraethylorthosilicate to the substrate to form a continuous layer comprising undoped silicon dioxide on the layer comprising doped silicon dioxide. During the flowing, a ratio of O.sub.3 to O.sub.2 flows is increased to form an outer portion of the continuous layer comprising undoped silicon dioxide to have a higher etch rate for a selected wet etch chemistry than an inner portion of said continuous layer. A common contact opening is anisotropically dry etched into the layer comprising undoped silicon dioxide and into the layer comprising doped silicon dioxide over the node location to outwardly expose the node location. After this etching, a subsequent wet etching with the selected chemistry is conducted within the common contact opening to widen the contact opening in the outer portion of the layer comprising undoped silicon dioxide as compared to the inner portion of the layer comprising undoped silicon dioxide. The subsequent wet etching is chosen and conducted to be effectively selective to not substantially laterally etch the layer comprising doped silicon dioxide.
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Akram Salman
Lowrey Tyler A.
Codd Bernard
Micro)n Technology, Inc.
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