Semiconductor device manufacturing: process – Semiconductor substrate dicing – Having a perfecting coating
Reexamination Certificate
2007-10-30
2007-10-30
Lee, Calvin (Department: 2818)
Semiconductor device manufacturing: process
Semiconductor substrate dicing
Having a perfecting coating
C438S113000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11262770
ABSTRACT:
To divide into individual devices efficiently in dicing a wafer without causing quality of the devices to lower, a wafer processing method includes steps of coating a rear surface of the wafer with a resist film, exposing and sensitizing portions of the resist film other than regions corresponding to the streets; and supplying a silylation agent onto a surface of the resist film and silylating the resist film in a sensitized region. In an etching unit, an oxygen- or chlorine-containing gas is plasmatized and supplied to a rear surface of the wafer coated with a silylated resist film, and the resist film in an unsilylated regions corresponding to the streets is ashed and removed. A stable fluoride gas is plasmatized and supplied to the rear surface of the wafer, and the resist film in the regions corresponding to the streets is etch-removed to divide the wafer W into individual devices.
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Ono Takashi
Sekiya Kazuma
Disco Corporation
Lee Calvin
Wenderoth , Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
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