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7045052 Method of manufacturing a spectral filter for green and longer wavelengths  
A method of manufacture for optical spectral filters with omnidirectional properties in the visible, near IR, mid IR and/or far IR (infrared) spectral ranges is based on the formation of large...
7037843 Plasma etching method  
To provide a plasma etching method that can suppress discharge of active gases that do not contribute to plasma etching into the atmosphere, a plasma etching apparatus 10 is composed of a vacuum...
7033515 Method for manufacturing microstructure  
A method is for manufacturing a microstructure having a thin-walled portion with use of a material substrate. The material substrate has a laminated structure which includes a first conductor layer...
7033514 Method and apparatus for micromachining using a magnetic field and plasma etching  
This invention relates to a method and apparatus for forming a micromachined device, where a workpiece is plasma etched to define a microstructure. The plasma etching is conducted in the presence...
RE39064 Electronic device manufacturing apparatus and method for manufacturing electronic device  
An electronic device manufacturing apparatus includes: a reaction chamber including a wall having a ground potential level; a reaction gas inlet for introducing a reaction gas into the reaction...
7029594 Plasma processing method  
A plasma processing method for providing plasma processing to an object to be processed disposed within a vacuum processing chamber in which a process gas feeding device feeds process gas into the...
7029593 Method for controlling CD during an etch process  
A method for controlling CD of etch process defines difference between designed dimension and etched dimension as dimensional displacement and defines target value of the dimensional displacement....
7026252 Etching aftertreatment method  
After etching a Si-containing low permittivity insulating film with chlorine based gas, the etched wafer is subjected to an etching aftertreatment process comprising introducing oxygen gas to a...
7025895 Plasma processing apparatus and method  
A plasma processing apparatus and method are capable of performing etching with high precision without damaging the semiconductor wafer. The plasma processing apparatus has a plasma generation...
7025858 Apparatus for supporting wafer in semiconductor process  
The present invention provides an apparatus for supporting a wafer in a semiconductor process. The apparatus includes an electrostatic chuck, a focus ring and a conductive material. The...
7022245 Fabrication of a reflective spatial light modulator  
Fabrication of a reflective spatial light modulator including a micro-mirror array. In one embodiment, the micro mirror array is fabricated from a substrate that is a single crystal material by...
7018780 Methods for controlling and reducing profile variation in photoresist trimming  
A method for controlling a removal of photoresist material from a semiconductor substrate is provided. The method includes providing the semiconductor substrate having a photoresist mask formed...
7018554 Method to reduce stacking fault nucleation sites and reduce forward voltage drift in bipolar devices  
A method is disclosed for preparing a substrate and epilayer for reducing stacking fault nucleation and reducing forward voltage (V f ) drift in silicon carbide-based bipolar devices. The method...
7018553 Optical monitoring and control system and method for plasma reactors  
A method of adjusting plasma processing of a substrate in a plasma reactor having an electrode assembly. The method includes the steps of positioning the substrate in the plasma reactor, creating a...
7018552 Method of manufacturing electronic device  
A method of manufacturing an electronic device comprises forming a wiring material layer made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy on the surface of an insulating film on a substrate, patterning the...
7014958 Method for dry etching photomask material  
A photomask is formed by depositing an opaque layer on a transparent substrate. A resist is formed on the opaque layer and selectively patterned to expose the portions of the opaque layer that are...
7014788 Surface treatment method and equipment  
A method for treating material surface utilizing atomic hydrogen. The method includes utilizing atomic hydrogen by mixing halogen and/or halide to a gas which is used for generating, atomic...
7005032 Wafer table for local dry etching apparatus  
To resolve a problem that an etching rate profile is changed by a position of a nozzle relative to a semiconductor wafer and accordingly, at a vicinity of an outer edge of the semiconductor wafer,...
7001698 Method and apparatus for dry-etching half-tone phase-shift films, half-tone phase-shift photomasks and method for the preparation thereof, and semiconductor circuits and method for the fabrication thereof  
A chromium-containing half-tone phase-shift photomask comprising coarse and dense patterns coexisting in a plane is prepared by a series of pattern-forming steps including forming a resist layer on...
7001529 Pre-endpoint techniques in photoresist etching  
A method for controlling a photoresist etch step in a plasma processing chamber is disclosed. The photoresist etch step being configured to etch back a photoresist layer deposited on a substrate...
6998221 Method for forming a via in a substrate  
The present invention provides a method for forming a via (e.g., a trench, via or contact) in a substrate. The method, in one embodiment of the invention, includes patterning an opening 220 in a...
6991739 Method of photoresist removal in the presence of a dielectric layer having a low k-value  
A method of photoresist removal is described. A substrate is located in a processing chamber. A mixture of gases is excited, the mixture comprising a majority component of a reducing process gas...
6989105 Detection of hardmask removal using a selective etch  
A method of creating electrical shorts within an interconnection structure, using a selective etch, to detect a region that is missing a protective hardmask in order to prevent future use of the...
6986851 Dry developing method  
A dry developing method for drawing a resist formed on a processed body by leading processing gas between parallel flat electrodes installed in a vacuum processing container and forming the plasma...
6984472 Exposure method and apparatus  
An unwanted deposited film is removed from the surface of a photomask in which a desired pattern has been formed. Then, a resist film is exposed to extreme ultraviolet radiation through the...
6982175 End point detection in time division multiplexed etch processes  
An improved method for determining endpoint of a time division multiplexed process by monitoring an identified region of a spectral emission of the process at a characteristic process frequency....
6982042 Ion bombardment of electrical lapping guides to decrease noise during lapping process  
A method for reducing noise in a lapping guide. Selected portions of a Giant magnetoresistive device wafer are masked, thereby defining masked and unmasked regions of the wafer in which the...
6981508 On-site cleaning gas generation for process chamber cleaning  
Provided herein is a method for cleaning a process chamber for semiconductor and/or flat panel display manufacturing. This method comprises the steps of converting a non-cleaning feed gas to a...
6979408 Method and apparatus for photomask fabrication  
The invention provides methods and apparatuses for controlling critical dimension (CD) uniformity of a photomask by neutralizing CD variation associated with pattern density and process fluctuation.
6972071 High-speed symmetrical plasma treatment system  
A plasma treatment system ( 10 ) and related methods for rapidly treating a workpiece ( 56 ) with ions from a plasma having an ion density that is reproducibly uniform and symmetrical. The...
6969470 Method for fabricating ESI device using smile and delayed LOCOS techniques  
Three fundamental and three derived aspects of the present invention are disclosed. The three fundamental aspects each disclose a process sequence that may be integrated in a full process. The...
6967170 Methods of forming silicon nitride spacers, and methods of forming dielectric sidewall spacers  
The invention includes a method of patterning a material over a semiconductive substrate, comprising: a) forming a layer of first material against a second material and over the substrate, the...
6966997 Methods for patterning polymer films, and use of the methods  
In a method for patterning a polymer film forming a coating on a material surface, a thin film of polymer is deposited on the surface and the patterning takes place by applying to the material...
6964743 Inkjet printhead and manufacturing method thereof  
An inkjet printhead and a manufacturing method thereof. The inkjet printhead includes a substrate, a substantially cylindrical ink chamber storing ink and formed in an upper portion of the...
6962772 Method for manufacturing 3-D high aspect-ratio microneedle array device  
A method for manufacturing a 3-D high aspect-ratio microneedle array device, comprising steps of: providing a substrate, with a photoresist layer coated thereon; performing photolithography on the...
6962664 Controlled method for segmented electrode apparatus and method for plasma processing  
An electrode assembly ( 50 ) and an associated plasma reactor system ( 10 ) and related methods for a variety of plasma processing applications. The electrode assembly provides control of a plasma...
6960413 Multi-step process for etching photomasks  
Method and apparatus for etching a metal layer disposed on a substrate, such as a photolithographic reticle, are provided. In one aspect, a method is provided for processing a photolithographic...
6960306 Low Cu percentages for reducing shorts in AlCu lines  
In a method of fabricating a metallization structure during formation of a microelectronic device, the improvement of reducing metal shorts in blanket metal deposition layers later subjected to...
6955991 Atmospheric process and system for controlled and rapid removal of polymers from high depth to width aspect ratio holes  
A hot arc-type plasma generating system is described to etch a polymer on a substrate used in the manufacture of semiconductor devices. The etching process is particularly useful to remove a...
6953753 Method for manufacturing semiconductor device  
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device having a movable unit includes a step of forming an SOI substrate that includes a semiconductor substrate, an insulating layer, and a semiconductor...
6953531 Methods of etching silicon-oxide-containing materials  
The invention encompasses a method of enhancing selectivity of etching silicon dioxide relative to one or more organic substances. A material comprising one or more elements selected from Group...
6949204 Deformation reduction at the main chamber  
A vacuum chamber with a cover with a first section, a second section, and a pocket between the first section and second section is provided. The vacuum chamber has a main cavity to which the first...
6949203 System level in-situ integrated dielectric etch process particularly useful for copper dual damascene  
An integrated in situ etch process performed in a multichamber substrate processing system having first and second etching chambers. In one embodiment the first chamber includes an interior surface...
6949202 Apparatus and method for flow of process gas in an ultra-clean environment  
Processes for the addition or removal of a layer or region from a workpiece material by contact with a process gas in the manufacture of a microstructure are enhanced by the use of recirculation of...
6942816 Methods of reducing photoresist distortion while etching in a plasma processing system  
A method for substantially reducing photoresist wiggling while etching a layer on a substrate is provided. The substrate having thereon the layer disposed below a photoresist mask is introduced...
6942813 Method of etching magnetic and ferroelectric materials using a pulsed bias source  
A method for etching magnetic and ferroelectric materials using a pulsed substrate biasing technique (PSBT) that applies a plurality of processing cycles to the substrate, where each cycle...
6942812 Method of manufacturing etalon  
In producing an etalon, a thickness of an etalon base plate is measured, and the etalon base plate is placed in a process chamber. Then, a gas having a chemical reactivity with respect to a...
6939796 System, method and apparatus for improved global dual-damascene planarization  
A system and method for planarizing a patterned semiconductor substrate includes receiving a patterned semiconductor substrate. The patterned semiconductor substrate having a conductive...
6939473 Method of making an X-Y axis dual-mass tuning fork gyroscope with vertically integrated electronics and wafer-scale hermetic packaging  
A method for making an angular velocity sensor having two masses which are laterally disposed in an X-Y plane and indirectly connected to a frame provided. The two masses are linked together by a...
6936310 Plasma processing method  
In a plasma processing method making use of a plasma processing gas of a reactant gas and an inert gas, it is aimed at enhancing an efficiency of use of high-frequency power and a reactant gas to...