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7601619 Method and apparatus for plasma processing  
A method and an apparatus for plasma processing which can accurately monitor an ion current applied to the surface of a sample. Predetermined gas is exhausted via an exhaust port by a...
7497964 Plasma igniting method and substrate processing method  
A method to solve such a problem that plasma will not ignite in restarting operation of a processing container that has not been operated with the inside kept drawn to vacuum. Gas containing oxygen...
7485580 Method for removing organic electroluminescent residues from a substrate  
A process for removing organic electroluminescent residues from a substrate is described herein. The process includes the steps of providing a process gas comprising a fluorine-containing gas,...
7465406 Method of exposing a substrate to a surface microwave plasma, etching method, deposition method, surface microwave plasma generating apparatus, semiconductor substrate etching apparatus, semiconductor substrate deposition apparatus, and microwave plasma generating antenna assembly  
In certain implementations, methods and apparatus include an antenna assembly having at least two overlapping and movable surface microwave plasma antennas. The antennas have respective pluralities...
7452660 Method for resist strip in presence of low K dielectric material and apparatus for performing the same  
A method and apparatus is provided for using a plasma generated from a processing gas mixture including H 2 O to efficiently strip photoresist material without causing significant damage to...
7393460 Plasma processing method and plasma processing apparatus  
The plasma processing method comprises the step of removing an organic material film forming an upper layer relative to a patterned SiOCH series film by the processing with a plasma of a process...
7375947 Method of feedback control of ESC voltage using wafer voltage measurement at the bias supply output  
In a plasma reactor having an electrostatic chuck, wafer voltage is determined from RF measurements at the bias input using previously determined constants based upon transmission line properties...
7374696 Method and apparatus for removing a halogen-containing residue  
The invention provides for a method and integrated system for removing a halogen-containing residue from a substrate comprising etching the substrate, heating the substrate and exposing the heated...
7322368 Plasma cleaning gas and plasma cleaning method  
A plasma cleaning gas for CVD chamber is a gas for cleaning silicon-containing deposits on the surface of a CVD chamber inner wall and the surfaces of members placed inside the CVD chamber after...
RE39895 Semiconductor integrated circuit arrangement fabrication method  
To realize etching with a high selection ratio and a high accuracy in fabrication of an LSI, the composition of dissociated species of a reaction gas is accurately controlled when dry-etching a...
7259104 Sample surface processing method  
A surface processing method of a sample having a mask layer that does not contain carbon as a major component formed on a substance to be processed, the substance being a metal, semiconductor and...
7232762 Method for forming an improved low power SRAM contact  
A method of forming contact openings in a semiconductor device including providing a semiconducting substrate; forming an etch stop layer on said semiconducting substrate; forming a dielectric...
7159536 Device and method for generating a local by micro-structure electrode dis-charges with microwaves  
Device for producing a plasma, in particular for treating surfaces, for chemically reacting gases, or for producing light, by way of microstructure electrode discharges, using a device for...
7111629 Method for cleaning substrate surface  
There is provided a surface cleaning apparatus and method using plasma to remove a native oxide layer, a chemical oxide layer, and a damaged portion from a silicon substrate surface, and...
7097782 Method of exposing a substrate to a surface microwave plasma, etching method, deposition method, surface microwave plasma generating apparatus, semiconductor substrate etching apparatus, semiconductor substrate deposition apparatus, and microwave plasma generating antenna assembly  
In certain implementations, methods and apparatus include an antenna assembly having at least two overlapping and movable surface microwave plasma antennas. The antennas have respective pluralities...
7097779 Processing system and method for chemically treating a TERA layer  
A processing system and method for chemically treating a TERA layer on a substrate. The chemical treatment of the substrate chemically alters exposed surfaces on the substrate. In one embodiment,...
7088047 Inductively coupled plasma generator having low aspect ratio  
An inductively coupled plasma generator having a lower aspect ratio reaction gas, comprising a chamber having a gas inlet through which a reaction gas is supplied, a vacuum pump for maintaining the...
7048869 Plasma processing apparatus and a plasma processing method  
In an oxide film etching process, a plasma having a suitable ratio of CF 3 , CF 2 , CF, F is necessary, and there is a problem in that the etching characteristic fluctuates with a temperature...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
6905626 Notch-free etching of high aspect SOI structures using alternating deposition and etching and pulsed plasma  
A method of preventing notching during a cyclical etching and deposition of a substrate with an inductively coupled plasma source is provided by the present invention. In accordance with the...
6852243 Confinement device for use in dry etching of substrate surface and method of dry etching a wafer surface  
A confinement device for operative arrangement within a substrate etching chamber, having a lower surface of the device generally arranged over a substrate outer top surface such that a gap-spacing...
6841201 Apparatus and method for treating a workpiece using plasma generated from microwave radiation  
An apparatus and method that generates plasma using a microwave radiation supply. The plasma is used to treat a surface of a workpiece at approximately atmospheric pressure. Plasma excites a...
6824699 Method of treating an insulting layer  
This invention relates to a method of heating an insulating layer, such as is found in semiconductor devices, in which a formation has been etched through a layer of resist comprising reactive...
6809019 Method for producing a semiconductor structure, and use of the method  
A method for producing a semiconductor structure includes applying at least one first layer, etching the first layer using a masking layer such that fences are produced, and, after removal of the...
6806038 Plasma passivation  
A method for forming a conductive trace on a substrate. The conductive trace is patterned with a photoresist mask and etched, thereby forming a polymer layer on a top surface and sidewalls of the...
6764606 Method and apparatus for plasma processing  
In a plasma processing apparatus according to the present invention, a gas inlet port and a discharge port are provided on a chamber for introducing and discharging gas into and from the chamber...
6730369 Device and method for plasma processing  
The vacuum processing chambers 31 of the plasma processing units 3 A and 3 B are connected to the transfer chamber 2 and the wafer W in the positioned state is transferred from the transfer...
6673722 Microwave enhanced CVD system under magnetic field  
An improved chemical vapor deposition or etching is shown in which cyclotron resonance and photo or plasma CVD cooperate to deposit a layer with high performance at a high deposition speed. The...
6660647 Method for processing surface of sample  
A surface processing method of a sample having a mask layer that does not contain carbon as a major component formed on a substance to be processed, the substance being a metal, semiconductor and...
6647994 Method of resist stripping over low-k dielectric material  
An improved and new process for photoresist stripping for use during fabrication of semiconductor integrated circuits, which use porous low-k dielectric materials, such as OSG or HSQ, as the...
6573190 Dry etching device and dry etching method  
A dry etching apparatus and method which can uniformly and stably generate a high-density plasma over a wide range, and can cope with increase of wafer diameter and making the pattern finer in etch...
6561198 Method and installation for treating a metal part surface  
In this method for the surface treatment of a metal part ( 12 ) for the purpose of deoxidizing it and/or cleaning it, a sealed chamber ( 16 ), in which the part to be treated is placed, is filled...
6558564 Plasma energy control by inducing plasma instability  
In the present invention, electron temperature is controlled by modifying the power delivered to the plasma by inducing or enhancing natural instabilities between the plasma and the power source....
6527968 Two-stage self-cleaning silicon etch process  
A process for etching a substrate 25 in an etching chamber 105, and simultaneously removing etch residue deposited on the surfaces of the walls 110 and components of the etching chamber 105....
6451217 Wafer etching method  
A wafer etching method wherein hydrogen gas, ammonia gas or mixed gas containing one of these gases is added to sulfur hexafluoride gas to suppress the occurrence of white turbidity on the surface...
6436304 Plasma processing method  
A plasma processing method using helicon wave excited plasma which makes it possible to control a degree of dissociation for a process gas by controlling the source power. In the plasma processing...
6435196 Impurity processing apparatus and method for cleaning impurity processing apparatus  
The present invention relates to an impurity processing apparatus in which impurities such as phosphorus, boron, or the like are doped in a semiconductor substrate, etc., or a PSG...
6391396 Chemical vapor deposition coating of fibers using microwave application  
Chemical vapor deposition coating is carried out in a cylindrical cavity. The fibers are heated by a microwave source that is uses a TM 0 N 0 mode, where O is an integer, and produces a field that...
6383918 Method for reducing semiconductor contact resistance  
A method is provided for reducing contact resistances in semiconductors. In the use of fluorocarbon plasmas during high selectively sub-quarter-micron contact hole etching, with the silicon...
6383403 Dry etching method  
A substrate to be etched is subjected to dry etching by using a dry etching gas containing a perfluorocycloolefin while a plasma with a high density region of at least 10 10 /cm 3 is generated. As...
6375860 Controlled potential plasma source  
The occurrence of internally-formed contaminants or negatively-charged particulates within a plasma is minimized by preventing such from becoming trapped in the plasma. The plasma is formed in a...
6372657 Method for selective etching of oxides  
An improved dry plasma cleaning process for the removal of native oxides, or other oxide films or growth residue, from openings formed in an insulating layer provided over a semiconductor...
6368517 Method for preventing corrosion of a dielectric material  
Method for removing or inactivating corrosion-forming etch residues remaining on the surface of a dielectric material after etching a metal layer which is supported by the dielectric material. The...
6361707 Apparatus and methods for upgraded substrate processing system with microwave plasma source  
An apparatus and methods for an upgraded CVD system that provides a plasma for efficiently cleaning a chamber, according to a specific embodiment. Etching or depositing a layer onto a substrate...
6348158 Plasma processing with energy supplied  
In a plasma processing method, a plasma is generated using a process gas, and an electron beam is injected into the plasma to control an electron energy distribution in the plasma. Then, a...
6329297 Dilute remote plasma clean  
A method and apparatus for enhancing the etch characteristics of a plasma formed in a remote plasma generator. A plasma formed in a remote plasma generator (27) is flown through a tube (62) to a...
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