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1 March 1991 Oxygen reactive ion etching of polymers: profile evolution and process mechanisms
Wolfgang Pilz, Joachim Janes, Karl Paul Muller, Joachim Pelka
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Proceedings Volume 1392, Advanced Techniques for Integrated Circuit Processing; (1991) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.48905
Event: Processing Integration, 1990, Santa Clara, CA, United States
Abstract
Oxygen plasmas either in a reactive ion etching reactor or in a reactive ion beam etcher are used to demonstrate the capability to produce sub-half-micron features in photoresists with high aspect ratios in multi-level technique. Lower local etch rates for structures with increasing aspect ratios are evaluated. The geometry limited flux of neutrals into the structures leads to decreasing etch rates of the bottom resist with increasing aspect ratio. The role of sidewall passivation films for highly anisotropic etching is discussed. Sidewall passivation films are extremely stable with respect to further processing. Even highly reactive plasmas are not able to remove the passivating films completely. In all our experiments of re sist patterning in 02-plasmas we saw that highly anisotropic etching works only with a sidewall passivating layer.
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Wolfgang Pilz, Joachim Janes, Karl Paul Muller, and Joachim Pelka "Oxygen reactive ion etching of polymers: profile evolution and process mechanisms", Proc. SPIE 1392, Advanced Techniques for Integrated Circuit Processing, (1 March 1991); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.48905
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KEYWORDS
Etching

Reactive ion etching

Ions

Oxygen

Plasmas

Carbon

Polymers

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