• Plasma etching is a form of plasma processing used to fabricate integrated circuits. It involves a high-speed stream of glow discharge (plasma) of an appropriate...
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    etchants are liquid-phase ("wet") and plasma-phase ("dry"). Each of these exists in several varieties. The first etching processes used liquid-phase ("wet")...
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  • strength. The primary methods currently used in industry are sodium etching and plasma etching. Results of ion beam treatment and laser surface roughening have...
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    wet etching, and use plasma etching instead. Plasma etchers can operate in several modes by adjusting the parameters of the plasma. Ordinary plasma etching...
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    response of plasma to electromagnetic fields is used in many modern devices and technologies, such as plasma televisions or plasma etching. Depending on...
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    Reactive-ion etching (RIE) is an etching technology used in microfabrication. RIE is a type of dry etching which has different characteristics than wet etching. RIE...
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  • techniques include: Plasma activation Plasma ashing Plasma cleaning Plasma electrolytic oxidation Plasma etching Plasma functionalization Plasma polymerization...
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  • residues by oxygen plasmas is sometimes correctly described as a dry etch process. The term plasma ashing can be used instead. Dry etching is particularly...
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    thin metal films onto semiconductors. Tetrafluoromethane, is used for plasma etching in semiconductor manufacturing, flat panel display production, and...
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  • sputtering, plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD)) and etching. Inductively coupled plasma Multipactor effect Plasma etching UK Wireless Telegraphy...
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  • representing the available ionic species. Plasma etching Plasma Processing: Proceedings of the Symposium on Plasma Processing. Electrochemical Society. 1987...
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  • three categories: Plasma etching systems (RIE, ICP, DRIE) Plasma deposition systems (PECVD and LS-CVD®) Surface treatment systems (plasma cleaners, UV-Ozone...
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  • used today is called plasma etching. Plasma etching usually involves an etch gas pumped in a low-pressure chamber to create plasma. A common etch gas is...
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    was while he was at Hewlett Packard that he saw the need for better plasma etching equipment, to keep up with the rapid miniaturization of semiconductor...
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    each net is disconnected from the initial global metal layer, and the plasma etching is still adding charges to each piece of metal. Leaky gate oxides, although...
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    Marshall's acid (H2S2O8) Peroxymonosulfuric acid, or Caro's acid (H2SO5) Plasma etching RCA clean (silicon wafer cleaning procedure) Superhydrophilicity Ultrahydrophobicity...
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  • from MIT, Lam worked on plasma etching research and engineering at Texas Instruments and Hewlett-Packard. Although plasma etching was widely used in R&D...
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  • easily by oxygen, fluorine, chlorine and other reactive gases used in plasma etching. Use of a hardmask involves an additional deposition process, and hence...
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    desired shape. Other names for chemical etching include photo etching, chemical etching, photo chemical etching and photochemical machining. It is mostly...
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    coupled plasma Induction plasma technology Pulsed inductive thruster High density fluorocarbon etching of silicon in an inductively coupled plasma: Mechanism...
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  • both make use of helicons in their plasma heating phase). Helicons are also utilized in the procedure of plasma etching, used in the manufacture of computer...
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    Dry etching (plasma etching) Reactive-ion etching (RIE) Deep reactive-ion etching (DRIE) Atomic layer etching (ALE) Plasma ALE Thermal ALE Wet etching Buffered...
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    removed. Etching techniques include: Dry etching (plasma etching) such as reactive-ion etching (RIE) or deep reactive-ion etching (DRIE) Wet etching or chemical...
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  • in liquid-, gas- or plasma-phase, although liquid etchants such as buffered hydrofluoric acid (BHF) for silicon dioxide etching are more often used....
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  • durable protecting layer in future ion implantation, wet chemical etching, or plasma etching. From preparation until this step, the photolithography procedure...
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    through, this smear must be removed by a chemical de-smear process, or by Plasma etching. The de-smear process ensures that a good connection is made to the...
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  • time-multiplexed etching, alternates repeatedly between two modes to achieve nearly vertical structures: A standard, nearly isotropic plasma etch. The plasma contains...
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    shareholder in the company. Naura has four business lines: Semiconductors (plasma etching, PVD, CVD, oxidation/diffusion, cleaning system, and annealing) Vacuum...
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    Research in Shanghai alleging infringement of trade secrets related to plasma etching equipment. In March 2017, the court sided in favour of AMEC but Lam...
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  • usually carried out by chemical etching of the covering, laser cutting, laser evaporation of the covering, plasma etching or mechanical removal of the cover...
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