WO1998019332A1 - Procede de gravure a sec - Google Patents
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- WO1998019332A1 WO1998019332A1 PCT/JP1997/003968 JP9703968W WO9819332A1 WO 1998019332 A1 WO1998019332 A1 WO 1998019332A1 JP 9703968 W JP9703968 W JP 9703968W WO 9819332 A1 WO9819332 A1 WO 9819332A1
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H10—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- H10P—GENERIC PROCESSES OR APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF DEVICES COVERED BY CLASS H10
- H10P50/00—Etching of wafers, substrates or parts of devices
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H10—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- H10P—GENERIC PROCESSES OR APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF DEVICES COVERED BY CLASS H10
- H10P50/00—Etching of wafers, substrates or parts of devices
- H10P50/60—Wet etching
- H10P50/64—Wet etching of semiconductor materials
- H10P50/642—Chemical etching
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H10—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- H10P—GENERIC PROCESSES OR APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF DEVICES COVERED BY CLASS H10
- H10P50/00—Etching of wafers, substrates or parts of devices
- H10P50/20—Dry etching; Plasma etching; Reactive-ion etching
- H10P50/28—Dry etching; Plasma etching; Reactive-ion etching of insulating materials
- H10P50/282—Dry etching; Plasma etching; Reactive-ion etching of insulating materials of inorganic materials
- H10P50/283—Dry etching; Plasma etching; Reactive-ion etching of insulating materials of inorganic materials by chemical means
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- the present invention relates to a dry etching method. More specifically, the present invention relates to a dry etching method capable of performing high-speed etching and exhibiting good selectivity to a protective film such as a photoresist and polysilicon.
- a dry etching method capable of performing high-speed etching and exhibiting good selectivity to a protective film such as a photoresist and polysilicon.
- Dry etching technology is being improved daily as a very important technology for forming such fine patterns for high integration on a silicon wafer.
- gas containing a large amount of fluorine atoms has been used as an etching gas in order to generate reactive species including fluorine by plasma discharge or the like.
- fluorine-containing etching gas include highly-fluorinated gases such as carbon tetrafluoride, sulfur hexafluoride, nitrogen trifluoride, carbon trifluoride bromide, trifluoromethane, hexafluoromethane, and propane octafluoride.
- highly-fluorinated gases such as carbon tetrafluoride, sulfur hexafluoride, nitrogen trifluoride, carbon trifluoride bromide, trifluoromethane, hexafluoromethane, and propane octafluoride.
- Compounds are mentioned.
- Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. HEI 4-17026 discloses that the temperature of a substrate to be etched is set at 50 ° C. by using a gas containing an unsaturated fluorocarbon such as perfluoropropene or perfluorobutene. A technique for etching a silicon compound while controlling the temperature to not more than ° C is disclosed. In addition, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No.
- 4-25811 / 17 discloses cyclic saturated compounds such as perfluorocyclopropane, perfluorocyclobutane, perfluorocyclobutene, and perfluorocyclopentene.
- cyclic saturated compounds such as perfluorocyclopropane, perfluorocyclobutane, perfluorocyclobutene, and perfluorocyclopentene.
- a technique of performing etching using a gas containing cyclic unsaturated fluorocarbon while similarly controlling the temperature of the substrate to be etched to 50 ° C. or lower.
- An object of the present invention is to provide high selectivity to a photoresist and a protective film such as polysilicon and to perform high-speed etching in view of the state of the prior art as described above.
- An object of the present invention is to provide a dry etching method capable of achieving a good etching effect without forming a film.
- the present inventors have repeatedly performed dry etching of a silicon compound using a dry etching gas containing various perfluorocycloolefins, and as a result, generated plasma in a high-density region of 1 O io cm ⁇ 3 or more. It has been found that dry etching at high speed has high speed, high selectivity to photoresist and high selectivity to polysilicon, and can achieve good etching without forming a polymer film.
- dry etching at high speed has high speed, high selectivity to photoresist and high selectivity to polysilicon, and can achieve good etching without forming a polymer film.
- the dry etching gas containing perfluorocycloolefin used in the present invention may be any gas as long as fluorine radicals are generated by plasma in dry etching, and the number of carbon atoms of perfluorocycloolefin is as follows. Although not particularly limited, it is usually 3 to 8, preferably 4 to 6, and most preferably 5.
- perfluorocycloolefin examples include perfluorocycloprobene, perfluorocyclobutene, perfluorocyclopentene, perfluorocyclohexene, and perfluorocyclohexene. Heptene, perfluorocyclooctene, perfluoro-1-methylcyclobutene, perfluoro-3-methylcyclobutene, perfluoro-1-methylcyclopentene, perfluoro-3-methylcyclopentene, and the like.
- perfluorocyclobutene perfluorocyclopentene, perfluorocyclohexene, perfluoro-1-methylcyclobutene, perfluoro-3-methylcyclobutene, perfluoro-1-methylcyclopentene, perfluoro-3-methylcyclopentene, and the like are preferable.
- Orocyclopentene is most preferred.
- These perfluorocycloolefins can be used alone or in combination of two or more.
- a perfluoroolefin other than perfluorocycloolefin that is, a linear unsaturated perfluorocarbon, and Z or perfluoroalkane and no or perfluorocycloalkane are used in combination.
- the purpose of the present invention cannot be achieved if a large amount of these fluorocarbons used in combination is used in large amounts. Therefore, the amount is usually 30% by weight or less of the total amount of fluorocarbons, preferably Is 20% by weight or less, more preferably 10% by weight or less.
- a fluorine-containing fluorocarbon can be used in combination with the above-mentioned fluorocycloolefin.
- the hydrofluorocarbon gas is not particularly limited as long as it has volatility, but usually, at least half of the hydrogen atoms of a linear, branched or cyclic saturated hydrocarbon are replaced with fluorine. Selected from compounds.
- saturated hydrofluorocarbon gases include, for example, trifluoromethane, pentafluoroethane, tetrafluoroethane, hepfluorofluoropropane, hexafluoropropane, pentafluorofluoropropane, nonafluorobutane, o Fluorobutane, Hepofurobutane, Hexafluorobutane, Pendekafluoropentane, Decafluoropentane, Nonafluoropentane, Okuyu Fluoropentane, Trideka fluohexane, Dodecafluo hexane, Pendekafluo Mouth hexane, heptafluorocycl
- the amount of the hydrofluorocarbon gas used in combination with the perfluorocyclorefin depends on the degree of the effect of the gas on the material to be etched, but is usually 50 mol% or less, preferably less than 50 mol%, based on the perfluorocarbon. 30 mol% or less.
- the above-mentioned dry etching gas may contain various other gases generally used as a dry etching gas, if necessary. Examples of such a gas include oxygen gas, nitrogen gas, argon gas, hydrogen gas, chlorine gas, carbon monoxide gas, carbon dioxide gas, nitrogen oxide gas, and sulfur oxide gas. Oxygen and carbon dioxide gas are preferred, and oxygen is most preferred. These additive gases may be used alone or in combination of two or more.
- the amount of gas to be added depends on the degree of the effect of the gas on the material to be etched, but is usually a dry etching gas containing perfluorocycloolefin. It is selected within a range of 40 parts by weight or less, preferably 3 to 25 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight.
- the substrate to be etched is a substrate such as a glass substrate, a silicon single crystal wafer, or gallium-arsenic provided with a thin film layer of a material to be etched.
- the material to be etched include silicon oxide, silicon nitride, aluminum, tungsten, molybdenum, tantalum, titanium, chromium, chromium oxide, and gold.
- a silicon wafer provided with a silicon oxide or aluminum thin film is preferably used.
- the protective film provided thereon include photoresist and polysilicon.
- plasmas irradiated at the time of etching are generated in a high-density region of 1 Oiocm- 3 or more.
- the plasma density is too low, the particularly high etching rate, high photoresist selectivity, and polysilicon selectivity that the present invention aims at cannot be achieved, and a polymer film is formed by deposition. In many cases, this is undesirable.
- the pressure at the time of etching the gas composition containing the gas for dry etching and other gas used in combination as required does not need to be selected in a special range.
- the gas composition is introduced into the etching apparatus degassed at a pressure of about 10 torr to 10-5 torr. Preferably 10 torr to: L 0 -3 torr.
- the ultimate temperature of the substrate to be etched is usually in the range of 0 ° C. to about 300 ° C., preferably 60 ° C. to 250 ° C., and more preferably 80 ° C. to 200 ° C. is there.
- etching is preferably performed without substantially controlling the attained temperature of the substrate to be etched.
- "etching without substantial control" means that the temperature of the substrate to be etched is within ⁇ 30% when the temperature of the substrate to be etched is not controlled at all, preferably ⁇ 30%. This refers to performing etching at a temperature within 20%, more preferably within ⁇ 10%.
- the temperature is usually set to a temperature of 60 ° C to about 250 ° C, more preferably 80 ° C to 200 ° C. The range allows high-speed etching while maintaining high selectivity to polysilicon and selectivity to photoresist.
- the dry etching at a low temperature promotes the polymerization of perfluorocycloolefin and avoids the deposition of the produced polymer on the substrate.
- the etching time is about 10 seconds to 10 minutes.
- high-speed etching is generally possible, so that it is preferably 10 seconds to 3 minutes from the viewpoint of improving productivity.
- Helicon wave type plasma etching apparatus I one 4 1 0 0 SH type, Aneru Ba Co., Ltd.
- PR photoresist
- P o 1 y _ Si A silicon wafer having a diameter of 150 mm with one of the films formed on the surface is set, the system is evacuated, and an etching gas composition containing perfluorocycloolefin is added. The flow was introduced at a flow rate of 50 sccm. Fluorescent cyclopentene was used as perfluorocyclorefin.
- the experiment was performed under the conditions of different plasma densities shown in Table 1 while maintaining the pressure in the system at 5 mm Torr and changing the electrical energy for plasma generation. At this time, the temperature of the wafer was not controlled, but increased to about 130 ° C. in all the examples.
- the etching time was selected in the range of 15-60 seconds.
- the measurement of the etching rate was performed at a total of five points including the center of the wafer and measurement points of 35 mm and 65 mm from both sides from the center along the diameter of the wafer.
- the etching rate at each measurement point under each condition (the etching rate at the above five measurement points on the wafer diameter was sequentially set to the etching rate—1 to the etching rate—15) was measured. Further, the same etching silicon oxide on the condition (S i 0 2), photoresist Bok (PR), by comparison Etsu quenching rate of polysilicon (P o 1 y- S i) , versus photoresist selectivity etching and The selectivity to polysilicon was evaluated. Selectivity was calculated from the following equation.
- Table 1 shows the etching conditions and evaluation results.
- the type of the used wafer is as follows.
- Example 1 A 150 mm diameter silicon wafer having a silicon oxide film formed on its surface was set in a parallel plate type reactive ion etching plasma etching system (Tokyo Electron, TE 5000 S). Dry etching was performed in the same manner as in 4. However, some of the etching conditions were changed as follows.
- Dry etching was carried out in the same manner as in Examples 1 to 9, except that the perfluorocycloolefin contained in the etching gas composition was changed to carbon tetrafluoride. The results are shown in Table 2.
- Etching was carried out in the same manner as in Examples 1 to 9 except that the perfluorocycloolefin contained in the gas composition for dry etching was changed to octafluorocyclobutane. The results are shown in Table 3.
- a polymer film is formed by deposition by generating plasma in a high-density region and dry-etching the substrate to be etched using a gas for dry etching containing perfluorocycloolefin.
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| US09/297,070 US6383403B1 (en) | 1996-10-30 | 1997-10-30 | Dry etching method |
| DE69737237T DE69737237T2 (de) | 1996-10-30 | 1997-10-30 | Verfahren zur trockenätzung |
| EP97909705A EP0964438B1 (en) | 1996-10-30 | 1997-10-30 | Dry etching method |
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| JP30581896 | 1996-10-30 |
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| US (1) | US6383403B1 (ja) |
| EP (1) | EP0964438B1 (ja) |
| KR (1) | KR100490968B1 (ja) |
| DE (1) | DE69737237T2 (ja) |
| TW (1) | TW403955B (ja) |
| WO (1) | WO1998019332A1 (ja) |
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| KR100490968B1 (ko) | 2005-05-24 |
| DE69737237D1 (de) | 2007-02-22 |
| EP0964438B1 (en) | 2007-01-10 |
| KR20000052977A (ko) | 2000-08-25 |
| TW403955B (en) | 2000-09-01 |
| EP0964438A1 (en) | 1999-12-15 |
| US6383403B1 (en) | 2002-05-07 |
| DE69737237T2 (de) | 2007-05-24 |
| EP0964438A4 (en) | 2000-02-02 |
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