The challenges of advanced CMOS process from 2D to 3D

HH Radamson, Y Zhang, X He, H Cui, J Li, J Xiang… - Applied Sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
The architecture, size and density of metal oxide field effect transistors (MOSFETs) as unit
bricks in integrated circuits (ICs) have constantly changed during the past five decades. The …

Microelectronic method for etching a layer

N Posseme, O Joubert, L Vallier - US Patent 9,570,317, 2017 - Google Patents
(71) Applicants: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE(Continued) ATOMIQUE ET AUX
ENERGIES(52) US Cl ALTERNATIVES, Paris (FR): CPC. H0IL 21/31116 (2013.01); HOIL …

Driving frequency fluctuations in pulsed capacitively coupled plasmas

J Poulose, M Goeckner, S Shannon, D Coumou… - The European Physical …, 2017 - Springer
We report time resolved measurements of the RF current, voltage and complex impedance
for pulsed plasmas through electropositive (Ar) and electronegative (CF 4, O 2) gases and …

Electron-impact-ionization dynamics of

JN Bull, JWL Lee, C Vallance - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
A detailed understanding of the dissociative electron ionization dynamics of SF 6 is
important in the modeling and tuning of dry-etching plasmas used in the semiconductor …

Experimental and numerical investigations on time-resolved characteristics of pulsed inductively coupled O2/Ar plasmas

C Xue, DQ Wen, W Liu, YR Zhang, F Gao… - Journal of Vacuum …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
The time-resolved characteristics of pulsed inductively coupled O 2/Ar plasmas have been
investigated in this paper, by means of a Langmuir probe and a global model. The plasma …

Time-resolved spatial distribution measurements of pulse-modulated argon plasmas in an inductively coupled plasma reactor

JH Park, DH Kim, YS Kim… - Plasma Sources Science …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The time variation of the plasma parameters along with their spatial distributions were
measured in pulse-modulated (PM) inductively coupled argon plasma via the phase delay …

[图书][B] Plasma Etching Processes for CMOS Devices Realization

N Posseme - 2017 - books.google.com
Plasma etching has long enabled the perpetuation of Moore's Law. Today, etch
compensation helps to create devices that are smaller than 20 nm. But, with the constant …

Modeling of low pressure plasma sources for microelectronics fabrication

A Agarwal, K Bera, J Kenney… - Journal of Physics D …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Chemically reactive plasmas operating in the 1 mTorr–10 Torr pressure range are widely
used for thin film processing in the semiconductor industry. Plasma modeling has come to …

Effect of plasma dissociation on fluorocarbon layers formed under C4F8/Ar pulsed plasma for SiO2 etching

M Matsui, T Usui, T Ono - Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigated the effects of gas pressure on the dissociation of C 4 F 8/Ar plasma and the
formations of fluorocarbon layers on etched materials by SiO 2 etching using pulsed …

Temporal evolution of two-dimensional electron temperature and ion flux on a substrate in a pulsed-power inductively coupled plasma

I Park, DH Kim, KH Kim, CW Chung - Physics of Plasmas, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
The two-dimensional temporal behavior of plasma was investigated at the wafer-level when
applied power was turned on/off, which is one cycle of the pulsed plasma. For the …