Designer atomic layer etching

KJ Kanarik - US Patent 10,566,212, 2020 - Google Patents
Methods for evaluating synergy of modification and removal operations for a wide variety of
materials to determine process conditions for self-limiting etching by atomic layer etching are …

Atomic layer etch, reactive precursors and energetic sources for patterning applications

A Lavoie, P Agarwal, P Kumar - US Patent 10,832,909, 2020 - Google Patents
Methods and apparatuses for patterning carbon-containing material over a layer to be
etched are provided herein. Methods involve trimming carbon-containing material by atomic …

Atomic layer etching 3D structures: Si and SiGe and Ge smoothness on horizontal and vertical surfaces

S Tan, W Yang, KJ Kanarik, T Lill, Y Pan - US Patent 10,727,073, 2020 - Google Patents
Methods and apparatuses for etching semiconductor material on substrates using atomic
layer etching by chemisorption, by deposition, or by both chemisorption and deposition …

Selective deposition with atomic layer etch reset

KS Reddy, MG Rainville, N Shankar… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
Methods are provided for conducting a deposition on a semiconductor substrate by
selectively depositing a material on the substrate. The substrate has a plurality of substrate …

Cobalt etch back

J Yang, B Zhou, M Shen, T Lill, J Hoang - US Patent 10,784,086, 2020 - Google Patents
Methods of etching cobalt on substrates are provided. Some methods involve exposing the
substrate to a boron-containing halide gas and an additive, and exposing the substrate to an …

Atomic layer etching of tantalum

KJ Kanarik, KIM Taeseung - US Patent 10,566,213, 2020 - Google Patents
Methods for evaluating synergy of modification and removal operations for a wide variety of
materials to determine process conditions for self-limiting etching by atomic layer etching are …

Etching substrates using ALE and selective deposition

S Tan, J Yu, R Wise, N Shamma, Y Pan - US Patent 10,685,836, 2020 - Google Patents
Methods of and apparatuses for processing substrates having carbon-containing material
using atomic layer etch and selective deposition are provided. Methods involve exposing a …

Dry plasma etch method to pattern MRAM stack

S Tan, KIM Taeseung, W Yang, J Marks… - US Patent 10,749,103, 2020 - Google Patents
Apparatuses for etching metal by depositing a material reactive with a metal to be etched
and a halogen to form a volatile species and exposing the substrate to a halogen-containing …

Control of directionality in atomic layer etching

A Fischer, T Lill, R Janek - US Patent 10,559,475, 2020 - Google Patents
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Method for manufacturing magnetic tunnel junction element, and inductively coupled plasma processing apparatus

M Yamada - US Patent 10,833,255, 2020 - Google Patents
There is provided a method for manufacturing a magnetic tunnel junction element which
prevents properties degradation due to hydrogen ions, and to which RIE processing that is …