[HTML][HTML] Plasma processing for advanced microelectronics beyond CMOS

N Marchack, L Buzi, DB Farmer, H Miyazoe… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The scientific study of plasma discharges and their material interactions has been crucial to
the development of semiconductor process engineering and, by extension, the entire …

[HTML][HTML] Optical emission intensity overshoot and electron heating mechanisms during the re-ignition of pulsed capacitively coupled Ar plasmas

K Hernandez, A Press, MJ Goeckner… - Journal of Vacuum …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Phase resolved optical emission spectroscopy (PROES) measurements were combined with
measurements of the optical emission intensity (OEI) and electrical characteristics (RF …

Comprehensive understanding of the ignition process of a pulsed capacitively coupled radio frequency discharge: The effect of power-off duration

XY Wang, JR Liu, YX Liu, Z Donko… - Plasma Sources …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The effect of the pulse-off duration on the time evolution of the plasma and electrical
parameters during the ignition phase in a pulsed capacitively coupled radio frequency argon …

Radially-dependent ignition process of a pulsed capacitively coupled RF argon plasma over 300 mm-diameter electrodes: multi-fold experimental diagnostics

ZX Su, DH Shi, YX Liu, K Zhao, F Gao… - … Sources Science and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
A synergistic combination of multi-diagnostic methods are proposed to investigate temporal
evolution of electrical and plasma parameters at various radial positions over 300 mm …

Dynamics of Ar metastable and resonance states in pulsed capacitively coupled plasmas

AS Kovalev, TV Rakhimova, AT Rakhimov… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The experimental and theoretical study of radiofrequency capacitively coupled plasma
discharge afterglow has been carried out. Temporal dynamics of Ar metastable and …

Electron temperature measurements with a hairpin resonator probe in a pulsed low pressure capacitively coupled plasma

D Peterson, Y Xiao, K Ford, P Kraus… - … Sources Science and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Electron temperature is measured from time resolved hairpin resonator probe
measurements in a pulsed capacitively coupled argon plasma at 400 mTorr. Effective …

Two-dimensional fluid simulation of pulsed-power inductively coupled Ar/H2 discharge

JH Cha, KS Seo, J Jeong, HJ Lee - Journal of Physics D: Applied …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In low-temperature Ar/H 2 discharge used for material processing, the main factor
influencing the film quality is the active species responsible for surface reactions, such as …

Sidewall chemical analysis of plasma-etched nano-patterns using tilted X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy combined with in-situ ion sputtering

J Lee, HW Lee, KH Kwon - Applied Surface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
A novel experimental technique for sidewall analysis of plasma-etched nano-patterns using
tilted X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) combined with in-situ ion sputtering was …

Temporal evolution of plasma characteristics in synchronized dual-level RF pulsed capacitively coupled discharge

FF Ma, QZ Zhang, J Schulze, JY Sun… - … Sources Science and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Plasma parameters (electron density, electron temperature and relative light intensity) often
follow an unstable state at the initial pulse stage in pulsed radio frequency discharges. For …

Effect of a dielectric cavity on the ion etching of dielectrics by electron beam-produced plasma generated by a forevacuum plasma electron source

DB Zolotukhin, EM Oks, AV Tyunkov, EV Yakovlev… - Vacuum, 2021 - Elsevier
We show that etching of a dielectric (quartz) target by ions from the beam-plasma formed
using a forevacuum-pressure, plasma-cathode electron source is substantially greater when …