Study of selective etching of TaN with respect to SiOCH dielectrics using SiF4 plasma processes

I Otto IV, C Valleé - Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
TaN is used as a Cu diffusion barrier during metal interconnect formation to enable modern
chip fabrication. In this study, the selective removal of TaN with respect to SiOCH dielectrics …

Reactor wall effects in Si–Cl2–Ar atomic layer etching

JR Vella, MAI Elgarhy, Q Hao, VM Donnelly… - Journal of Vacuum …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
This work complements our previous manuscript [J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 41, 062602 (2023)]
where predictions from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of silicon–chlorine–argon (Si …