Atomic layer etching: An industry perspective

CT Carver, JJ Plombon, PE Romero… - ECS Journal of Solid …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper provides an industry perspective on atomic layer etching (ALEt) process. Two
process sequences representing two different methods of ALEt are described, followed by …

Plasma processing of low-k dielectrics

MR Baklanov, JF de Marneffe, D Shamiryan… - Journal of Applied …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents an in-depth overview of the present status and novel developments in
the field of plasma processing of low dielectric constant (low-k) materials developed for …

Toward successful integration of porous low-k materials: Strategies addressing plasma damage

K Lionti, W Volksen, T Magbitang… - ECS Journal of Solid …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The increasing sensitivity of porous low dielectric constant materials to process damage
constitutes a major roadblock to their implementation in back-end-of-the-line (BEOL) wiring …

Influence of the content of polymethyl methacrylate on the properties of porous Si3N4 ceramics fabricated by digital light processing

YR Wu, C Tian, JM Wu, HL Huang, CL Liu, X Lin… - Ceramics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Porous Si 3 N 4 ceramics are highly regarded as ideal materials for radomes due to their
unique characteristics. However, the slurry used for the preparation of porous Si 3 N 4 …

Inherent selective pulsed chemical vapor deposition of aluminum oxide in nm scale

Y Cho, J Huang, Z Zhang, K Wang, P Lee, C Kim… - Applied Surface …, 2023 - Elsevier
Inherent selective pulsed chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of aluminum oxide on Si and SiO
2 in preference to SiCOH has been studied. SiCOH is alkyl (-C x H y) terminated SiO 2 …

Inherently selective water-free deposition of titanium dioxide on the nanoscale: implications for nanoscale patterning

Y Cho, CF Ahles, JY Choi, J Huang, A Jan… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Water-free inherent selective deposition of TiO2 on Si and SiO2 in preference to SiCOH has
been studied via atomic layer deposition (ALD) and pulsed chemical vapor deposition …

Inherent selective pulsed chemical vapor deposition of amorphous hafnium oxide/titanium oxide nanolaminates

Y Cho, J Huang, CF Ahles, Z Zhang, K Wong… - Applied Surface …, 2022 - Elsevier
Water-free Inherent selective pulsed chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of HfO 2/TiO 2
nanolaminates on Si and SiO 2 in preference to SiCOH has been studied. SiCOH is highly …

Ultralow-k Amorphous Boron Nitride Film for Copper Interconnect Capping Layer

K Kim, H Kim, SW Lee, MY Lee, G Lee… - … on Electron Devices, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report the feasibility of ultralow-amorphous boron nitride (-BN) film as a new capping
layer for copper (Cu) interconnects.-BN thin films were successfully deposited using a …

Hybrid low dielectric constant thin films for microelectronics

W Volksen, K Lionti, T Magbitang, G Dubois - Scripta Materialia, 2014 - Elsevier
The fabrication of future interconnects in integrated circuits requires insulators with
decreasing dielectric constants in order to maintain or improve the electrical performance of …

Ultralow dielectric constant SiCOH films by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition of decamethylcyclopentasiloxane and tetrakis (trimethylsilyloxy) silane …

Y Park, H Lim, S Kwon, W Ban, S Jang, D Jung - Thin Solid Films, 2021 - Elsevier
In semiconductor industry, SiCOH films with low dielectric constant (relative dielectric
constant k≤ 4.0) have been widely used as inter-metal dielectric (IMD) materials in the …