DEVICE FOR PLASMA-CHEMICAL TREATMENT OF SEMICONDUCTOR WAFERS Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: plasma-chemical treatment of wafers and integrated circuit manufacture.

SUBSTANCE: proposed device that can be used in photolithography for photoresist removal and radical etching of various semiconductor layers in integrated circuit manufacturing processes has activation chamber made in the form of insulating pipe with working gas admission branch; inductor made in the form of inductance coil wound on part of pipe outer surface length and connected to high-frequency generator; reaction chamber with gas evacuating pipe, shielding screens disposed at pipe base, and temperature-stabilized substrate holder mounted in chamber base. In addition device is provided with grounded shield made in the form of conducting nonmagnetic cylinder that has at least one notch along its generating line and is installed between inductor and pipe; shielding screens of device are made in the form of set of thin metal plates arranged in parallel at desired angle to substrate holder within cylindrical holder whose inner diameter is greater than maximal diameter of wafers being treated. Tilting angle, quantity, and parameters of wafers are chosen considering the transparency of gas flow screen and ability of each wafer to overlap another one maximum half its area. In addition substrate holder is spaced maximum four and minimum 0.6 of pipe inner diameter from last turn of inductance coil; coil turn number is chosen to ensure excitation of intensive discharge in vicinity of inductor depending on generator output voltage and on inner diameter of pipe using the following equation:

where n is inductance coil turn number; U is generator output voltage, V; D_p is inner diameter of pipe, mm.

EFFECT: enhanced speed and quality of wafer treatment; reduced cost due to reduced gas and power requirement for wafer treatment.

1 cl, 6 dwg, 1 tbl