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Notching Phenomena of Silicon Gate Electrode in Plasma Etching Process  

Lee, Won Gyu (Department of Chemical Engineering, Kangwon National University)
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Applied Chemistry for Engineering / v.20, no.1, 2009 , pp. 99-103 More about this Journal
Abstract
HBr and $O_2$ in $Cl_2$ gas ambient for the high density plasma gate etching has been used to increase the performance of gate electrode in semiconductor devices. When an un-doped amorphous silicon layer was used for a gate electrode material, the notching profile was observed at the outer sidewall foot of the outermost line. This phenomenon can be explained by the electron shading effect: i.e., electrons are captured at the photoresist sidewall while ions pass through the photoresist sidewall and reach the oxide surface at a narrowly spaced pattern during the over etch step. The potential distribution between gate lines deflects the ions trajectory toward the gate sidewall. In this study, an appropriate mechanism was proposed to explain the occurrence of notching in the gate electrode of un-doped amorphous silicon.
Keywords
notching; ion trajectory; gate; high density plasma; silicon etching;
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