• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1997년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집; 한국전력공사 서울연수원; 17-18 Oct. 1997
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• pp.664-667
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• 1997

For higher component density per chip, it is necessary to identify and control the semiconductor manufacturing process more stringently. Recently, neural networks have been identified as one of the most promising techniques for modeling and control of complicated processes such as plasma etching process. Since wafer states after each run using identical recipe may differ from each other, conventional neural network models utilizing input factors only cannot represent the actual state of process and equipment. In this paper, in addition to the input factors of the recipe, real-time tool data are utilized for modeling of 64M DRAM s-poly plasma etching process to reflect the actual state of process and equipment. For real-time tool data, we collect optical emission spectroscopy (OES) data. Through principal component analysis (PCA), we extract principal components from entire OES data. And then these principal components are included to input parameters of neural network model. Finally neural network model is trained using feed forward error back propagation (FFEBP) algorithm. As a results, simulation results exhibit good wafer state prediction capability after plasma etching process.

• 한국재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국재료학회 2009년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.44.2-44.2
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• 2009

Polycrystalline materials suchas yttria and alumina have been applied as a plasma resisting material for the plasma processing chamber. However, polycrystal line material may easily generate particles and the particles are sources of contamination during the plasma enhanced process. Amorphous material can be suitable to prevent particle generation due to absence of grain-boundaries. We manufactured nitrogen-containing $SiO_2-Al_2O_3-Y_2O_3$ based glasses with various contents of silicon and fixed nitrogen content. The thermal properties, mechanical properties and plasma etching rate were evaluated and compared for the different composition samples. The plasma etching behavior was estimated using XPS with depth profiling. From the result, the plasma etching rate highly depends on the silicon content and it may results from very low volatile temperature of SiF4 generated during plasma etching. The silicon concentration at the plasma etched surface was very low besides the concentration of yttrium and aluminum was relatively high than that of silicon due to high volatile temperature of fluorine compounds which consisted with aluminum and yttrium. Therefore, we conclude that the samples having low silicon content should be considered to obtain low plasma etching rate for the plasma resisting material.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제16권11호
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• pp.98-105
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• 1999

As the IC(Integrated Circuit) has been densified and complicated, it is required to thorough process control to improve yield. Experts, for this purpose, focused on the process analysis automation, which is came from the strict data management in semiconductor manufacturing. In this paper, we presents the process analysis system that can analyze causes, for a output after processes. Also, the plasma etching process that highly affects yield among semiconductor process is modeled to predict a output before the process. To approach this problem, we use adaptively trained neural networks that exhibit superior accuracy over statistical techniques. And in comparison with methods in other paper, a method that history of trend for input data is considered is shown to offer advantage in both learning and prediction capability. This research regards CD(Critical Dimension) that is considerable in high integrated circuit as output variable of the prediction model.

• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.13-17
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• 2000

ECR (Electron Cyclotron Resonance) 식각 공정에 따른 층간 절연막 폴리이미드의 전기적 특성에 관하여 연구하였다. 알루미늄 식각시 일반적으로 사용되는 $Cl_2$플라즈마는 폴리이미드의 유전상수 값을 증가시킨 반면에 $SF_{6}$플라즈마의 경우는 높은 식각률과 유전상수 값의 감소를 가져왔다. 폴리이미드의 누설 전류는 ECR 식각 공정 후에 감소되었다. 다중 금속화 구조를 구현하는데 있어 $Cl_2$플라즈마를 사용하여 알루미늄을 식각하고 $SF_{6}$ 플라즈마를 사용하여 폴리이미드를 식각하는 것이 최적일 것으로 판단된다.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.144-147
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• 2011

In this work, we present a study regarding the etching characteristics on titanium nitride (TiN) thin films using an inductively coupled plasma system. The TiN thin film was etched using a $N_2/BCl_3$/Ar plasma. The studied etching parameters were the gas mixing ratio, the radio frequency (RF) power, the direct current (DC)-bias voltages, and the process pressures. The baseline conditions were as follows: RF power = 500 W, DC-bias voltage = -150 V, substrate temperature = $40^{\circ}C$, and process pressure = 15 mTorr. The maximum etch rate and the selectivity of the TiN to the $SiO_2$ thin film were 62.38 nm/min and 5.7, respectively. The X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy results showed no accumulation of etching byproducts from the etched surface of the TiN thin film. Based on the experimental results, the etched TiN thin film was obtained by the chemical etching found in the reactive ion etching mechanism.

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.113-116
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• 2008

반도체 소자 집적도의 비약적인 발전으로 인하여 반도체 공정은 더욱 다층화 되어가고 있다. 이러한 다층화 공정에서는 필수적으로 여러 단계의 패턴을 형성하기 위하여 Photoresist(PR)를 이용한 식각 공정을 사용하게 된다. 이러한 식각 공정에서 다단계 식각 공정으로 인한 공정시간 증가와 식각 후 남은 잔여 PR residue는 초고집적화된 현 반도체 산업에서는 소자에 치명적인 문제를 발생시킨다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 기존 PR strip 용액을 플라즈마에 의하여 액체 상태로 활성화하여 기존의 건식세정법과 습식세정법을 동시에 사용하여 PR을 효과적으로 제거하기 위한 방법을 연구하였다. 플라즈마에 의하여 약액을 활성화하기 위하여 먼저 플라즈마 약액활성화를 위한 장치를 simulation하여 실험 장치에서 균일한 gas흐름을 확인하였다. 이후 플라즈마의 세기를 0V에서 100V까지 증가시켜 약액을 활성화한 후 PR을 strip하여 각 플라즈마 세기에서의 식각률을 조사하였으며 80V에서 가장 빠른 식각률을 나타났다. 또한 0V와 80V의 Dilution에 대한 영향을 확인하였으며 약액을 Dilution 후에도 식각률은 더욱 향상됨을 확인할 수 있었다. 이러한 세정 시간의 단축은 여러 단계의 식각 공정 시간을 단축하여 반도체 공정에서 소자 생산을 위한 시간을 단축하게 된다. 또한 각 세정공정마다 증가한 세정 공정으로 인하여 세정액의 사용이 많아져 세정액 폐수로 인한 환경문제가 심각해지고 있다. 세정 약액 활성화 방법을 사용함으로써 세정액의 절감효과가 나타난다.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기물성ㆍ응용부문C
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• 제55권12호
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• pp.601-605
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• 2006

The resistance-capacitance (RC) delay of signals through interconnection materials becomes a big hurdle for high speed operation of semiconductors which contain multi-layer interconnections in smaller scales with higher integration density. Low-k materials are applied to the inter-metal dielectric (IMD) materials in order to overcome the RC delay. Relaxation continuum (RCT) model that includes neutral-species transport model have developed to model the etching process in a capacitively coupled plasma (CCP) device. We present the parametric study of the modeling results of a two-frequency capacitively coupled plasma (2f-CCP) with $N_2/H_2$ gas mixture that is known as promising one for organic low-k materials etching. For the etching of low-k materials by $N_2/H_2$ plasma, N and H atoms have a big influence on the materials. Moreover the distributions of excited neutral species influence the plasma density and profile. We include the neutral transport model as well as plasma one in the calculation. The plasma and neutrals are calculated self-consistently by iterating the simulation of both species till a spatio-temporal steady state profile could be obtained.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.307-312
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• 2014

We present a full finite element analysis for plasma discharge in etching process of semiconductor circuit. The charge transport equations of hydrodynamic diffusion-drift model and the electric field equation were numerically solved in a fully coupled system by using a standard finite element procedure for transient analysis. The proposed method was applied to a real plasma reactor in order to characterize the plasma sheath that is closely related to the yield of the etching process. Throughout the plasma discharge analysis, the base electrode of reactor was tested and modified for improving the uniformity around the wafer edge. The experiment and numerical results were examined along with SEM data of etching quality. The feasibility and usefulness of the proposed method was shown by both numerical and experimental results.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2011년도 제40회 동계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.284-284
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• 2011

Recently, the increasing degree of device integration in the fabrication of Si semiconductor devices, etching processes of nano-scale materials and high aspect-ratio (HAR) structures become more important. Due to this reason, etch selectivity control during etching of HAR contact holes and trenches is very important. In this study, The etch selectivity and etch rate of TEOS oxide layer using ACL (amorphous carbon layer) mask are investigated various process parameters in CH2F2/C4F8/O2/Ar plasma during etching TEOS oxide layer using ArF/BARC/SiOx/ACL multilevel resist (MLR) structures. The deformation and etch characteristics of TEOS oxide layer using ACL hard mask was investigated in a dual-frequency superimposed capacitively coupled plasma (DFS-CCP) etcher by different fHF/ fLF combinations by varying the CH2F2/ C4F8 gas flow ratio plasmas. The etch characteristics were measured by on scanning electron microscopy (SEM) And X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analyses and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). A process window for very high selective etching of TEOS oxide using ACL mask could be determined by controlling the process parameters and in turn degree of polymerization. Mechanisms for high etch selectivity will discussed in detail.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 1998년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.131-134
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• 1998

This work was carried out to develop a pattern on the nanometer scale using plasma polymerization and plasma etching. This study is also aimed at developing a resist for the nano process and a vacuum lithography process. The thin films of plasma polymerization were fabricated by the plasma po1ymerization of inter-electrode capacitively coupled gas flow system. After delineating the pattern at accelerating voltage of 30[kV]. ranging the dose of 1∼500[${\mu}$C/$\textrm{cm}^2$], the pattern was developed with dry tree and formed by plasma etching. By analysing of the molecule structure using FT-lR, it was confirmed that the thin films of PPMST contains the functional radicals of the MST monomer. The thin films of PPMST had a highly crosslinked structure resulting in a higher molecule weight than the conventional resist.