Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method of fabricating self-aligned contact pad using chemical mechanical polishing process
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Application No.: US11525490Application Date: 2006-09-23
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Publication No.: US07670942B2Publication Date: 2010-03-02
- Inventor: Ho-Young Kim , Chang-Ki Hong , Bo-Un Yoon , Joon-Sang Park
- Applicant: Ho-Young Kim , Chang-Ki Hong , Bo-Un Yoon , Joon-Sang Park
- Applicant Address: KR Suwon-Si
- Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Suwon-Si
- Agency: F. Chau & Associates, LLC
- Priority: KR10-2005-0090761 20050928
- Main IPC: H01L21/4763
- IPC: H01L21/4763

Abstract:
A method of fabricating a self-aligned contact pad (SAC) includes forming stacks of a conductive line and a capping layer on a semiconductor substrate, spacers covering sidewalls of the stacks, and an insulation layer filling gaps between the stacks and exposing the top of the capping layer, etching the capping layer to form damascene grooves, forming a plurality of first etching masks with a material different from that of the capping layer to fill the damascene grooves without covering the top of the insulation layer, and forming a second etching mask having an opening region that exposes some of the first etching masks and a portion of the insulation layer located between the first etching masks. The method further includes etching the portion of the insulation layer exposed by the opening region using the first and second etching masks to form a plurality of opening holes, removing the second etching mask, forming a conductive layer filling the opening holes to cover the remaining first etching masks and performing a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process on the conductive layer using the capping layer as a polishing end point to remove the first etching masks such that a plurality of SAC pads separated from each other are formed that fill the opening holes.
Public/Granted literature
- US20070072407A1 Method of fabricating self-aligned contact pad using chemical mechanical polishing process Public/Granted day:2007-03-29
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