Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for increasing pattern density in self-aligned patterning schemes without using hard masks
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Application No.: US15089961Application Date: 2016-04-04
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Publication No.: US09786503B2Publication Date: 2017-10-10
- Inventor: Angelique D. Raley , Nihar Mohanty , Akiteru Ko
- Applicant: Tokyo Electron Limited
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
- Current Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.
- Main IPC: H01L21/302
- IPC: H01L21/302 ; H01L21/461 ; C03C15/00 ; C03C25/68 ; C23F1/00 ; B44C1/22 ; H01L21/033 ; H01L21/311 ; H01L21/027 ; H01L21/02

Abstract:
Provided is a method for increasing pattern density of a structure using an integration scheme and perform pitch splitting at the resist level without the use of hard mandrels, the method comprising: providing a substrate having a patterned resist layer and an underlying layer comprising a silicon anti-reflective coating layer, an amorphous layer, and a target layer; performing a resist hardening process; performing a first conformal spacer deposition using an atomic layer deposition technique with an oxide, performing a spacer first reactive ion etch process and a first pull process on the first conformal layer, performing a second conformal spacer deposition using titanium oxide; performing a second spacer RIE process and a second pull process, generating a second spacer pattern; and transferring the second spacer pattern into the target layer, wherein targets include patterning uniformity, pulldown of structures, slimming of structures, aspect ratio of structures, and line width roughness.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160300718A1 METHOD FOR INCREASING PATTERN DENSITY IN SELF-ALIGNED PATTERNING SCHEMES WITHOUT USING HARD MASKS Public/Granted day:2016-10-13
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