Abstract:
The methods of forming a chemically adsorbed film by contacting a substrate with a solution mixture containing an alkoxysilane surface active agent, a non-aqueous solvent and a silanol-condensing catalyst to form a film covalently bonded to the substrate via siloxane bonds. These methods do not generate hydrochloric acid gas in forming the films and allow practical reaction rates.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit is formed containing a metal-oxide ferroelectric thin film. An inert-gas recovery anneal is conducted to reverse the degradation of ferroelectric properties caused by hydrogen. The inert-gas recovery anneal is conducted in an unreactive gas atmosphere at a temperature range from 300null to 1000null C. for a time period from one minute to two hours. Preferably, the metal-oxide thin film comprises layered superlattice material. Preferably, the layered superlattice material comprises strontium bismuth tantalate or strontium bismuth tantalum niobate. If the integrated circuit manufacture includes a forming-gas anneal, then the inert-gas recovery anneal is performed after the forming-gas anneal, preferably at or near the same temperature and for the same time duration as the forming-gas anneal. The inert-gas recovery anneal obviates oxygen-recovery annealing, and it allows continued use of conventional hydrogen-rich plasma processes and forming-gas anneals without the risk of permanent damage to the ferroelectric thin film. The unreactive gas atmosphere can contain a pure unreactive gas or a mixture of unreactive gases. The unreactive gas can be any relatively unreactive gas, such as nitrogen or argon.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a rubbing device including a base roller assembly that suspends and otherwise supports a base film to convey the same in one direction; a rubbing roller assembly that suspends and otherwise supports a rubbing cloth, and that moves the rubbing cloth in a direction opposite a conveying direction of the base film to thereby realize a rubbing treatment by contact between the rubbing cloth and the base film; and a rotating apparatus provided under the rubbing roller assembly and that rotates the entire rubbing roller assembly to a particular angle within the range of 0-180null in the clockwise or counterclockwise direction with respect to the conveying direction of the base film.
Abstract:
An article of manufacture produced by a method for electroless plating a metallic layer on the surface of a non-metallic substrate. The method comprises (a) exposing the non-metallic substrate to a solution comprising non-precious metal ions so as to obtain a non-metallic substrate covered with a layer of non-precious metal ions; and (b) exposing the covered non-metallic substrate obtained in step (a) to a reducing solution comprising a reducing agent capable of reducing the metal ions that cover the substrate from their oxidation state in step (a) to a lower oxidation state, preferably to zero valence state. In a preferred embodiment, metallization is accomplished by inducing precipitation of metal, e.g. copper, on the surface to be metallized (this effect also being referred to as nullplate-outnull), via decomposition of the electroless solution. The inventive process contrasts with the prior art, wherein electroless copper deposition is predominantly initiated or triggered through a Pc-bearing layer. Preferably, the non-precious metal ions used in step (a) are copper or nickel ions, whereas the plated metal is copper. The non-metallic substrate is made of insulating materials, for example organic polymers, silicon-containing materials, glass-epoxy composites and the like. The reducing agent is selected from a group consisting of borane compounds, e.g. dimethylamino borane (DMAB) and alkali metal or alkaline earth metal borohydrides.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a substrate processing method and a substrate processing apparatus which has reproducibility over a surface of a substrate such as a semiconductor wafer and between substrates and can manufacture semiconductor devices or the like with a high yield. According to the present invention, a substrate processing method of forming a protective film selectively on bottom surfaces and side surfaces or exposed surfaces of embedded interconnects formed in a surface of a substrate is characterized by performing a pre-plating process on the substrate, carrying out electroless plating on the surface of the substrate after the pre-plating process to form the protective film selectively on the bottom surfaces and the side surfaces or the exposed surfaces of the interconnects, and bringing the substrate into a dry state after the electroless plating.
Abstract:
The coating apparatus and method enable the coating liquid having been scraped-off to be reused without doing any one of the fluid adjusting treatment and the filtering treatment, while maintaining the features of the scraping-off type of extrusion coater, which is suitable for obtaining a uniform and extremely thin coating film. The coating head is provided with two slits: a coating slit and a recovering slit, and the excessive coating liquid having been discharged through the coating slit and applied to the web is scraped-off and recovered through the recovering slit.
Abstract:
An environmentally-friendly method is disclosed for transforming preserved wood, for example creosote-treated or CCA-treated wood with supercritical water. The product of treating weathered creosote-treated wood is a mixture that is similar to fresh creosote. The novel system is akin to a closed-loop system for recovering and rejuvenating creosote. In another aspect of the invention, acidic supercritical water is used to extract copper, chromium, and arsenic from CCA-treated wood, or more generally, to extract metals from an organic matrix.
Abstract:
A method of coating a substrate comprises immersing a surface portion of a substrate in a first phase comprising carbon dioxide and a coating component comprising a polymeric precursor; then withdrawing the substrate from the first phase into a distinct second phase so that the coating component is deposited on the surface portion; and then subjecting the substrate to conditions sufficient to polymerize the polymeric precursor and form a polymerized coating.
Abstract:
A device and method for fixing a tone image on a support material (22) uses solvent vapour. A directed stream (34) containing solvent vapour is produced, this stream being directed at a section of the support material (22) using a nozzle device (36).