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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To remove smearing residue in an immersion lithography system. SOLUTION: The equipment for cleaning a semiconductor substrate comprises a chamber having an upper portion, a sidewall and a bottom opening where the upper portion is transparent to light of selected wavelength, an inlet and an outlet provided in the sidewall of the chamber, a plate extending outward from the bottom edge of the chamber, a set of concentric grooves formed in the bottom face of the plate and centering on the chamber, a means for applying vacuum to first and fourth grooves closest to the bottom opening of the chamber in the set of grooves, a means for supplying inert gas or vapor mixture of inert gas and solvent to a second groove between the first and fourth grooves and a fifth groove on the outside of the fourth groove in the set of grooves, and a means for supplying cleaning fluid to a third groove between the second and fourth grooves in the set of grooves. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable actual method for manufacturing an SOI device and a non-SOI device on one wafer, by forming an embedded injection region between stress interface regions formed in a wafer substrate, annealing a wafer, and covering the embedded injection reign into a separation region. SOLUTION: A wafer structure 300 comprises a substrate 310 and a stress interface region 320. The stress interface region 320 is formed by etching the surface of a wafer, oxidizing a layer, growing or sticking an oxide in the etched region, and polishing the surface of wafer. In addition, a displacement region 610 formed on an injection region and an embedded oxide region 620 are provided. The stress interface region 320 absorbs stresses which are normally related to a border between an SOI region and a non-SOI region, on the surface of the wafer structure 300, for enabling manufacture of both an SOI device and a non-SOI device, with allowable level of reliability.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and equipment in which the possibility of bringing immersion fluid from a clearance or other portion of a chuck onto the surface of a photoresist layer on a wafer is not high. SOLUTION: Equipment for holding a wafer and a method for immersion lithography. The equipment comprises a wafer chuck having a central circular vacuum platen, an outside region, and a circular groove centering on the vacuum platen. Upper surface of the vacuum platen is recessed below the upper surface of the outside region, and the layer surface of the groove is recessed below the upper part of the vacuum platen, one or more suction ports are provided in the lower surface of the groove, and a hollow toroidal bladder capable of expansion or contraction is arranged in the groove. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an improved method of forming a filled isolation region of a semiconductor substrate, and to provide a method of forming a semiconductor device, having the filled isolation region and cooling the device and giving body potential control. SOLUTION: A semiconductor structure and a method of forming the semiconductor structure are disclosed. The semiconductor structure includes a nanostructure or is manufactured by using the nanostructure. The method of forming the semiconductor structure includes the steps of generating the nanostructure, by using a nano mask and performing an additional semiconductor processing step by using the nanostructure thus generated. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for forming a field effect transistor having a channel length controlled favorably by applying a carbon nanotube. SOLUTION: The field effect transistor employs the vertically oriented carbon nanotube as a transistor body, the carbon nanotube being formed by deposition within a vertical aperture, with an optional combination of several parallel nanotubes to produce quantized current drive, and an optional change in a chemical composition of a carbon material at the top or at the bottom to suppress short channel effect. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance a CMOS device in latch up resistance, by a method wherein a side wall spacer/trough region is demarcated and formed by the use of hybrid photoresist which shows a positive-type, a negative type and an intermediate-type reaction to exposure light. SOLUTION: A gate oxide layer 2404 and a gate material layer 2406 are successively deposited on a wafer 2500, and side wall spacer troughs 2801 and 2802 are provided to the gate oxide layer 2404 and the gate material layer 2406 by the use of hybrid photoresist which shows a positive-type, a negative- type, and an intermediate-type reaction to exposure light. Three regions, a gate region 2804, a high source region 2806, and a high drain region 2808 are provided to the side wall spacer troughs 2801 and 2802, and a residual negative- type pattern 2526 and a residual hard mask layer 2408 are formed. By this setup, a CMOS device can be improved in latch-up resistance.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor element reducing a short channel effect. SOLUTION: An element has a trench 370 formed in a silicon substrate 305. The channel 380 of the element is formed on the bottom portion of the trench 370. Diffusion layers 310, 320 are formed adjacently to both sides of the trench 370 and are extended along the side walls of the trench 370 and under a part of the trench 370 to form diffusion extension parts 315, 325, whereby each diffusion layer is connected to each edge of the element channel.