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- Title
Anisotropic atomic layer etching of W using fluorine radicals/oxygen ion beam.
- Authors
Kim, Doo San; Kim, Ju Eun; Lee, Won Oh; Park, Jin Woo; Gill, You Jung; Jeong, Byeong Hwa; Yeom, Geun Young
- Abstract
Atomic layer etching (ALE) has advantages such as precise thickness control, high etch selectivity, and no‐increase in surface roughness which can be applied to sub 10 nm semiconductor device fabrication. In this study, anisotropic ALE of tungsten (W), which is used as an interconnect layer and gate material of semiconductor devices, was investigated by sequentially exposing to F radicals by NF3 plasma to form a WFy layer and following exposure to an oxygen ion beam to remove the WFy layer by forming volatile WOxFy at room temperature. A wide ALE window of F radical adsorption time of ( ≥ 10 s/cycle) and Ox+ ion desorption time of (10 ≤ t ≤ 50 s/cycle at + 44–51 eV of Ox+ ion energy) could be identified, and at the ALE conditions, a precise etch rate of ~2.6 Å/cycle was obtained while increasing the W etch depth linearly with increasing the number of etch cycles. At the optimized W ALE conditions, the W surface roughness after the W ALE was similar to the as‐received W and the etch selectivity over SiO2 was close to infinite. However, after the W ALE, ~ 10% F diffused into W was observed on the etched W surface, and which could be removed by a following process.
- Subjects
ION beams; SEMICONDUCTOR manufacturing; TUNGSTEN alloys; ION energy; SEMICONDUCTOR devices; SEMICONDUCTOR materials
- Publication
Plasma Processes & Polymers, 2019, Vol 16, Issue 9, pN.PAG
- ISSN
1612-8850
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ppap.201900081