Tes Co., Ltd

Bong-Soo Kwon

Eun-Jin Song

Se-Woong Bae

Se-Chan Kim

Yu-Ri Park

Do-Hyun Kim

A method of processing a substrate on which films comprising a first silicon oxide film, a silicon nitride film and a second silicon oxide film are stacked from an outermost side, includes: a first etching step of etching the first silicon oxide film; and a second etching step of etching the silicon nitride film and the second silicon oxide film. In the first etching step, a residual layer of the first silicon oxide film is left. In the second etching step, the residual layer of the first silicon oxide film, the silicon nitride film and the second silicon oxide film are etched together.

Method of processing substrate

A substrate processing method, involving etching a silicon nitride layer selectively in a substrate where a silicon oxide layer and the silicon nitride layer are stacked, includes: wet-etching the silicon nitride layer with a phosphoric acid-based etching solution; and dry-etching a regrowth oxide, which is formed on a surface of the silicon oxide layer in the wet etching step, with an etching gas.

Substrate processing method

There is provided a method of processing a substrate comprising an ONO stack in which a silicon oxide layer and a silicon nitride layer are stacked alternately and repeatedly on the substrate. The method includes: (a) primarily dry-etching silicon nitride layers of the ONO stack; (b) producing oxygen radicals and processing silicon oxide layers of the ONO stack with the oxygen radicals; and (c) secondarily dry-etching the silicon nitride layers of the ONO stack.

The present invention relates to a substrate processing method for selectively etching a silicon nitride layer on a substrate on which silicon oxide layers and silicon nitride layers are alternately stacked, the method including plasma etching the silicon nitride layers using plasma of a plurality of gases, wherein the plurality of gases include a first gas containing fluorine excluding nitrogen trifluoride (NF) and a second gas containing hydrogen, and the etch profile in the thickness direction of the silicon nitride layers is controlled by adjusting the atomic ratio of fluorine to hydrogen included in the plurality of gases.

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Yongin-si, South Korea

Bong-Soo Kwon