Lam Research Corporation

Da Li

Jengyi Yu

Samantha S H Tan

Jun Xue

Yang Pan

Boris Volosskiy

Daniel Peter

Timothy William Weidman

Mary Anne Manumpil

Samantha Siamhwa Tan

Yiwen Fan

Younghee Lee

Richard Stephan Wise

Jeffrey S Marks

Patrick A Van Cleemput

Samantha SiamHwa Tan

Richard Alan Gottscho

Wenbing Yang

Nader Shamma

Liu Yang

Alexander Kabansky

Katie Lynn Nardi

Chen-Wei Liang

Ge Yuan

Samantha Sh Tan

Andrew Liang

Ji Yeon Kim

Hongxiang Zhao

Michelle Margarita Flores Espinosa

Development of resists are useful, for example, to form a patterning mask in the context of high-resolution patterning. Development can be accomplished using a halide-containing chemistry such as a hydrogen halide. A metal-containing resist film may be deposited on a semiconductor substrate using a dry or wet deposition technique. The resist film may be an EUV-sensitive organo-metal oxide or organo-metal-containing thin film resist. After exposure, the photopatterned metal-containing resist is developed using wet or dry development.

Photoresist development with halide chemistries

Provided are processes for development of photopatterned metal or metal oxide-based thin film photoresists post-EUV exposure for removal of non-volatile species and deterring etch stop. Repeated cycles of alternating treatment with an etchant and an oxidizing agent; or treatment with an etchant followed by treatment with a wash agent are effective techniques for removal of the undesired unexposed portion of a photoresist.

Cyclic development of metal oxide based photoresist for etch stop deterrence

Process condition management facilitates the combination of dry development and etching into a single process chamber; eliminating the necessity for a post-dry development bake step during semiconductor manufacturing. Methods and apparatuses for rapidly instituting a large drop in process chamber pressure allow thermal dry development and an Oflash treatment or thermal dry development and plasma hardmask open operations to take place without wafer transfer.

Integration of dry development and etch processes for EUV patterning in a single process chamber

This disclosure relates generally to a patterning structure including an underlayer and an imaging layer, as well as methods and apparatuses thereof. In particular embodiments, the underlayer provides an increase in radiation absorptivity and/or patterning performance of the imaging layer.

Underlayer for photoresist adhesion and dose reduction

Provided herein are methods and systems for reducing roughness of an EUV resist and improving etched features. The methods involve descumming an EUV resist, filling divots of the EUV resist, and protecting EUV resists with a cap. The resulting EUV resist has smoother features and increased selectivity to an underlying layer, which improves the quality of etched features. Following etching of the underlying layer, the cap may be removed.

Atomic layer etch and selective deposition process for extreme ultraviolet lithography resist improvement

A method for selectively etching a silicon oxide region with respect to a lower oxygen silicon containing region is provided. A sacrificial mask selectively deposited on the lower oxygen silicon containing region with respect to the silicon oxide region. An atomic layer etch selectively etches the silicon oxide region with respect to the sacrificial mask on the lower oxygen silicon containing region.

Selective etch using a sacrificial mask

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