Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Comp. Ltd.

Eric Tsai

Yi-Lung Cheng

Ying-Lung Wang

Mo-Chen Liao

Sze-Au Wu

A method and reactant gas bypass system for carrying out a plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) process with improved gas flow stability to avoid unionized reactant precursors and thickness non-uniformities the method including providing a semiconductor process wafer having a process surface within a plasma reactor chamber for carrying out at least one plasma process; supplying at least one reactant gas flow at a selected flow rate to bypass the plasma reactor chamber for a period of time to achieve a pre-determined flow rate stability; and, redirecting the at least one reactant gas flow into the plasma reactor chamber to carry out the at least one plasma process.

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Yunlin, Taiwan

Eric Tsai