International Business Machines Corporation

Lnternational Business Machines Corporation

John Patrick Simons

Wayne Martin Moreau

Kenneth John McCullough

Charles Jesse Taft

John Michael Cotte

Keith Randal Pope

Dario Leonardo Goldfarb

Richard Paul Volant

Karen Elizabeth Petrillo

David Robert Medeiros

Qinghuang Lin

Marie Angelopoulos

Katherina E Babich

David Earle Seeger

Robert J Purtell

Edward D Babich

Douglas Charles LaTulipe

Jesse Stephen Jur

Kevin Shawn Petrarca

William Alfred Syverson

Matteo Flotta

Pamela E Jones

Katherine Lynn Saenger

Christopher Vincent Jahnes

Satyanarayana Venkata Nitta

Donald J Delehanty

Catherine Ivers

A surface cleaning apparatus comprising a chamber, and a thermal transfer device. The chamber is capable of holding a semiconductor structure therein. The thermal transfer device is connected to the chamber. The thermal transfer device has a surface disposed inside the chamber for contacting the semiconducting structure and controlling a temperature of the semiconductor structure in contact with the surface. The thermal transfer device has a thermal control module connected to the surface for heating and cooling the surface to thermally cycle the surface. The thermal control module effects a substantially immediate thermal response of the surface when thermally recycling the surface.

Apparatus and method for the rapid thermal control of a work piece in liquid or supercritical fluid

Multilayered resist structures including bilayer and top surface imaging which utilize tuned underlayers functioning as ARCs, planarizing layers, and etch resistant hard masks whose properties such as optical, chemical and physical properties are tailored to give a multilayer resist structure exhibiting high resolution, residue free lithography and methods of preparing these materials.

Multilayered resist systems using tuned polymer films as underlayers and methods of fabrication thereof

A dielectric material formed by contacting a low dielectric constant polymer with liquid or supercritical carbon dioxide, under thermodynamic conditions which maintain the carbon dioxide in the liquid or supercritical state, wherein a porous product is formed. Thereupon, thermodynamic conditions are changed to ambient wherein carbon dioxide escapes from the pores and is replaced with air.

Dielectric material

Disclosed are multilayered resist structures including bilayer and top surface imaging which utilize tuned underlayers functioning as ARCs, planarizing layers, and etch resistant hard masks whose properties such as optical, chemical and physical properties are tailored to give a multilayer resist structure exhibiting high resolution, residue free lithography and methods of preparing these materials. These underlayer films include the group consisting of novolac based resists whose processing conditions are controlled, polyarylsulfones such as the BARL material, polyhydroxystyrene based derivatives, an example being a copolymer of polyhydroxystyrene and polyhydroxystyrene reacted with anthracenemethanol that contains a cross-linker, and acid catalyst (thermal acid generator), polyimides, polyethers in particular polyarylene ethers, polyarylenesulfides, polycarbonates such as polyarylenecarbonates, epoxies, epoxyacrylates, polyarylenes such as polyphenylenes, polyarylenevinylenes such as polyphenylenevinylenes, polyvinylcarbazole, cyclicolefins, and polyesters. Such films have index of refraction and extinction coefficient tunable from about 1.4 to about 2.1 and from about 0.1 to about 0.6 at UV and DUV wavelengths, in particular 365, 248, 193 and 157 nm and EUV. Moreover, underlayer films produced in the present invention do not interact with the resist limiting interfacial mixing and contamination of resist by an outgassing product. The bilayer and TSI resist structures can be used for 248, 193, 157, EUV, x-ray, e-beam, and ion beam technology.

A composition which includes liquid or supercritical carbon dioxide and an acid having a pKa of less than about 4. The composition is employed in a process of removing residue from a precision surface, such as a semiconductor sample, in which the precision surface is contacted with the composition under thermodynamic conditions consistent with the retention of the liquid or supercritical carbon dioxide in the liquid or supercritical state.

Process of removing residue from a precision surface using liquid or supercritical carbon dioxide composition

A method for cleaning a semiconductor structure including providing a chamber for holding the semiconductor structure and a dense phase fluid, providing a thermal transfer device having a thermal transfer surface, connecting the thermal transfer device to the chamber, placing the semiconductor structure in the chamber in contact with the thermal transfer surface and thermally cycling the thermal transfer surface.

Method for the rapid thermal control of a work piece in liquid or supercritical fluid

Methods are provided for making microfilters by subtractive techniques which remove a component or part of a filter material to form pores in the filter material and additive techniques which deposit a filter material onto a porous underlying substrate. All the methods employ a supercritical fluid or mixture which have very high solvency properties and low viscosity and COis the preferred supercritical fluid.

Method to build a microfilter

Process of insulating a semiconductor device using a polymeric material

Apparatus and method for rapid thermal control of a workpiece in liquid or dense phase fluid

The present invention provides an apparatus for cleaning a workpiece with a cleaning medium that is maintained at a single fluid phase. The apparatus comprises means for providing the cleaning medium; a pressurizable cleaning vessel for receiving the cleaning medium and the workpiece; and means for maintaining a single fluid phase of the cleaning medium in the cleaning vessel. The present invention further provides a process for cleaning the workpiece with cleaning medium under conditions such that the workpiece is exposed to a single fluid phase of the cleaning medium. The present invention further includes a process for a storage media that includes instructions for controlling a processor for the process of the present invention. The storage media comprises means for controlling the processor to control contacting conditions of the workpiece and the cleaning medium such that the workpiece is exposed to a single fluid phase of the cleaning medium.

Apparatus and process for supercritical carbon dioxide phase processing

A method and apparatus are provided for in situ monitoring and analyzing of process parameters for semiconductor fabrication processes including cleaning semiconductor wafers utilizing a supercritical fluid or a high pressure liquid such as CO. The method and apparatus utilize a spectrometer having a reflective mirror proximate the vessel holding the high pressure fluid. NIR radiation transmitted into the vessel through a window and out of the vessel through an opposed window is reflected and detected and measured and the composition of the fluid in the pressure vessel is determined allowing the user to control process parameters based on the measured composition.

Method of in situ monitoring of supercritical fluid process conditions

A process of removing residue from an etched precision surface. In this process the etched precision surface is contacted with a composition which includes liquid or supercritical carbon dioxide and a fluoride-generating species.

Process of removing residue material from a precision surface

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