Plasma-therm, Inc.

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Ken Mackenzie

Gordon M Grivna

Russell Westerman

Linnell Martinez

David Pays-Volard

Rich Gauldin

Jason Michael Doub

Dwarakanath Geerpuram

Thierry Lazerand

David J Johnson

Shouliang Lai

The present invention provides a method for plasma dicing a substrate. The method comprising: providing a process chamber having a wall; providing a plasma source adjacent to the wall of the process chamber; providing a work piece support within the process chamber; placing the substrate on a carrier support to form a work piece; providing an intermediate ring interposed between the substrate and the frame; loading the work piece onto the work piece support; generating a plasma through the plasma source; and etching the work piece through the generated plasma.

Method and apparatus for plasma dicing a semi-conductor wafer

The present invention provides a method of etching features in a substrate. The method comprising the steps of placing the substrate on a substrate support in a vacuum chamber. An alternatingly and repeating process is performed on the substrate until a predetermined trench depth and a predetermined sidewall angle are achieved. One part of the process is a deposition step which is carried out by introducing at least one polymer containing gas into the vacuum chamber. A plasma is ignited from the polymer containing gas which is then used to deposit a polymer on the substrate. The other part of the alternatingly and repeating process is an etching step which is carried out by introducing an etchant containing gas, a polymer containing gas and a scavenger containing gas into the vacuum chamber. A plasma is ignited from the etchant containing gas, the polymer containing gas and the scavenger containing gas which is then used to etch the substrate.

Method for plasma etching of positively sloped structures

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Ken Mackenzie