Nec Corporation

Anelva Corporation

Kiyotaka Sakamoto

Toshiyuki Hirota

Shuji Fujiwara

Supika Mashiro

In a method for forming a cylindrical capacitor lower plate in a semiconductor device, a first insulating film, a first conducting film and a second insulating film are formed on a principal surface of a semiconductor substrate in the named order. A patterned photoresist film is formed on the second insulating film, and the second insulating film is patterned by an anisotropic etching using the photoresist film as a mask. After the photoresist film is removed, the first conducting film is patterned by an etching using the patterned second insulating film as a mask. Thereafter, a second conducting film is deposited on a whole surface, and then, the second conducting film is anisotropically etched so that a remaining second conducting film is left on a side surface of the patterned first conducting film. The patterned second insulating film is removed, so that the remaining second conducting film is left in the form of a sidewall which is upright from a periphery of the patterned first conducting film.

Method for forming cylindrical capacitor lower plate in semiconductor

An apparatus for controlling the voltage applied to an electrostatic clamp enables a substrate removing method capable of rapidly, securely and safely removing a substrate regardless of the presence of a dielectric material on the back surface of the substrate to be processed. Before the substrate supported on an electrode by electrostatic clamping is removed, the potential difference between the substrate and the electrode is made zero, and plasma generation is then stopped. The apparatus for controlling the applied voltage has a circuit for detecting the maximum high-frequency voltage (Vpp) for generating a plasma, an operation circuit for computing the self-bias voltage (Vdc) from the maximum high-frequency voltage (Vpp), and an output control circuit for controlling the DC voltage output from a DC power source based on the self-bias voltage (Vdc).

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Kiyotaka Sakamoto