Kioxia Corporation

Toshiba Memory Corporation

Yuya Matsubara

Atsuko Sakata

Masayuki Kitamura

Soichi Yamazaki

Kei Watanabe

Toshiyuki Sasaki

Mitsuhiro Omura

Junichi Hashimoto

Kosuke Horibe

Shunsuke Ochiai

Takehiro Kondoh

Masumi Saitoh

Takuya Hirohashi

Hiroshi Kubota

Junichi Wada

Shinichi Nakao

Yusuke Oshiki

Harumi Seki

Kazunori Harada

Hiromichi Kuriyama

Yusuke Kondo

Kaori Narumiya

Junya Fujita

A substrate processing apparatus includes a chamber to accommodate a substrate. The apparatus includes a stage to support the substrate in the chamber. The apparatus includes an electrode disposed above the stage and containing aluminum. The electrode generates plasma from gas supplied into the chamber to form a first film on the substrate by the plasma. The apparatus further includes a second film formed on a surface of the electrode and containing aluminum and fluorine or containing aluminum and oxygen.

Substrate processing apparatus and method of producing semiconductor device

A method for producing a semiconductor device includes forming, on a substrate, a film to be processed. The method further includes forming, on the film to be processed, a first film containing a metallic element and a second film containing at least one of carbon or boron. The method further includes forming an insulating film on the first and second films. The method further includes processing the film to be processed using the first film, the second film, and the insulating film, as a mask.

Method for producing semiconductor device

A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus according to the present embodiment includes a first gas feeder, a first gas processor and a second gas feeder. The first gas feeder is provided above a stage on which a substrate is to be placed and feeds a first gas to the substrate. The first gas processor supplies high frequency power to the stage and renders the first gas fed from the first gas feeder into plasma. The second gas feeder is provided above the stage and feeds a second gas more difficult to render into plasma than the first gas to an outer periphery of the first gas having been rendered into plasma.

Semiconductor manufacturing apparatus and manufacturing method of semiconductor device

According to one embodiment, an electrostatic chuck apparatus includes a substrate support plate formed of a dielectric material. The substrate support plate includes: a plurality of support bases protruding from an upper surface of the substrate support plate, a plurality of ground electrodes formed inside the substrate support plate, each of the ground electrodes at a corresponding position to a respective one the support bases, and an electrostatic chuck electrode provided below the ground electrodes.

Electrostatic chuck apparatus and semiconductor manufacturing apparatus

According to one embodiment, a gas recovering apparatus includes a casing and a tube. The casing is provided with an inlet through which a gas flows in, a first outlet for discharging a first gas containing a gas to be recovered of the gas, and a second outlet for discharging a second gas other than the first gas of the gas. The casing is evacuated via the first outlet. The tube is provided in the casing from the inlet to the second outlet, and has a high permeability to the first gas and a low permeability to the second gas.

Gas recovering apparatus, semiconductor manufacturing system, and gas recovering method

A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: forming a first film on a substrate; forming a second film containing at least carbon on the first film; forming a hole in the second film; and forming a recess, which communicates with the hole, in the first film by etching using the second film as a mask. In this method, the second film includes a first layer formed on the first film, and a second layer formed on the first layer. The first layer having a higher oxygen concentration than the second layer.

Method for manufacturing semiconductor device having a film with layers of different concentrations of elements

According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first film on a substrate. The method further includes forming a second film on the first film. The method further includes forming a recess in the first film using the second film as a mask. The second film includes a first layer having carbon and a second layer having carbon formed on the first layer. The second layer has a second carbon density lower than a first carbon density of the first layer.

Manufacturing method of semiconductor device

A mask member contains tungsten (W), boron (B), and carbon (C). The mask member includes a first portion in contact with a process film, the first portion, in which the terms of the composition ratio, which correspond to boron and carbon, are larger than the term of the composition ratio, which corresponds to tungsten, and a second portion in which the term of the composition ratio, which corresponds to tungsten, is larger than the terms of the composition ratio, which correspond to carbon and boron.

Mask member and method for producing semiconductor device

In one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a stacked film on a substrate. The method further includes forming, on the stacked film, a mask layer formed of a tungsten compound and including impurity atoms having a concentration of 1.0&#xd7;10atoms/cmor more. The method further includes etching the stacked film using the mask layer as an etching mask.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device

According to one embodiment, a variable resistance element includes first and second conductive layers and a first layer. The first conductive layer includes at least one of silver, copper, zinc, titanium, vanadium, chrome, manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, tellurium, or bismuth. The second conductive layer includes at least one of platinum, gold, iridium, tungsten, palladium, rhodium, titanium nitride, or silicon. The first layer includes oxygen and silicon and is provided between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. The first layer includes a plurality of holes. The holes are smaller than a thickness of the first layer along a first direction. The first direction is from the second conductive layer toward the first conductive layer. The first layer does not include carbon, or a composition ratio of carbon included in the first layer to silicon included in the first layer is less than 0.1.

Variable resistance element and memory device

According to one embodiment, a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a mask layer on a layer to be etched, the mask layer containing tungsten and boron, a composition ratio of the tungsten being not less than 30%, patterning the mask layer, and performing a dry etching to the layer to be etched using the mask layer being patterned, and forming a hole or a slit in the layer to be etched.

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Yuya Matsubara