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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2020
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Amrita B. Mullick, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abhijit Basu Mallick, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Srinivas Gandikota, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Susmit Singha Roy, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yingli Rao, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Regina Freed, Los Altos, CA (US);
Uday Mitra, Cupertino, CA (US);
APPLIED MATERIALS, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Processing methods to etch metal oxide films with less etch residue are described. The methods comprise etching a metal oxide film with a metal halide etchant, and exposing the etch residue to a reductant to remove the etch residue. Some embodiments relate to etching tungsten oxide films. Some embodiments utilize tungsten halides to etch metal oxide films. Some embodiments utilize hydrogen gas as a reductant to remove etch residues.