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Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2023

Filed:

Aug. 12, 2020
Applicant:

Tokyo Electron Limited, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Masahiro Tabata, Miyagi, JP;

Masahiro Tadokoro, Miyagi, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/311 (2006.01); B32B 3/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/31116 (2013.01); B32B 3/10 (2013.01); H01L 21/31144 (2013.01); Y10T 428/24802 (2015.01);
Abstract

A substrate includes an etching target film as a target of etching and a first film. The first film is formed on the etching target film and is made of a material having an etching rate smaller than an etching rate of the etching target film. The first film has multiple first openings formed at a first distance therebetween in one direction of a surface of the first film. The first film has a second opening formed at an outside of the multiple first openings in the one direction while being spaced apart from an outermost one of the first openings by a second distance equivalent to the first distance. The second opening has a width larger than a width of the first openings and a depth smaller than a depth of the first openings.


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