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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 1984
Filed:
Feb. 01, 1983
Kenneth C Bopp, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Judith L Gooden, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Narayan M Kulkarni, Mesa, AZ (US);
GTE Communications Products Corporation, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Abstract
A method of fabricating CMOS integrated circuits including the ordered steps of: depositing a layer of phosphorus doped silicon oxide; heating the oxide layer at a temperature and duration sufficient to reflow and densify it; forming contact apertures in the oxide layer for exposing source and drain regions of transistors; and cleaning the wafer in an etchant solution for rounding off sharp edges on the oxide layer prior to contact metallization. In a preferred embodiment, all steps between forming contact apertures and through metallization are formed at a temperature that is lower than the temperature that will cause flow of the oxide layer.