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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 1989
Filed:
Sep. 11, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jun Kanamori, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
437 47 ; 437 60 ; 437 52 ; 437203 ; 437228 ; 437919 ; 357236 ; 357 67 ;
Abstract
In a process for fabricating a semiconductor device having a trench at the surface of a semiconductor substrate, a first mask layer is formed to have an opening whose side is set back from an area where the trench will be formed, a second mask layer is formed on the side of the opening of the first mask layer with an opening corresponding to the area where the trench will be formed, and an etching is performed using the first and the second mask layer as a mask to form the trench.