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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:
Nov. 19, 1991
Filed:
Aug. 06, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael F Brady, Morrisville, PA (US);
John K Dorey, II, Fairless Hills, PA (US);
Aubrey L Helms, Jr, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ; H01L / ; H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
437229 ; 437225 ; 437228 ; 148D / ; 430275 ; 430276 ; 430311 ; 430313 ;
Abstract
An antireflection coating (21) for use in integrated circuit processing consists of a film of x-silicon-nitride, where x is a metal from the group consisting of titanium, vanadium, chromium, zirconium, niobium, molybdenum, hafnium, tantalum and tungsten. These coatings are preferably made by sputtering, with the x silicon nitride coating being made by sputtering in a nitrogen-containing atmosphere.