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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 1993
Filed:
Feb. 22, 1990
Hideaki Iwano, Suwa, JP;
Tetsuya Seki, Suwa, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
A microwave ECR plasma etching method and apparatus employs a combination reactive gas medium supplied to a microwave excitation ECR plasma chamber coupled to a treatment chamber containing a Group II-VI sample to be etched. A reactive gas plasma is formed containing reactive species in the plasma chamber and the Group II-VI sample is irradiated with a beam of reactive species formed from the reactive gas plasma. The reactive gas medium is selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen halogenate, a mixture of a halogen gas and an inert gas, a mixture of a halogen gas and hydrogen gas, a mixture of a halogen gas, an inert gas and hydrogen gas, and a mixture of a halogen gas and nitrogen gas.