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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 1996
Filed:
May. 02, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Manfred Hain, Zorneding, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
216 67 ; 216 77 ; 252 791 ;
Abstract
Aluminiferous structures having a sidewall angle greater than or equal to zero are produced by the addition of a volatile hydrocarbon to the etching gas mixture in a plasma etching process. The volatile hydrocarbon promotes the sidewall passivation, so that extremely fine structures can be anisotropically etched. Given aluminum-copper alloys, moreover, the formation of etching residues that contain copper and are not easily volatilized is also prevented.