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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 15, 1996
LAM Research Corporation, Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, in a plasma processing chamber, for etching through a selected portion of layers of a wafer stack, which comprises an anti-reflective layer and a metallization layer disposed below the anti-reflective layer. The method comprises the step of etching at least partially through the anti-reflective layer of the wafer stack with a first chemistry that comprises both an etchant chemical and a polymer-forming chemical. Further, the method comprises the step of etching at least partially through the metallization layer of the wafer stack with a second chemistry different from the first chemistry.
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