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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. 22, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 08, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Chia-Chieh Yu, Taipei, TW;
Assignee:
United Semiconductor Corp., Hsinchu, TW;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
438700 ; 438710 ; 438733 ;
Abstract
A method for removing a photoresist. A substrate having a wire on the substrate and a flowable oxide layer over the substrate and a patterned photoresist over the flowable oxide layer is provided. A plasma etching step is performed by using an additional gas mixed with oxygen as a source to remove the photoresist layer.