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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2000
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Hsin-chu, TW;
Abstract
A method for forming a dual damascene conductor interconnection layer within an inter-level metal dielectric (IMD) layer formed upon a substrate employed within a microelectronics fabrication. There is provided a substrate employed within a microelectronics fabrication. There is then formed over the substrate a series of conductor lines. There is then formed over the substrate a dielectric layer. There is then formed over the dielectric layer an intermediate second dielectric layer. There is then formed over the substrate a patterned photoresist etch mask layer. There is then etched the pattern of the photoresist etch mask-layer into and through the dielectric layers, followed by stripping the photoresist layer. There is then treated the exposed dielectric layer surface to a reactive gas to form a reacted surface layer. There may then be formed over the substrate additional patterned photoresist etch mask layers, with attenuated degradation of the dielectric layers due to the organic materials and methods for cleaning and stripping same.