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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 09, 1999
Bhanwar Singh, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Bharath Rangarajan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ursula Q. Quinto, San Jose, CA (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A reverse lithographic process is provided for more densely packing semiconductors onto a semiconductor wafer. A semiconductor wafer having deposited a number of layers of semiconductor materials has a photoresist deposited which is patterned with the spaces as lines, and then developed and trimmed. A polymer is deposited over the space photoresist structures and, when hardened, is subject to planarizing to expose the photoresist. The photoresist is removed leaving a reverse image polymer which is then used as a mask to anisotropically etch the spaces to form the closely spaced devices.