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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2000
Yin-Pin Wang, Kaohsiung, TW;
Chung-Ju Lee, Hsinchu Hsien, TW;
Wen-Jya Liang, Hsinchu, TW;
Jhy-Weei Hsia, Taipei Hsien, TW;
Fu-Liang Yang, Tainan, TW;
Yuh-Sheng Chern, Hsinchu, TW;
Vanguard International Semiconductor Corp., Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
A method for manufacturing a shallow trench isolation structure. A pad oxide layer and a mask layer are formed over a substrate. Portions of the mask layer, the pad layer and substrate are removed forming a trench. Oxidation of the substrate within the trench forms a linear oxide layer. The substrate at the bottom of the trench is exposed by removing a portion of the linear oxide layer at the bottom of the trench. A polysilicon layer, deposited completely over the mask, fills the trench as well. The polysilicon layer on the mask layer and outside the trench is removed, leaving polysilicon within the trench, which forms a polysilicon plug. A thin conformal barrier layer is formed over the substrate. An insulator layer is deposited above the barrier layer. The isolation layer and barrier layer on top of the mask as well as outside the trench are removed using a chemical mechanical polishing method. The mask is removed.