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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 18, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Der'E Jan, Plano, TX (US);
Thomas M. Parrill, North Andover, MA (US);
Brian K. Kirkpatrick, Allen, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/1302 ; H01L 2/1461 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/1302 ; H01L 2/1461 ;
Abstract
A nitride wet etch in which liquid TEOS is flowed directly into the hot phosphoric acid bath before wafer etching begins. This preloads the bath chemistry with silicate ions, and thus helps assure very high selectivity to silicon oxides.