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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/14763 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/14763 ;
Abstract
A pretreatment in which impurities containing carbon are removed from a conductor film formed on a substrate is performed prior to an etching treatment of the conductor film. In this pretreatment, a gas containing oxygen, nitrogen, or a nitrogen oxide is irradiated with ultraviolet rays or electromagnetic waves, and this gas is supplied to the substrate surface, which has been heated to a temperature of 200° C. or lower. This allows a semiconductor device having at least one type of conductor film selected from among a ruthenium film, a ruthenium oxide film, an osmium film, and an osmium oxide film to be manufactured inexpensively and at a high level of quality.