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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2009
Applicants:
Tong Fang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Yunsang S. Kim, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Andreas Fischer, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Inventors:
Tong Fang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Yunsang S. Kim, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Andreas Fischer, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Assignee:
Lam Research Corporation, Fremont, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B44C 1/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of preventing arcing during bevel edge etching a semiconductor substrate with a plasma in a bevel etcher in which the semiconductor substrate is supported on a semiconductor substrate support comprises bevel edge etching the semiconductor substrate with the plasma in the bevel etcher while evacuating the bevel etcher to a pressure of 3 to 100 Torr while maintaining RF voltage seen at the wafer at a low enough value to avoid arcing.