Color abnormal phenomenon in post Cu chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) is found in 3X nm flash memory. TEM cross-section shows that there is no Cu residue but has localized thickness variation. This color abnorm...
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(纸本)9781479972425
Color abnormal phenomenon in post Cu chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) is found in 3X nm flash memory. TEM cross-section shows that there is no Cu residue but has localized thickness variation. This color abnormal phenomenon cannot be eliminated with subsequently Cu and barrier polishing. According to experimental results, the non-uniform inhibitor distribution of Cu slurry issue will enhance the localized Cu dishing profile and lead to thickness variations after barrier polishing. This phenomenon is found especially at high selectivity Cu slurry in advanced Cu CMP process. Color abnormal issue is resolved by implementing the slurry with lower corrosion inhibitor concentration. Although it may have slightly dishing issue after Cu polishing, it can be optimized by subsequent barrier polishing process.
The goal of this research is to improve bending issue and etch durability of amorphous carbon hard mask film (APF). The design of experiments (DoE) employed variable conditions of the spacing, RF power, precursors flo...
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The goal of this research is to improve bending issue and etch durability of amorphous carbon hard mask film (APF). The design of experiments (DoE) employed variable conditions of the spacing, RF power, precursors flow (C 3 H 6 or C 2 H 2 ) and temperature. High Young's modulus and high sp 3 /sp 2 bonding ratio can increase the etching resistance, and strengthen the high aspect ratio patterning structures.
Chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) technique is widely applied in the semiconductor industry nowadays. The CMP working mechanism is the interaction of the chemical reaction and mechanical polishing to remove the unde...
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(纸本)9781467383271
Chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) technique is widely applied in the semiconductor industry nowadays. The CMP working mechanism is the interaction of the chemical reaction and mechanical polishing to remove the undesired materials in the circumstance with the feeding slurry and the polishing pad. As the device scale shrink, defect and uniformity control have become the major challenge and critical issues of CMP process. Since the CMP performance strongly depends on the consumable parts with complex process parameters, it may take plenty of consumable cost and working hours to improve the processes issues. Therefore the finite element method for the CMP process simulation is adopted to improve the efficiency of CMP process tuning in recent years [1].
Monolith SCR catalysts coated with V2Os- WO3/TiO2 were prepared by varying binder and coating thickness. Comparing with a monolith extruded with 100% V2O5-WO3/TiO2 powder, a coated monolith with a catalyst-coating lay...
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Monolith SCR catalysts coated with V2Os- WO3/TiO2 were prepared by varying binder and coating thickness. Comparing with a monolith extruded with 100% V2O5-WO3/TiO2 powder, a coated monolith with a catalyst-coating layer of 260 μm in thickness exhibited the similar initial NOx reduction activity at 250℃. After 4 h abrasion (attrition) in an air stream containing 300 g. m^-3 fine sands (50-100μm) at a superficial gas velocity of 10m·s^-1, the catalyst still has the activity as a 100% molded monolith does in a 24-h activity test and it retains about 92% of its initial activity at 250℃. Estimation of the equivalent durable hours at a fly ash concentration of 1.0 g.m^-3 in flue gas and a gas velocity of 5 m.s^-1 demonstrated that this coated monolith catalyst is capable of resisting abrasion for 13 months without losing more than 8% of its initial activity. The result suggests the great potential of the coated monolith for application to de-NOx of flue gases with low fly ash concentrations from, such as glass and ceramics manufacturing processes.
For the first time, 20nm DRAM has been developed and fabricated successfully without extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography using the honeycomb structure (HCS) and the air-spacer technology. The cell capacitance (Cs) c...
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For the first time, 20nm DRAM has been developed and fabricated successfully without extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography using the honeycomb structure (HCS) and the air-spacer technology. The cell capacitance (Cs) can be increased by 21% at the same cell size using a novel low-cost HCS technology with one argon fluoride immersion (ArF-i) lithography layer. The parasitic bit-line (BL) capacitance is reduced by 34% using an air-spacer technology whose breakdown voltage is 30% better than that of conventional technology.
To clarify the free volume size distributions of the cardo-based polymer membranes, where ortho-positronium (o-Ps) undergoes pick-off annihilation, the o-Ps lifetime distributions were analyzed by the LT9 programme. I...
To clarify the free volume size distributions of the cardo-based polymer membranes, where ortho-positronium (o-Ps) undergoes pick-off annihilation, the o-Ps lifetime distributions were analyzed by the LT9 programme. It was found that the cardo-based polysulfone membrane has much narrower o-Ps lifetime/hole size distributions than the cardo-based polyimide membranes with the 2,2-bis(3,4-dicarboxyphenyl)hexafluoropropane dianhydride (6FDA) moiety. Further, the lifetime/hole size distributions of the cardo-based polymer membranes are appreciably broadened with increasing temperature. This suggests that in these membranes there are holes not only of different sizes but also of different thermal expansion coefficients. It is also shown that in a membrane with a wider hole size distribution the average o-Ps lifetime tends to be longer than would be expected from the correlation between the o-Ps lifetime and the total free volume for common polymers.
Methods to evaluate powder injection molding feedstock without performing the complete processing were developed to reduce the developmentto- commercialization cycle time for feedstock. The mixing homogeneity of the p...
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Pseudo-periodic signals are rampant in biomedical applications but are difficult to analyze. One approach is to compute time domain parameters of each individual cycle in the pseudo-periodic signal. The classic approa...
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Pseudo-periodic signals are rampant in biomedical applications but are difficult to analyze. One approach is to compute time domain parameters of each individual cycle in the pseudo-periodic signal. The classic approach requires repeated computation in each cycle, which tends to be either error prone, computationally burdensome, or requires manual effort. We provide a novel combination of the pitch synchronous wavelet transform which when combined with dynamic time warping results in effective quantification of cycles in the pseudo-periodic signal. We demonstrate our application of this method in studying the arterial pulse. The results show that our approach is feasible and effective, and confirms further scope in other applications.
The authors investigated the correlation between variation of post-etch critical dimension (ECD) and etcher chamber condition during floating gate etching process. This paper presents the significantly effective metho...
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The authors investigated the correlation between variation of post-etch critical dimension (ECD) and etcher chamber condition during floating gate etching process. This paper presents the significantly effective method of utilizing the SF 6 /O 2 -based very long plasma-chamber cleaning or the novel Transformer coupled plasma (TCP) window temperature design not only achieves a stable gate CD (CD variation
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