IP Library Granted Patent US 7,176,145
Granted Patent B2
US 7,176,145 · App. 10/763,337 · Granted Feb 13, 2007

Manufacturing method of semiconductor device

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Patent No.
US 7,176,145
App. No.
10/763,337
Granted
Feb 13, 2007
Kind
B2
Abstract

In forming a high density plasma oxide film, a projection shaped like the mesa, the peaked roof, the cone or the like is formed on an element formation region. This projection gives rise to a problem of producing a polishing scar when the CMD (Chemical Mechanical Polishing) with a ceria slurry is performed. A film having a polishing rate equivalent to the one of the high density plasma oxide film is formed on the high density plasma oxide film to reinforce a projection in the shape of a triangular prism, a cone or such, and, thereafter, the polishing is carried out, using a ceria slurry. In another method, after the first CMP polishing is performed, using a silica slurry containing grains of small particle size which make no aggregation, the second CMP polishing is performed, using a ceria slurry.

Claims (24)

1. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, which comprises:

depositing, on a basic substance surface with a difference in level, a first film through an anisotropic growth;

forming, through an isotropic growth, a second film, having a polishing rate equivalent to or less than a polishing rate of said first film, to reinforce a projection formed on said first film; and

polishing said first film and said second film using a ceria slurry.

2. The method of manufacturing a semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein said difference in level comprises a trench.

3. The method of manufacturing a semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein said difference in level comprises an interconnection.

4. The method of manufacturing a semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein a stopper film which is to act as a polishing stopper, having a polishing rate less than a polishing rate of said first film, is formed on an upper level section constituting said difference in level.

5. The method of manufacturing a semiconductor device according to claim 4 , wherein said first film and said second film both comprise oxide films and said stopper film comprises a nitride film.

6. The method of manufacturing a semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein said first film comprises a film formed by a high density plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition method.

7. The method of manufacturing a semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein said second film comprises a film formed by one of an atmospheric chemical vapor deposition method, a low pressure chemical vapor deposition method, and a plasma chemical vapor deposition method.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising polishing said first film and said second film using a slurry whose grains do not make aggregation before said polishing said first film and said second film using said ceria slurry.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the polishing rate of the first film and the second film are within twenty percent of each other.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein a thickness of said second film is not less than about 100 nm.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein a thickness of said second film is not greater than about 400 nm.

12. The method of claim 1 , further comprising forming a stopper film on an upper level section constituting said difference in level.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein said first film and said second film both comprise oxide films and said stopper film comprises a nitride film.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein said isotropically growing of said second film comprises forming said second film by at least one of an atmospheric chemical vapor deposition method, a low pressure chemical vapor deposition method, and a plasma chemical vapor deposition method.

15. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, the method comprising:

anisotropically growing a first film on a substance surface having differences in level;

isotropically growing a second film which reinforces a projection on said first film, wherein said second film has a polishing rate that is equal to or less than a polishing rate of said first film; and

polishing said first film and said second film using a ceria slurry.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein said difference in level comprises a trench.

17. The method of claim 15 , wherein said difference in level comprises an interconnection.

18. The method of claim 15 , wherein said anisotropically growing of said first film comprises a high density plasma chemical vapor deposition method.

Assignments (6)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 21, 2018
From: LONGITUDE SEMICONDUCTOR S.A.R.L.
To: LONGITUDE LICENSING LIMITED
Reel/Frame 046867/0248 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 24, 2016
From: PS5 LUXCO S.A.R.L.
To: LONGITUDE SEMICONDUCTOR S.A.R.L.
Reel/Frame 039793/0880 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 24, 2016
From: PS4 LUXCO S.A.R.L.
To: PS5 LUXCO S.A.R.L.
Reel/Frame 039818/0506 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 15, 2014
From: ELPIDA MEMORY, INC.
To: PS4 LUXCO S.A.R.L.
Reel/Frame 032900/0568 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Jul 29, 2013
From: PS4 LUXCO S.A.R.L.
To: ELPIDA MEMORY INC.
Reel/Frame 032414/0261 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 25, 2004
From: TSUKAMOTO, TAKEO
To: ELPIDA MEMORY, INC.
Reel/Frame 015136/0780 →