IP Library Granted Patent US 10,460,963
Granted Patent B2
US 10,460,963 · App. 15/747,900 · Granted Oct 29, 2019

Plasma processing method

Inventors: Shuhei Ogawa (Miyagi, JP); Wanjae Park (Miyagi, JP); Yoshihide Kihara (Miyagi, JP); Masanobu Honda (Miyagi, JP)
Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
H01L21/67069H01J37/00H01L21/0273H01L21/308H01L21/3086H01L21/31116H01L21/31138H01L21/31144H01L21/76802H05H1/46
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Patent No.
US 10,460,963
App. No.
15/747,900
Granted
Oct 29, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A plasma processing method of processing a processing target object, in which an organic film, a mask film and a resist film are stacked in sequence, by plasma includes a process of supplying a modifying gas, which is a H 2 gas, a hydrogen halide gas, or a mixed gas containing a rare gas and a H 2 gas or a hydrogen halide gas, into a chamber accommodating therein the processing target object in which a preset pattern is formed on the resist film; and modifying process of modifying the resist film of the processing target object by plasma of the modifying gas at a processing temperature equal to or less than −20° C.

Claims (17)

1. A plasma processing method of processing a processing target object, in which an organic film, a mask film and a resist film are stacked in sequence, by plasma, the plasma processing method comprising:

a process of supplying a modifying gas, which is a H 2 gas, a hydrogen halide gas, or a mixed gas containing a rare gas and a H 2 gas or a hydrogen halide gas, into a chamber accommodating therein the processing target object in which a preset pattern is formed on the resist film;

a modifying process of modifying the resist film of the processing target object by plasma of the modifying gas at a processing temperature equal to or less than −20° C.,

a process of supplying a first processing gas for etching into the chamber; and

a first etching process of etching the mask film with the resist film modified in the modifying process as a mask by plasma of the first processing gas at a processing temperature within a range from 0° C. to 40° C.

2. The plasma processing method of claim 1 ,

wherein the first processing gas includes a gas containing a CF bond or a SF bond as a halogenated compound gas.

3. The plasma processing method of claim 1 , further comprising:

a process of supplying a second processing gas for etching into the chamber; and

a second etching process of etching the organic film with the mask film etched in the first etching process as a mask by plasma of the second processing gas at the processing temperature equal to or less than −20° C.

4. The plasma processing method of claim 3 ,

wherein the second processing gas contains a mixed gas of a rare gas and a gas containing oxygen atoms.

5. The plasma processing method of claim 1 , further comprising:

a process of supplying a second processing gas for etching into the chamber; and

a second etching process of etching the organic film with, as a mask, the mask film to which the pattern of the resist film modified in the modifying process is transcribed by plasma of the second processing gas at the processing temperature equal to or less than −20° C.

6. The plasma processing method of claim 1 ,

wherein the modifying process and the first etching process are performed in a same plasma processing apparatus.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 26, 2018
From: OGAWA, SHUHEI; PARK, WANJAE; KIHARA, YOSHIHIDE; HONDA, MASANOBU
To: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
Reel/Frame 044739/0658 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2015-167416 · Aug 27, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180226279A1 · Aug 9, 2018
Cited By (1)
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