IP Library Granted Patent US 9,920,286
Granted Patent B2
US 9,920,286 · App. 15/084,295 · Granted Mar 20, 2018

Cleaning liquid for lithography and method for forming wiring

Inventors: Tomoya Kumagai (Kawasaki, JP); Takahiro Eto (Kawasaki, JP)
Assignee: TOKYO OHKA KOGYO CO., LTD.
C11D7/5022B08B3/08C11D7/08C11D7/263C11D7/3209C11D7/5009G03F7/423G03F7/425H01L21/0206H01L21/02063H01L21/02068
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Patent No.
US 9,920,286
App. No.
15/084,295
Granted
Mar 20, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A cleaning liquid for lithography, and a method for forming a wiring using the cleaning liquid for lithography. The cleaning liquid for includes an alkali or an acid, a solvent, and a silicon compound generating a silanol group through hydrolysis. The method forms a metal wiring layer by embedding a metal in an etching space formed in a low dielectric constant layer of a semiconductor multilayer laminate. In this method, the semiconductor multilayer laminate is cleaned using the cleaning liquid for lithography, after formation of the etching space.

Claims (22)

1. A method of cleaning a semiconductor device, comprising cleaning the semiconductor device with a cleaning liquid comprising an alkali or an acid, a solvent, and a silicon compound that generates a silanol group through hydrolysis, wherein the silicon compound, wherein the silicon compound is a alkoxysilane represented by the following formula (1) or a partial hydrolysis condensate thereof:

R 1 4-n Si(OR 2 ) n   (1)

wherein R1 represents an organic group, R2 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and n is an integer of 1 to 4.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the amount of the silicon compound is 5% by mass or less.

3. A method of cleaning a semiconductor device, comprising cleaning the semiconductor device with a cleaning liquid comprising an alkali, a solvent, and a silicon compound that generates a silanol group through hydrolysis, wherein the alkali includes at least one selected from the group consisting of a quaternary ammonium hydroxide and an alkanolamine.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the quaternary ammonium hydroxide is a compound represented by the following general formula (2):

wherein R3 to R6 each independently represents an alkyl, aryl, aralkyl or hydroxyalkyl group having 1 to 16 carbon atoms.

5. The method of claim 3 , wherein the amount of the quaternary ammonium hydroxide is 0.05 to 10% by mass.

6. The method of claim 3 , wherein the amount of the quaternary ammonium hydroxide is 0.1 to 5% by mass.

7. The method of claim 3 , wherein the amount of the alkanolamine is 0.05 to 20% by mass.

8. The method of claim 3 , wherein the amount of the alkanolamine is 0.1 to 10% by mass.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the alkali includes a combination of a quaternary ammonium hydroxide and an inorganic base.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the acid includes hydrofluoric acid.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the amount of the acid is 1 ppm by mass to 10% by mass.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the amount of the acid is 100 ppm by mass to 5% by mass.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the solvent includes an organic solvent or a combination of an organic solvent and water.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the solvent consists of an organic solvent.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein the amount of the solvent is 1 to 99.7% by mass.

16. The method of claim 1 , wherein the cleaning liquid consists essentially of the alkali or the acid, the solvent, the silicon compound, optionally an anticorrosive agent and optionally a surfactant.

17. The method of claim 1 , wherein the semiconductor device is a multilayer laminate including a low dielectric constant layer.

18. The method of claim 1 , wherein the alkali includes at least one selected from the group consisting of a quaternary ammonium hydroxide and an alkanolamine.

19. The method of claim 3 , wherein the alkali includes a combination of a quaternary ammonium hydroxide and an inorganic base.

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2012-132388 · Jun 11, 2012 · national
Continuity (2)
Division 13913901 · Jun 10, 2013
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