IP Library Granted Patent US 12,347,671
Granted Patent B2
US 12,347,671 · App. 17/810,002 · Granted Jul 1, 2025

Semiconductor device manufacturing method and semiconductor device manufacturing system

Inventor: Tatsuya Yamaguchi (Nirasaki, JP)
Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
H01L21/02118C08G18/02C08G18/18C08G18/325H01L21/022H01L21/02247H01L21/02255
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Patent No.
US 12,347,671
App. No.
17/810,002
Granted
Jul 1, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, includes forming a sacrificial film made of a polymer having a urea bond on a substrate by supplying an amine and an isocyanate to a surface of the substrate, wherein the sacrificial film is provided in a specific region of the substrate; performing a predetermined process on the substrate on which the sacrificial film is formed; and removing the sacrificial film by heating the substrate to depolymerize the polymer, wherein a carbon bonded to a nitrogen atom contained in an isocyanate group of the isocyanate is a secondary or tertiary non-aromatic carbon.

Claims (28)

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

forming a sacrificial film made of a polymer having a urea bond on a substrate by supplying an amine and an isocyanate to a surface of the substrate, wherein the sacrificial film is provided in a specific region of the substrate;

performing a predetermined process on the substrate on which the sacrificial film is formed; and

removing the sacrificial film by heating the substrate to depolymerize the polymer,

wherein a carbon bonded to a nitrogen atom contained in an isocyanate group of the isocyanate is a secondary or tertiary non-aromatic carbon.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the carbon bonded to the nitrogen atom contained in the isocyanate group is a carbon constituting a hydrocarbon compound having a chain structure or a cyclic structure.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the amine is a secondary amine.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein, in the removing the sacrificial film, the substrate is heated to a temperature in a range of 400 degrees C. to 500 degrees C.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the isocyanate contains a structural isomer.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the amine contains a structural isomer.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the amine is a bifunctional amine having two secondary amine functional groups.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the isocyanate is a bifunctional isocyanate having two isocyanate groups.

9. The method of claim 2 , wherein the amine is a secondary amine.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein, in the removing the sacrificial film, the substrate is heated to a temperature in a range of 400 degrees C. to 500 degrees C.

11. A system for manufacturing a semiconductor device, the system comprising:

a film forming apparatus configured to form a sacrificial film made of a polymer having a urea bond on a substrate by supplying an amine and an isocyanate to a surface of the substrate, wherein the sacrificial film is provided in a specific region of the substrate;

a processing apparatus configured to perform a predetermined process on the substrate on which the sacrificial film is formed; and

a heat treatment apparatus configured to remove the sacrificial film by depolymerizing the polymer by heating the substrate subjected to the predetermined process,

wherein a carbon bonded to a nitrogen atom contained in an isocyanate group of the isocyanate is a secondary or tertiary non-aromatic carbon.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the carbon bonded to the nitrogen atom contained in the isocyanate group is a carbon constituting a hydrocarbon compound having a chain structure or a cyclic structure.

13. The system of claim 11 , wherein the amine is a secondary amine.

14. The system of claim 11 , wherein the heat treatment apparatus heats the substrate at a temperature in a range of 400 degrees C. to 500 degrees C.

15. The system of claim 11 , wherein the isocyanate contains a structural isomer.

16. The system of claim 11 , wherein the amine contains a structural isomer.

17. The system of claim 11 , wherein the amine is a bifunctional amine having two secondary amine functional groups.

18. The system of claim 11 , wherein the isocyanate is a bifunctional isocyanate having two isocyanate groups.

19. The system of claim 12 , wherein the amine is a secondary amine.

20. The system of claim 19 , wherein the heat treatment apparatus heats the substrate at a temperature in a range of 400 degrees C. to 500 degrees C.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 30, 2022
From: YAMAGUCHI, TATSUYA
To: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
Reel/Frame 060369/0397 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2021-114217 · Jul 9, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230010649A1 · Jan 12, 2023
References Cited (2)
US 20040220369A1 · Chen · 2004 [cited by examiner]
JP 2019080000A · 2019 [cited by applicant]