Characteristics of selective MoSiON etching in a chlorine plasma

Byung-Soo Chang; Dong-Soo Min; Hyuk-Joo Kwon; Boo-Yeon Choi

doi:10.1117/12.467492

27 December 2002 Characteristics of Selective MoSiON Etching in a Chlorine Plasma

Byung-Soo Chang, Dong-Soo Min, Hyuk-Joo Kwon, Boo-Yeon Choi

Proceedings Volume 4889, 22nd Annual BACUS Symposium on Photomask Technology; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.467492
Event: Photomask Technology 2002, 2002, Monterey, CA, United States

Abstract

The etch characteristics of MoSiON were investigated when chlorine was utilized as the main etch gas in an ICP dry etch system. MoSiON and glass are easily etched with fluorine-based plasmas such as: CF_4, SF_6, and CHF_3.These plasma chemistries generate carbon-containing and fluorine-containing polymers as byproducts, which can be responsible for generating particles or hard defects on the mask during the MoSiON etch step. They also cause damage to the glass surface, manifesting themselves as a phase or transmission errors. In this paper, new plasma chemistry was applied to etch MoSiON, and its characteristics were examined focusing on the effects of each parameter. These parameters included: ICP power, bias power, pressure, and gas concentration. It is difficult to etch MoSiON with good selectivity to Cr because MoSiON and Cr can be etched simultaneously after the photoresist layer has been removed. It will be shown how to increase the selectivity to Cr using an optimized process leveraging a new hardware modification. The etch characteristics of the chlorine plasma will also be compared to that of fluorine plasmas. It was found that using a chlorine plasma to etch MoSiON instead of a fluorine plasma yields good etch properties and good morphology.

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Byung-Soo Chang, Dong-Soo Min, Hyuk-Joo Kwon, and Boo-Yeon Choi "Characteristics of Selective MoSiON Etching in a Chlorine Plasma", Proc. SPIE 4889, 22nd Annual BACUS Symposium on Photomask Technology, (27 December 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.467492

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