ALD Archives

October 27, 2021

Published by Timothy Yang at October 27, 2021

Using Process Modeling to Enhance Device Uniformity during Self-Aligned Quadruple Patterning

Despite the growing interest in EUV lithography, self-aligned quadruple patterning (SAQP) still holds many technical advantages in pattern consistency, simplicity, and cost. This is particularly true for very simple and […]

September 23, 2020

Fig 5: ALD thickness dependence and layer etch. Using profiled anisotropic etching of the SiO2 (blue) and SiN (green), the resulting hole shape can be determined using varying ALD thicknesses. The best shape is found at a 23.5 nm ALD value, using a Semulator 3D visibility etch model that was previously validated again actual etch results.

Published by Timothy Yang at September 23, 2020

Accelerating the Development of Dry Etch Processes during Feature Dependent Etch

In dry etching, the trajectory of accelerated ions is non-uniform and non-vertical, due to collisions with gas molecules and other random thermal effects (Figure 1). This has an impact on […]