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Contents Foreword

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Acknowledgments

.............................................................................................. .................................................................................. . . Chapter 1: IC Fabrication Overview....................................................................... Section 1 : Introduction ...........................................................................................

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1.1 Integrated Circuits .............................................................. 1.2 The Semiconductor Industry ...................... Section 2: Support Technologies

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2.1 Crystal Growth and Wafer Preparation ......................................... . . 2.2 Contamination Control ...................................................... ............................... 8 2.3 Circuit Design and Mask Making .............. ............................. 10 2.4 Process Diagnostics and Metrology ...................................................................... 12 Section 3: Integrated Circuit Fabrication

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3.1 Layering ................................................................................................................ 3.2 Patterning .............................................................................................................. 3.3 Doping .................................................................................................................. 3.4 Process Control and In-line Monitoring ............................................................... Section 4: Test and Assembly

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4.1 Electrical Tests ..................................................................................................... 4.2 Die Separation ....................................................................................................... 4.3 Die Attach and Wire Bonding ............................................................................... 4.4 Encapsulation ........................................................................................................ 4.5 Final Test ............................................................................................................... Section 5: Summary .............................................................................................. Chapter 2: Support Technologies .........................................................................

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Section 1 : Introduction . . Section 2: Contamination Control

2.1 Why Control Contamination? ............................................ ............................. ........................................... 2.2 Contamination Sources ..............................

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2.3 The Cleanroom .................. ....................................................... Section 3: Crystal Growth and Preparation ...................................................... ......................................... ion .................................... ......................................... 3.3 Czochralski Silicon Growth ...................................................... 3.4 Shaping, Grinding. Cutting Polishing ......................... 3.5 Final Inspection and Shipping ............................... ......................................... Section 4: Circuit Design 4.1 Introduction ........................ ....................................................... 4.2 Product Definition and Ne duct Plan ......................... ......................................... 4.3 The Design Team ...................................................

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4.4 The Design Process ................................................ ......................................... 4.5 Design Verification and Tapeout ........................................................................... Section 5: Photomask and Reticle Preparation...................................................... 5.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................... 5.2 Reticle Substrate Preparation ................................................................................ 5.3 Pattern Transfer ..................................................................................................... 5.4 Inspection and Defect Repair ................................................................................

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Chapter 3: Forming Wells

Section 1 : Introduction Section 2: Initial Oxidation Section 3: Photolithography 3.1 Introduction ........................ ....................................................... 3.2 Coat (Spin) ............. ...................................................... ............................. 3.3 Exposure (Step) ...................................................... ......................................... 3.4 Develop ..................................................... ..................................................... 3.5 After Develop Inspect (ADI) .......................................................... Section 4: Ion Implantation

................................................................................... Chapter 4: Isolate Active Areas (Shallow Trench Isolation) ..................................... Section 1: Introduction to Shallow Trench Isolation............................................... Section 2: Pad Oxide Growth ................................................................................ Section 3: Silicon Nitride Deposition ................................................................... Section 4: Photolithography for Photo/Etch........................................................ Section 5: Hard Mask Formation Using Plasma Etch ...........................................

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93 95 99 101 105 107 5.1 Hard Mask Overview .......................................................................................... 107 109 5.2 Plasma Etch Overview ........................................................................................ 5.3 Etch Chemistry: Silicon Dioxide and Silicon Nitride ......................................... 114 Section 6: Form Trenches in Silicon with Plasma Etch.......................................... 119 Section 7: Fill Trenches with Silicon Dioxide ........................................................ 121 Section 8: Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) to Remove Excess Dioxide .......123

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Contents Section 9:W e t Etch Removal o f Silicon N i t r i d e and Pad Oxide

............................ Chapter 5: Building the Transistors.................................................................... Section 1 : Introduction ....................................................................................... Section 2:Thin Film Formation ...........................................................................

......................................... 2.1 Gate Dielectric Oxidation .. 2.2 Polycrystalline Silicon (Poly) Deposition .................................................. 2.3 Nitride Cap Deposition ...................................................... Section 3: Poly Gate Formation........................................................................... ......................................... 3.1 Photoresist Patterning ........ 3.2 Plasma Etch .........................................................................................................

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143 143 144 Section 4: Source/Drain Formation ..................................................................... 147 4.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................... 147 4.2 Shallow Implant .................................................................................................. 149 4.3 Spacer Formation ................................................................................................ 149 4.4 High-Dose Implant ............................................................................................. 151 4.5 Anneal ................................................................................................................. 151 .. Section 5: Salicide Formation .............................................................................. 153 5.1 Sputter Cobalt .................................................................................................... 155 5.2 RTP Reaction Forming Silicide .......................................................................... 155 5.3 Strip Residual Cobalt .......................................................................................... 156 156 5.4 Anneal the Silicide ..............................................................................................

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Chapter 6: First Level Metallization Section 1 : Introduction Section 2: N i t r i d e and Oxide Depositions . . .. 2.1 Nitride Deposition .............................................................. ......................................... 2.2 Oxide Deposition ........................... Section 3: C M P Planarization Section 4:Photo/Etch for Contact Holes 4.1 Contact Hole Photolithography ......................................... ......................................... 4.2 Contact Etch ................................... Section 5:Tungsten Plug Process 5.1 Deposit Ti/TiN Barrier/Glue Layers ..........................................................

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5.2 Tungsten CVD .................................................................................................... 5.3 Tungsten CMP .................................................................................................... Section 6 : Low-lc Dielectric Process

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6.1 Deposit Low-k Dielectric Film ........................................................................... 6.2 Trench Photolithography and Etch ..................................................................... Section 7: Copper First Level Interconnection Process ......................................... 7.1 TdTaN Barrier Layer Deposition ....................................................................... 7.2 Sputter Copper (Cu) ............................................................................................

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7.3 Electroplate Copper (Cu) ......................................... ........................... 7.4 Copper CMP .......................................................................................................

........................... Section 1 : Introduction ....................................................................................... Section 2: Deposit Barrier Layer and lntermetal Dielectric ................................... Section 3: Dual Damascene Process ....................................................................

Chapter 8: Multilevel M e t a l Interconnects and Dual Damascene

3.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................... 3.2 Via Photo/Etch .................................................................................................... 3.3 Trench Photo/Etch ............................................................................................... 3.4 Deposit Barrier Layers ........................................................................................ 3.5 Sputter Copper .................................................................................................... 3.6 Electroplate Copper ............................................................................................ 3.7 CMP to Remove Excess Copper ......................................................................... 3.8 Deposit S i c Barrier Layer .................................................................................. 3.9 Build Additional Layers ......................................................................................

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Section 4: Form Bonding Pads Section 5: Final Passivation Process

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5.1 Deposit Final Passivation .................................................................................... 205 5.2 Photo/Etch for Bonding Pads .............................................................................. 205 Chapter 8: Test and Assembly

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Section 1 : Introduction Section 2: Wafer and Chip Testing

2.1 In-line Parametric Test ........................................................................................ 2.2 Wafer Sort (Probe) .............................................................................................. 2.3 Final Functional Test ...........................................................................................

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Section 3: Assembly and Packaging

3.1 Die Separation ..................................................................................................... 3.2 Die Attach and Bond Pad Connection ................................................................ 3.3 Encapsulation ......................................................................................................

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........................................................................... Introduction ....................................................................................................... Section 1 : Atoms and Molecules .........................................................................

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1.1 The Atom ............................................................................................................ 1.2 Molecules ............................................................................................................ 1.3 Organic Molecules ..............................................................................................

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Appendix A: Science Overview

Section 2: Gases

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2.1 Facts about Gases ................................................................................................ 2.2 Ions ...................................................................................................................... 2.3 Plasma ................................................................................................................. 2.4 Free Radicals .......................................................................................................

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2.5 Excited States ...................................................................................................... Section 3: Chemistry

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3.3 Plasma Etch Chemistry ....................................................................................... Section 4: Solids

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4.1 Conductors and Insulators . 4.2 Semiconductors .................. ........................................................................... 238 4.3 pn Junctions ........................................................................................................ 239

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5.1 Electric Charges and Fields 5.2 Electric Current ................................................................................................... 5.3 Magnetic Field ....................................................................................................

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Section 5: Electricity, Electric and Magnetic Fields

Appendix B: Plasma Etch Supplement to Chapter 4 .............................................

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Section 1 : Plasma Etcher Theory Section 2: Plasma Etch Process Requirements

Bibliography

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Index ..............................................................................................................

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% EFmUENT ELECTRICCHARGE ELECTRICCURRENT ELECTRIClELD ELECTROCHEMICALDEPOSITION%#$ ELECTROMAGNET ELECTROMIGRATION ELECTRONICSGRADESILICON%'3 ELECTROPLATING ENCAPSULATION EPITAXIALSILICONEPI EXCITEDSTATE EXPOSURE EXPOSURElELD

& FABRICATIONAREA lELDEFFECTTRANSISTOR lNALTEST mIP CHIPBONDING mUID FOUNDRY FUNCTIONTEST

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N TYPE NATIVEOXIDE NEWPRODUCTPLAN.00 NOBLEGASES

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1 QUARTZ QUARTZGLASS

3 SACRIlCIALOXIDE SALICIDE SCANNINGELECTRONMICROSCOPES3%- SCHEMATIC SCRIBELINE SCRUBBERS SELF ALIGNEDGATE SEMICONDUCTOR SHALLOWTRENCH SHALLOWTRENCHISOLATION34) SHEARINGSTRESS SIDEWALLPASSIVATION SILICA SILICIDES SILICON3I POLYCRYSTALLINEPOLY SINGLECRYSTAL SILICONDIOXIDE SILICONNITRIDENITRIDE SILICONONINSULATOR3/) SIMULATIONS SINGLECRYSTAL SOFTWAREENGINEERS SOLIDSTATEDEVICE SOURCEANDDRAIN SPACER SPECIlCATIONS SPIKEANNEAL SPIN ONDIELECTRIC3/$ SPIN ONGLASS3/' SPUTTERING STANDARDMECHANICALINTERFACE3-)& STATICRANDOMACCESSMEMORY32!- STEP AND REPEATREDUCTION PROJECTIONPRINTING STEP AND SCAN STEPPER

)NDEX STREET SUBSTRATE SURFACTANTS

4 TAPEOUT TAPEAUTOMATEDBONDING4!" TESTWAFERS THERMALBUDGET THERMALOXIDATIONOFSILICON THERMALOXIDE THROUGHPUT TRENCHETCH TRENCHlLLPROCESS

5 UNDERCUTTING

6 VERTICALLAMINARmOW6,& VIA

7 WAFERSORT WELL WELLDIFFUSION WELLDRIVE IN WETETCH

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