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JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 54, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.7567/JJAP.54.06FH04
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The effect of gas chemistry during etching of an amorphous carbon layer (ACL) on wiggling has been investigated, focusing especially on the changes in residual stress. Although the HBr gas addition reduces critical dimension loss, it enhances the surface stress and therefore increases wiggling. Attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy revealed that the increase in surface stress was caused by hydrogenation of the ACL surface with hydrogen radicals. Three-dimensional (3D) nonlinear finite element method analysis confirmed that the increase in surface stress is large enough to cause the wiggling. These results also suggest that etching with hydrogen compound gases using an ACL mask has high potential to cause the wiggling. (C) 2015 The Japan Society of Applied Physics
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