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JOURNAL OF SEMICONDUCTORS
Volume 30, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1674-4926/30/9/096005
Keywords
plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition; silicon nitride; HF solution; etch rate
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- National High Technology Research and Development Program of China [2007AA04Z322]
- State Key Development Program for Basic Research of China [2009CB320305]
- Hundred Talents Plan of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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The influence of deposition, annealing conditions, and etchants on the wet etch rate of plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) silicon nitride thin film is studied. The deposition source gas flow rate and annealing temperature were varied to decrease the etch rate of SiNx:H by HF solution. A low etch rate was achieved by increasing the SiH4 gas flow rate or annealing temperature, or decreasing the NH3 and N-2 gas flow rate. Concentrated, buffered, and dilute hydrofluoric acid were utilized as etchants for SiO2 and SiNx:H. A high etching selectivity of SiO2 over SiNx:H was obtained using highly concentrated buffered HF.
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