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Fig. 10. Showing the etch variance between a 2 minute and 3 minute etch of<br />
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pressures as a function of the catalyst carrier gas flow.<br />
C. PECVD Oxide and Nitride with Ethanol Catalyst<br />
(Comparable Etch Rate Process Comparison):<br />
A discussed in section II, a process to produce a comparable<br />
etch rate to the water catalyst process was developed to analyse<br />
the effects of the selectivity for the ethanol catalyst process.<br />
This was carried out as there were no clear behaviour<br />
characteristics from the direct recipe comparison of ethanol<br />
from the previous section. For a low pressure regime, the<br />
criteria was that with the “base” recipe (150 sccm aHF, 150<br />
sccm nitrogen buffer and 50 sccm catalyst carrier gas etched<br />
and etching time of 3 minutes), the total amount of etched<br />
oxide should equal in the region of 1800Å. For a high pressure<br />
regime, the total etched oxide for the process should equal<br />
approximately 5700Å. For the 25! process, a low pressure of<br />
24 Torr was used and a high pressure of 35 Torr was required.<br />
At 10!, a low pressure of 12 Torr provided the right value for<br />
total etched oxide and at high pressure, a pressure of 28 Torr<br />
was used.<br />
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pressures as a function of ethanol catalyst carrier gas flow.<br />
TABLE 1<br />
SUMMARY OF SELECTIVITIES WITH DIRECT COMPARISON OF ETCH PROCESS<br />
Pressure/<br />
Carrier Gas<br />
Flow<br />
Water, 25!<br />
Ethanol,<br />
25!<br />
8T/25sccm 2.8 2.2<br />
8T/50sccm 7.1 2.5<br />
8T/75sccm 5.6 2.2<br />
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25sccm<br />
11T/<br />
50sccm<br />
11T/<br />
75sccm<br />
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13.9 -21.6<br />
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Pressure/<br />
Carrier Gas<br />
Flow<br />
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25sccm<br />
3.5T/<br />
50sccm<br />
3.5T/<br />
75sccm<br />
4.5T/<br />
25sccm<br />
4.5T/<br />
50sccm<br />
4.5T/<br />
75sccm<br />
Water, 10!<br />
Ethanol,<br />
10!<br />
17.6 -8.8<br />
17.4 6.1<br />
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37.8 -5<br />
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TABLE 2<br />
SUMMARY OF SELECTIVITIES OF WATER CATALYST PROCESS AND COMPARABLE<br />
ETCH ETHANOL PROCESS AT 25!<br />
Pressure/<br />
Carrier Gas<br />
Flow<br />
Water, 25!<br />
8T/25sccm 2.8<br />
8T/50sccm 7.1<br />
Pressure/<br />
Carrier Gas<br />
Flow<br />
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24T/<br />
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25!<br />
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pressures as a function of ethanol catalyst carrier gas flow.<br />
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