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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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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 />

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8T/50sccm 7.1 2.5<br />

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25sccm<br />

3.5T/<br />

50sccm<br />

3.5T/<br />

75sccm<br />

4.5T/<br />

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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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39.5 14<br />

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 />

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8T/50sccm 7.1<br />

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25!<br />

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