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Particle reduction and control in plasma etching equipment

Moriya et al., 2005

Document ID
257662707081211847
Author
Moriya T
Nakayama H
Nagaike H
Kobayashi Y
Shimada M
Okuyama K
Publication year
Publication venue
IEEE transactions on semiconductor manufacturing

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Particles within plasma etching equipment stick to the wafer and cause defects, resulting in large scale integrated circuit (LSI) yield reduction. We observed the behavior of particles resuspended in a vacuum chamber using a laser light scattering method. Investigating the …
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    • H01J37/32009Arrangements for generation of plasma specially adapted for examination or treatment of objects, e.g. plasma sources
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