Atomic layer etching

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11574813
APP PUB NO 20210175088A1
SERIAL NO

17114264

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Atomic layer etching (ALE) processes are disclosed. In some embodiments, the methods comprise at least one etch cycle in which a substrate comprising a metal, metal oxide, metal nitride or metal oxynitride layer is contacted with an etch reactant comprising an vapor-phase N-substituted derivative of amine compound. In some embodiments the etch reactant reacts with the substrate surface to form volatile species including metal atoms from the substrate surface. In some embodiments a metal or metal nitride surface is oxidized as part of the ALE cycle. In some embodiments a substrate surface is contacted with a halide as part of the ALE cycle. In some embodiments a substrate surface is contacted with a plasma reactant as part of the ALE cycle.

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ASM IP HOLDING B VVERSTERKERSTRAAT 8 1322 AP ALMERE

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Dezelah, Charles Helsinki, FI 105 1634
Sharma, Varun Helsinki, FI 103 2735

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