Selective nitride etching with silicate ion pre-loading

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6287983
APP PUB NO 20010001728A1
SERIAL NO

09213143

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A nitride wet etch in which liquid TEOS is flowed directly into the hot phosphoric acid bath before wafer etching begins. This preloads the bath chemistry with silicate ions, and thus helps assure very high selectivity to silicon oxides.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Jan, Der'E Plano, TX 3 117
Kirkpatrick, Brian K Allen, TX 63 262
Parrill, Thomas M North Andover, MA 3 12

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