Etching methods, methods of removing portions of material, and methods of forming silicon nitride spacers

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6478978
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09516638

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The invention includes a method of patterning a material over a semiconductive substrate, comprising: a) forming a layer of first material against a second material and over the substrate, the semiconductive substrate comprising a surface having a center and an edge; b) first etching the first material in a reaction chamber, the first etching comprising a first center-to-edge uniformity across the surface of the wafer and comprising a first selectivity for the first material relative to the second material; c) second etching the first material in the reaction chamber, the second etching comprising a second selectivity for the first material relative to the second material, the second center-to-edge uniformity being less than the first center-to-edge uniformity, the second selectivity being greater than the first selectivity; and d) cleaning a component of the first material from at least one sidewall of the reaction chamber between the first and second etchings.

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MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC8000 SOUTH FEDERAL WAY BOISE ID 83716-9632

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Allen, III Tuman Earl Kuna, ID 7 21

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