Deep-submicrometer MOS device fabrication using a photoresist-ashing technique
- 1 April 1988
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Electron Device Letters
- Vol. 9 (4) , 186-188
- https://doi.org/10.1109/55.684
Abstract
A photoresist-ashing process has been developed which, when used in conjunction with conventional g-line optical lithography, permits the controlled definition of deep-submicrometer features. The ultrafine lines were obtained by calibrated ashing of the lithographically defined features in oxygen plasma. The technique has been successfully used to fabricate MOSFETs with effective channel length as small as 0.15 mu m that show excellent characteristics. An NMOS ring oscillator with 0.2- mu m devices has been fabricated with a room-temperature propagation delay of 22 ps/stage. Studies indicate that the thinning is both reproducible and uniform so that it should be usable in circuit as well as device fabrication. Since most polymer-based resist materials are etchable with an oxygen plasma, the basic technique could be extended to supplement other lithographic processes, including e-beam and X-ray processes, for fabricating both silicon and nonsilicon devices and circuits.Keywords
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