Reduction of pattern peeling in step-and-flash imprint lithography

S Takei, T Ogawa, R Deschner, CG Willson - Microelectronic engineering, 2014 - Elsevier
A strong adhesion force between resist and underlayer materials was employed to reduce
resist pattern peeling generated from de-molding in step-and-flash imprint lithography …

Compositions and processes for photoresist stripping and residue removal in wafer level packaging

WM Lee - US Patent 7,543,592, 2009 - Google Patents
(52) US Cl......... r 134/1.3; 510/175; 510/176 Improved compositions and processes for
removing photore (58) Field of Classification Search.................. 134/1.3: sists, polymers, post …

Compositions and processes for photoresist stripping and residue removal in wafer level packaging

WM Lee - US Patent 7,579,308, 2009 - Google Patents
Improved compositions and processes for removing photoresists, polymers, post etch
residues, and post oxygen ashing residues from interconnect, wafer level packaging, and …

Semiconductor memory device

G Haller, SD Tang, S Cummings - US Patent 7,696,567, 2010 - Google Patents
A memory device comprising a vertical transistor includes a digit line that is directly coupled
to the source regions of each memory cell. Because an electrical plug is not used to form a …

Study of high etch rate bottom antireflective coating and gap fill materials using dextrin derivatives in ArF lithography

S Takei, T Shinjo, Y Sakaida - Japanese Journal of Applied …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
In the present paper, we describe a novel class of bottom antireflective coating (BARC) and
gap fill materials using dextrin with a-glycoside bonds in a polysaccharide. ArF resist …

DRAM including a vertical surround gate transistor

TR Abbott - US Patent 7,566,620, 2009 - Google Patents
3.941, 629 A 3, 1976 Jaffe ured to reduce any short channel effect on the reduced size 4.
139442 A 2f1979 Bondur et al. memory cells. In addition, the memory cells may advanta …

Study of self cross-link bottom antireflective coating and gap fill materials for sublimate defect reduction in ArF lithography

S Takei, T Shinjo, Y Sakaida - Japanese journal of applied …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
Sublimate reduction from the new bottom antireflective coating (BARC) and gap fill materials
in bake process was investigated by means of absorption spectroscopy and the quantitative …

Gap fill materials using cyclodextrin derivatives in ArF lithography

S Takei, T Shinjo, Y Sakaida… - Japanese Journal of …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
High planarizing gap fill materials based on β-cyclodextrin in ArF photoresist under-layer
materials have been developed for fast etching in CF 4 gas. Gap fill materials used in the via …

Advanced ultraviolet cross-link process and materials for global planarization

S Takei, Y Horiguchi, T Ohashi, Y Mano… - Journal of Micro …, 2008 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The use of conventional thermal cross-link materials such as negative resists, antireflective
coating, and planarizing layers does not lead to excellent planarization for multilevel …

Resist poisoning studies of gap fill materials for patterning metal trenches in via-first dual damascene process

S Takei - Japanese journal of applied physics, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
The via-first dual damascene process is the current manufacturing technology for copper/low-
k interconnect fabrication. In the conventional via-first dual damascene process, metal trench …