Specific Process Knowledge/Etch/DRIE-Pegasus/Pegasus-4/Nitride Etch

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Etching of silicon rich nitride (SRN) with recipes developed for SiO2 etching

Parameter Recipe name: SiO2_res_10 Recipe name: DOE2/Post_II_21
Coil Power [W] 2500 3840
Platen Power [W] 300 300
Platen temperature [oC] 20 20
H2 flow [sccm] 25.6 0
He flow [sccm] 448.7 0
C4F8 flow [sccm] 25.6 30
Pressure [mTorr] 8.8 0.9
Typical results SiO2_res_10 DOE2/Post_II_21
Average etch of SRN on 6" wafer 166 nm/min [+- 17% over a 6" wafer] 142 nm/min [+- 9% over a 6" wafer]
Etch rate of Si3N4 ? ?
Etch rate of SiO2 250 nm/min [+- 3% over a 6" wafer] 306 nm/min [on small piece]
Etch rate in Si ?nm/min ? nm/min
Etch rate of Mir resist ? nm/min ? nm/min

Etch rate uniformity