Laser removal of foreign materials from semiconductor wafers

Menachem Genut; Boris Livshits; Yoram Uziel; Ofer Tehar-Zahav; Eli Iskevitch; Izhack Barzilay; Shammai Speiser

doi:10.1117/12.309497

3 June 1998 Laser removal of foreign materials from semiconductor wafers

Menachem Genut, Boris Livshits, Yoram Uziel, Ofer Tehar-Zahav, Eli Iskevitch, Izhack Barzilay, Shammai Speiser

Proceedings Volume 3274, Laser Applications in Microelectronic and Optoelectronic Manufacturing III; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.309497
Event: Optoelectronics and High-Power Lasers and Applications, 1998, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Removal of foreign materials formed during VLSI/ULSI processing, is one of the challenges of advanced semiconductor technology. As device geometries continue to shrink, microcontaminants such as particles, metallic contaminants, photoresists and other organic residues have an increasing impact on yield. As wafer processing becomes more aggressive and contaminants which are yield limiting become much smaller, traditional cleaning techniques based on wet-chemistry cleaning become less adequate. Only a completely dry cleaning process can overcome all the drawbacks associated with the problematic wet chemistry cleaning. A novel DUV-Excimer laser Dry removal method allows the elimination of these contaminants, in a single step process.

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Menachem Genut, Boris Livshits, Yoram Uziel, Ofer Tehar-Zahav, Eli Iskevitch, Izhack Barzilay, and Shammai Speiser "Laser removal of foreign materials from semiconductor wafers", Proc. SPIE 3274, Laser Applications in Microelectronic and Optoelectronic Manufacturing III, (3 June 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.309497

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