WO2003070846A2 - Drying resist with a solvent bath and supercritical co2 - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to the field of drying a polymeric film. More particularly, the present invention relates to the field of drying photoresist, without pattern collapse or deformation, using a solvent bath and supercritical carbon dioxide.
- Fabrication of integrated circuits includes the formation of patterned layers on a semiconductor wafer that form electrically active regions in and on the wafer surface.
- a masking process referred to as photolithography or photomasking is used to transfer a pattern onto the wafer.
- Masking involves applying a photoreactive polymer or photoresist onto the wafer by any suitable means such as by spinning of the wafer to distribute liquid photoresist uniformly on its surface. In a typical semiconductor manufacturing process, several iterations of the masking process are employed. Layers of either positive or negative photoresist can be used in various combinations on the same wafer.
- the wafer is heated or "soft baked” such as on a hot plate to improve adhesion of the photoresist to the substrate surface.
- a photo aligner aligns the wafer to the photomask and then portions of the photoresist coated wafer are exposed to high-energy light so that a pattern is formed as a latent image in the photoresist layer.
- a developing agent is then applied to develop the portions of the photoresist which were exposed.
- positive resist is used, the developed portions of the resist are solubilized by the exposure to high- energy light.
- negative resist the undeveloped portions of the resist are solubilized. Washing and rinsing steps are carried out that selectively remove the solubilized photoresist.
- a drying step is carried out.
- the collapse of high-aspect-ratio photoresist structures is related to the surface tension of the rinse solution (capillary forces scale with the surface tension of the rinse solution) and is a function of both the density (spacing) and aspect ratio of resist lines. This becomes an increasingly serious problem as device feature sizes continue to shrink while relative vertical height increases to accommodate more complex interconnect structures.
- collapse of photoresist structures is a generic term that refers to the deformation (bending), fracture, and/or peeling of resist from the substrate, in response to capillary forces present during the drying stage of a lithographic process.
- D. Goldfarb et. al Aqueous-Based Photoresist Drying Using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide to Prevent Pattern Collapse, J. Vacuum Sci.
- Supercritical fluids are characterized by high solvating and solubilizing properties that are typically associated with compositions in the liquid state. Supercritical fluids also have a low viscosity that is characteristic of compositions in the gaseous state.
- the conventional supercritical fluid drying methods commonly employ alcohol, e.g., ethanol, for rinsing.
- the ethanol rinse liquid can be directly replaced with carbon dioxide (CO 2 ).
- CO 2 carbon dioxide
- a strategy of using conventional supercritical fluid drying methods to dry resist patterns would have to overcome the additional problem of water contamination.
- resist systems are designed to employ aqueous-based developers and, for some resist systems, water is used for rinsing, for example, after development in an aqueous solution of tetramethyl ammonium hydroxide (TMAH).
- TMAH tetramethyl ammonium hydroxide
- polar organic compounds such as ethanol employed in conventional supercritical drying can not be used to dry water-rinsed resists because they dissolve the resist.
- water is used for rinsing, e.g., for resists developed in an aqueous solution of TMAH
- the presence of moisture in the atmosphere can not be avoided. This presents a serious problem because moisture in the atmosphere can cause acrylate-type resist to swell and pattern deformation can occur.
- the impetus for the recent explorations of supercritical fluid to dry resist patterns is the philosophy that pattern collapse can be minimized by reducing the surface tension of the rinse solution. It is commonly known that one of the mechanisms of pattern collapse is the presence of capillary forces. Moreover, it is known that capillary forces scale with the surface tension of the rinse solution.
- decreases in the surface tension relate to decreases in the capillary force acting on the resist walls.
- n- hexane a solution of n- hexane, a CO 2 -philic liquid (in terms of their solubility in CO 2 , polymers have been classified as CO 2 -philic and CO 2 -phobic) and a surfactant, sorbitan fatty acid ether, first replaces the water and, in turn, is replaced with liquid CO 2 before supercritical resist drying (SRD) is performed.
- SRD supercritical resist drying
- the water is replaced directly with the liquid CO 2 containing a surfactant, fluoroether carboxylate, which makes water miscible in CO 2 , and then SRD is performed.
- a surfactant fluoroether carboxylate
- SRD SRD is performed.
- One disadvantage of the supercritical resist drying methods set forth in Namatsu is that their effectiveness is based on the use of a surfactant to enable rinse water to be replaced with CO 2 before the drying step is carried out, resulting in additional chemicals other than CO 2 needed for the process.
- Certain surfactants can dissolve the resist patterns, while various other surfactants can result in the formation of a haze on the surface of the photoresist.
- a first embodiment of the present invention is for a method of drying an object, having a polymeric film, wherein the object is submerged in a rinse liquid.
- the object is removed from the rinse liquid and the object is placed in a solvent bath before a sufficient amount of the rinse liquid can evaporate from the object.
- the density of a solvent in the solvent bath depends on a direction of orientation of the polymeric film with respect to a force (e.g., force of gravity or centripetal force).
- the object is removed from the solvent bath.
- a drying process is performed.
- a second embodiment of the invention is for a method of drying an object having a polymeric film.
- a sufficient quantity of rinse liquid is maintained on top of the polymeric film while moving the object from a rinse bath to a solvent bath.
- the object is placed in the solvent bath.
- the density of a solvent in the solvent bath depends on a direction of orientation of the polymeric film with respect to a force.
- the object is removed from the solvent bath.
- a supercritical fluid drying process
- a third embodiment is for an apparatus for drying an object having a polymeric film including: a rinse bath; a solvent bath; means for maintaining a sufficient quantity of rinse liquid on top of the polymeric film while moving the object from the rinse bath to the solvent bath; means for placing the object in the solvent bath; means for removing the object from the solvent bath; and means for performing a supercritical fluid drying process.
- FIG. 1 is a flow chart showing a process flow for a method of drying an object having a polymeric film, wherein the object is submerged in a rinse liquid, in accordance with the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing a process flow for a method drying an object having a polymeric film in accordance with the present invention.
- FIG. 3 is a schematic illustration of an apparatus for drying an object having a polymeric film in accordance with the present invention.
- the present invention is directed to a process of drying an object having a polymeric film, such as a semiconductor substrate or wafer that has been fabricated in accordance with methods well known in the art of manufacturing semiconductor devices.
- the methods and apparatus in accordance with the present invention utilize the low viscosity and high solvating and solubilizing properties of supercritical carbon dioxide to assist in the cleaning process.
- carbon dioxide should be understood to refer to carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) employed as a fluid in a liquid, gaseous or supercritical (including near- supercritical) state.
- “Liquid carbon dioxide” refers to CO 2 at vapor-liquid equilibrium conditions. If liquid CO 2 is used, the temperature employed is preferably below 31.1 ° C.
- Supercritical carbon dioxide refers herein to CO 2 at conditions above the critical temperature (31.1° C) and critical pressure (1070.4 psi). When CO 2 is subjected to temperatures and pressures above 31° C and 1070.4 psi, respectively, it is determined to be in the supercritical state. "Near-supercritical carbon dioxide” refers to CO 2 within about 85% of absolute critical temperature and critical pressure.
- Various objects can be dried using the processes of the present invention such as semiconductor wafers, substrates, and other media requiring photoresist drying. The present invention, though applicable to the semiconductor industry, is not limited thereto. For the purposes of the invention, “drying” should be understood to be consistent with its conventional meaning in the art.
- substrate includes a wide variety of structures such as semiconductor device structures with a deposited photoresist.
- a substrate can be a single layer of material, such as a silicon wafer, or can include any number of layers.
- a substrate can be comprised of various materials, including metals, ceramics, glass, or compositions thereof.
- FIG. 1 is a flow chart showing a process flow (10) for a method of drying an object having a polymeric film, wherein the object is submerged in a rinse liquid.
- object includes: a substrate consisting of metals, ceramics, glass, and composite mixtures thereof; a semiconductor wafer for forming integrated circuits; and other objects requiring photoresist drying. It should be appreciated that the surface of the object, or at least a portion thereof, is coated with a polymeric film such as photoresist.
- the object is removed from the rinse liquid and placed in a solvent bath before a sufficient amount of the rinse liquid can evaporate from the object (20). It should be understood that "before a sufficient amount of the rinse liquid can evaporate from the object” means before the process of evaporation results in capillary forces that exert a net force on the pattern that deforms the resist lines.
- the rinse liquid is water.
- the density of the solvent depends on the direction of orientation of the polymeric film with respect to a force, such as the force of gravity.
- a force such as the force of gravity.
- the object being dried can be placed into a centrifuge and force is a combination of gravity and a centripetal force.
- a solvent is selected such that the density of the solvent is greater than the density of the rinse liquid.
- a solvent is selected such that the density of the solvent is less than the density of the rinse liquid.
- the solvent includes a co-solvent and/or a surfactant.
- co-solvents that can be used in the present invention include, but are not limited to, aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons, and esters and ethers thereof, particularly mono and di-esters and ethers, alkyl and dialkyl carbonates, alkylene and polyalkylene glycols, and ethers and esters thereof, lactones, alcohols and diols, polydimethylsiloxanes, DMSO, and DMF.
- surfactants that can be used in the invention include, but are not limited to, anionic, cationic, nonionic, fluorinated and non-fluorinated surfactants.
- the object is removed from the solvent bath (30) and a drying process is performed (40).
- the drying process is a supercritical fluid drying process.
- the surface tension vanishes in the supercritical phase, which means that capillary forces are zero in the supercritical phase.
- carbon dioxide is used as the fluid in the supercritical fluid drying process.
- the advantages of using carbon dioxide in the supercritical fluid drying process include that the critical point is relatively low, it is relatively inexpensive, is nontoxic, is chemically inert to various photoresists, and can solubilize organic solvents at moderate pressures.
- FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing a process flow (100) for a method of drying an object having a polymeric film.
- a sufficient quantity of rinse liquid is maintained on top of the polymeric film while moving the object from a rinse bath to a solvent bath (200).
- a sufficient quantity of rinse liquid means a quantity of rinse liquid such that evaporation of the rinse liquid, while moving the object from a rinse bath to a solvent bath, does not result in capillary forces of sufficient magnitude to deform the resist lines.
- the rinse liquid is water.
- the density of the solvent depends on the direction of orientation of the polymeric film with respect to a force, such as force of gravity or centripetal force.
- a solvent is selected such that the density of the solvent is greater than the density of the rinse liquid.
- a solvent is selected such that the density of the solvent is less than the density of the rinse liquid.
- the object is removed from the solvent bath (350) and a supercritical fluid drying process is performed (400).
- FIG. 3 is a schematic illustration of an apparatus for drying an object having a polymeric film, that includes both a rinse bath (500) and a solvent bath (700). There is means for removing the object (550) from the rinse bath (500), such as a robotic arm or operator using a wafer wand. A means for maintaining a sufficient quantity of rinse liquid on top of the polymeric film while moving the object (600) from the rinse bath (500) to the solvent bath.
- means (700), such as a rinse liquid flow, is provided.
- There is means for placing the object (650) in the solvent bath (700) such as a robotic arm or operator using a wafer wand.
- means (550), (650) and (750), although depicted as separate means in FIG. 3, can be the same means, such as the same robotic arm or operator using a wafer wand.
- a means for performing a supercritical fluid drying process such as a pressure chamber, is provided.
- a pressure chamber for supercritical processing is disclosed in co-owned and co-pending United States Patent Applications, Serial No. 09/912,844, entitled "HIGH PRESSURE PROCESSING
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