KR20110001718A - Method for manufacturing semiconductor device - Google Patents
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Abstract
A method of forming a semiconductor device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes forming a photoresist pattern on an etched layer, forming a spacer on sidewalls of the photoresist pattern, removing a photoresist pattern, a gap fill on the etched layer and the spacer Forming a poly layer, planarizing the gapfill poly layer to expose a top of the spacer to form a poly pattern, removing the exposed spacer layer, and etching the etched layer using the poly pattern as an etching mask It includes.
SPT, gap fill poly, overlay margin
Description
The present invention relates to a method of forming a semiconductor device, and more particularly, in the implementation of a pad layout in which interconnect areas are difficult to implement when applying a negative tone SPT method, an overlay margin can be increased during a manufacturing process. A method for forming a semiconductor device.
As semiconductor devices are highly integrated, the size and pitch of patterns for implementing circuits constituting semiconductor devices are gradually decreasing. Looking at the Rayleigh equation, the size of the fine pattern in the semiconductor device is proportional to the wavelength of light used in the exposure process and inversely proportional to the size of the lens. Therefore, a method of reducing the wavelength of light or increasing the size of the lens used in the exposure process has been mainly used for forming a fine pattern.
In addition, in-process photo processing technology refines the mask design to properly control the amount of light that passes through the mask, develop new photosensitizers, and develop scanners using high numerical aperture lenses. By overcoming efforts to develop modified masks, the technical limitations of semiconductor device manufacturing apparatuses have been overcome. However, due to limitations in exposure and resolution ability that proceed using current light sources (for example, KrF, ArF, etc.), it is difficult to form a width and an interval of a desired pattern. For example, until now, exposure techniques for manufacturing a pattern size of about 60 nm have been developed, but there are many difficulties in manufacturing a pattern size smaller than that.
Various studies have been conducted to form a photosensitive film pattern having a size and a gap of a fine pattern to overcome the limitation of the light source. One method is a double patterning technology (DPT) method in which a pattern is formed by performing two photographic processes. The DPT method uses a DE2T (Double Expose Etch Technology) method that exposes and etches a pattern having twice the period of the pattern period, and then exposes and etches a second pattern having the same double period between them, and a spacer. There is a SPT (Spacer Patterning Technology) method of forming a pattern. The DE2T method and the SPT method may be respectively formed by a process of negative tones and positive tones, respectively.
The negative tone DE2T method removes the pattern formed in the first mask process from the second mask process and forms a desired pattern. The positive tone DE2T method combines the pattern formed in the first mask process and the second mask process to form a desired pattern. How to form. However, the DE2T method, which achieves the desired pattern density by performing the second mask process and etching process after the first mask process and etching process, increases the complexity of the process by increasing the number of additional processes required to perform the second mask process and etching process. There is a disadvantage to increase. In addition, there is a possibility that alignment errors occur in the patterns obtained through the first mask process and the second mask process that are independent of each other, commonly referred to as overlay.
On the other hand, the SPT method is a self align method that can prevent the disadvantage of misalign because the mask process is performed only once for patterning the cell region. However, an additional mask process is required to separate the pattern portion of the mat edge region to form the pad pattern in the core and peripheral circuit regions, and the deposition uniformity of the spacer formation region and the spacer formation. CD uniformity due to the etching process is not easy, so CD uniformity is a problem.
1A to 1G are cross-sectional views illustrating a negative tone SPT method. Here, an example of forming a control gate of a flash memory will be described.
Referring to FIG. 1A, after forming an isolation layer defining an active region on a semiconductor substrate, a capping first silicon oxynitride layer is formed on an upper structure formed by depositing an ONO dielectric film / gate poly / tungsten silicide (WSi) or the like. (SiON) 110 is formed. The first TEOS 112 and the
However, since the
The photoresist film is coated on the
Referring to FIG. 1B, the
Referring to FIG. 1C, a
1D and 1E, a gap fill hard mask
Referring to FIG. 1F, the
Referring to FIG. 1G, by using the
As described above, the SPT process using the material having the good gap fill characteristics described with reference to FIGS. 1A to 1G repeats the process of depositing and etching the hard mask layer several times and etching the lower insulating layer according to the hard mask pattern formed at that time. Since the process is performed, there is a disadvantage that the turn-around-time (TAT) is increased to increase the manufacturing cost. That is, as the manufacturing process of the semiconductor device including the fine pattern becomes longer, it is difficult to apply the above-described SPT process for mass production of the semiconductor device.
In order to overcome the above-described problem, the present invention provides a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device that can reduce the manufacturing cost of the semiconductor device by reducing the number of processes in the process of forming a fine pattern by applying the negative SPT method.
The present invention provides a method of forming a photoresist pattern on an etched layer, forming a spacer on sidewalls of the photoresist pattern, removing the photoresist pattern, forming a gapfill poly layer on the etched layer and the spacer, Forming a poly pattern by planarizing the gapfill poly layer to expose an upper portion of the spacer, removing the exposed spacer layer, and etching the etched layer using the poly pattern as an etch mask. Provided are a method of forming an element.
Preferably, forming a spacer on a sidewall of the photoresist pattern includes forming a spacer layer having a uniform thickness on the etched layer and the photoresist pattern, and etching the spacer layer to expose the photoresist pattern. do.
Preferably, the etching of the spacer layer may be performed by an etch back process.
Preferably, the forming of the poly pattern may be performed using one of an etch back process, a chemical mechanical polishing process, and a wet etching process.
Preferably, the method of forming the semiconductor device further comprises depositing an antireflection film between the etched layer and the photoresist pattern.
Preferably, the method of forming the semiconductor device further includes etching the exposed anti-reflection film using the photoresist pattern as an etching mask after the formation of the photoresist pattern.
Preferably, the anti-reflection film remaining under the photoresist pattern is removed together during the process of removing the photoresist pattern.
Preferably, the etched layer is characterized in that it comprises a TEOS film.
Preferably, the spacer film is characterized in that it comprises an oxide film.
Preferably, the method of forming the photosensitive film pattern is one of an immersion exposure process using ArF and an exposure process using ArF or KrF.
In the present invention, when the negative tone SPT method is applied, spacers are formed on sidewalls of the photoresist pattern instead of a hard mask pattern made of an insulating film, thereby depositing a conventional hard mask layer and patterning the hard mask layer through an exposure process. This can be greatly simplified, which reduces the turn-around-time (TAT).
In addition, the present invention can use a poly layer deposited through the same process as an etching mask, compared to the case of using an etching mask consisting of two poly layers deposited through different processes in the prior art of the hard mask layer or the etching layer There is an advantage of increasing the uniformity during etching.
In the present invention, a negative SPT process is simplified among the methods for forming a fine pattern included in a semiconductor device. Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail the present invention.
2A to 2I are cross-sectional views illustrating a manufacturing method of forming a fine circuit pattern through the SPT method according to the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 2A, a
As shown in FIG. 1A, when performing the conventional negative SPT process, the
Referring to FIG. 2B, the
Referring to FIG. 2C, a
Referring to FIG. 2D, the
Referring to FIG. 2E, the exposed
Referring to FIG. 2F, a
Referring to FIG. 2G, the
Referring to FIG. 2H, a portion of the
In the conventional case, since the poly pattern is deposited through two different processes, even if the same material is used, the uniformity of the pattern is inferior, whereas the
Referring to FIG. 2I, the exposed
As described above, the present invention has the advantage of reducing the turn-around-time (TAT) by forming a spacer layer directly on the sidewall of the photoresist pattern when applying the negative tone SPT method. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes forming a photoresist pattern on an etched layer, forming a spacer layer on top of the etched layer and the photoresist pattern, and etching the spacer layer to expose an upper surface of the photoresist pattern. Removing the exposed photoresist pattern, forming a gap fill poly layer on the spacer layer, etching the gap fill poly layer to expose the upper surface of the spacer layer, forming a poly pattern, and removing the exposed spacer layer. And etching the etching target layer using the poly pattern as an etching mask.
It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications, additions, and substitutions are possible, and that various modifications, additions and substitutions are possible, within the spirit and scope of the appended claims. As shown in Fig.
1A to 1G are cross-sectional views illustrating a negative tone SPT method.
2a to 2i are cross-sectional views showing a manufacturing method for forming a fine circuit pattern through the SPT method according to the present invention.
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