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Process for controlling mobile ion contamination in semiconductor devices

US4679308A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 14, 1984
Grant dateJul 14, 1987
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Expiry dateDec 14, 2004

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S148/061
  • WIPO fieldSemiconductors
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The present invention provides a method of protecting semiconductor integrated circuit from mobile ion contamination. In one embodiment a gettering agent is implanted into a dielectric layer. In an alternative embodiment a gettering agent is implanted into a photoresist layer which is ashed in an oxygen based plasma, leaving the gettering agent on the surface underlying the photoresist.

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