A Simplified Model for the Etch Rate of Novolac-Based Photoresist |
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Authors: | R. Paul Bray R. Russell Rhinehart |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, PO Box 43121, Lubbock, Texas, 79409–3121;(2) Present address: School of Chemical Engineering, Oklahoma State University, 423 Engineering North, Stillwater, Oklahoma, 74078-5021 |
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Abstract: | The novolac-based resins used as positive-tone photoresists are frequently etched in an oxygen plasma. It is desirable to have a predictive model of the photoresist etch rate but, for process improvement, control, and analysis, the development of a rigorous mechanistic model is impractical. Instead, a simplified mechanistic model is derived, here, according to the method proposed by Hougen and Watson for the study of fluid–solid interactions. This model derivation method is employed in order to arrive at a functional form that represents chemical etching of the resist by oxygen radicals, assisted by the plasma ion flux. Values for model parameters are determined from process data by nonlinear regression. The quality of the model fit to the data is tested statistically. |
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Keywords: | photoresist etch rate predictive model statistical comparison |
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