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The purpose of the paper is to investigate the measurable variations in chemistry of SF6/O2/Ar plasma due to etching
through layers interface of structure poly-Si/SiO2/Si. The noticeable magnitude and sufficient stability in some single
parameters deference make it possible to develop application of Langmuir probe as implementation of a simple end-point-detection technique. The proposed method is based on the established idea that the surface reactions involved to
the process of etching lead to dramatic changes in some parameters of the charged plasma species during the process.
Particularly it was found that the densities of electrons and ions and the electron temperature are affected. It was shown
that effective electron temperature and electron energy distribution function of the reactive gaseous mixture differ greatly
from those of Ar plasma under the same excitation conditions. An approach to wafer-surface charging minimization by
varying excitation settings and EEDF was proposed.
Andrey V. Miakonkikh,Konstantin V. Rudenko, andAlexander A. Orlikovsky
"Langmuir probe applications in monitoring of plasma etching", Proc. SPIE 7025, Micro- and Nanoelectronics 2007, 70250F (29 April 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.802362
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Andrey V. Miakonkikh, Konstantin V. Rudenko, Alexander A. Orlikovsky, "Langmuir probe applications in monitoring of plasma etching," Proc. SPIE 7025, Micro- and Nanoelectronics 2007, 70250F (29 April 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.802362