Polyvinyl alcohol cinnamate type KPR photoresist etching residue stripper composition
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of semiconductor photoresist stripping agents, and particularly relates to a rapid stripping agent for removing KPR photoresist etching residues by using fluorine.
Background
In the production of semiconductor chips, it is necessary to transfer the designed pattern from the mask to the wafer by photolithography and etching to finally produce ultra-high integration chips. The method comprises the steps of depositing a film (comprising silicon dioxide, silicon nitride, polysilicon, silicon carbide, gallium nitride, titanium nitride, cobalt, tungsten, copper, aluminum, nickel and the like), photoresist coating, exposing, developing, ion implantation or etching, ashing and cleaning on a wafer. During ion implantation or etching process, photoresist is hard to remove because of ion bombardment becoming hardened, and a large amount of polymer byproducts remain on the wafer during etching process, so that even in the subsequent ashing step, photoresist layers can only be removed, and the remaining byproducts can only rely on a cleaning process to clean the wafer thoroughly.
In the front-end cleaning process (i.e., prior to formation of the metal interconnect layer), a mixture of sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide is typically used to remove residues after etching or ion implantation. However, after the metal interconnection layer is formed, neither the aluminum interconnection process nor the copper interconnection process can be performed by using the front-end cleaning process, and a special stripper is necessary to clean the wafer. Obviously, the special stripper used in the back-end process must take into account that, in addition to completely cleaning the residues after etching, the substrate of the wafer itself, in particular metallic aluminum or copper, and also silicon dioxide and silicon nitride, must not be damaged too much.
At present, the most main photoresist of our company is KPR series photoresist of polyvinyl alcohol cinnamate, which has the advantages of high resolution, etching resistance, strong adhesiveness and the like, but after etching-ashing, the conventional back-stage stripping liquid still has residues easily after cleaning, so the cleaning time is often longer, generally more than 20 minutes is required, and the corrosion damage of a wafer substrate can be caused along with the extension of the cleaning time. With the development of advanced processes, the complexity of metal interconnection processes is higher and higher, the number of layers is also higher and the number of cleaning times required for single wafer production is also higher and higher. Longer cleaning times can lead to higher occupancy of cleaning equipment, thereby forcing semiconductor factories to purchase more equipment and occupy more clean rooms to meet the growing cleaning demands. Purchase of semiconductor equipment, use of stripping agents, and clean room operation are all important components of the cost of operating a semiconductor factory. Therefore, reducing the cleaning time and improving the cleaning efficiency are one of the important means for reducing the cost of the semiconductor factory.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the problems and the defects of the prior art and provide a polyvinyl alcohol cinnamate type KPR photoresist etching residue stripper composition.
The technical scheme is that the polyvinyl alcohol cinnamate type KPR photoresist etching residue stripper composition comprises the following components in parts by weight:
and the rest of ultrapure water, wherein the sum of the mass percentages of the components is 100 percent, and the components are as follows:
the surfactant is one or more of glycol, glycerol, glucose, sorbitol, pentaerythritol, xylitol and AEO-7;
The organic solvent is one or a mixture of more of ether, ketone and amide organic solvents;
the organic amine is one or more of monoethanolamine, triethanolamine and isopropanolamine;
The corrosion inhibitor is one or a mixture of more of phenols, carboxylic acids and benzotriazole;
The fluoride is one or more of ammonium bifluoride, tetramethyl ammonium fluoride, tetraethyl ammonium fluoride, tetrabutyl ammonium fluoride, hydrogen fluoride and ammonium fluoride.
Preferably, the surfactant is one or more of AEO-7, glycerol, pentaerythritol, sorbitol, ethylene glycol, glucose and xylitol.
Preferably, the surfactant is a mixture of glycerol and pentaerythritol.
Preferably, the ether organic solvent is one or more of diethylene glycol monomethyl ether, ethylene glycol monoethyl ether, diethylene glycol monobutyl ether, propylene glycol monomethyl ether, propylene glycol monoethyl ether, propylene glycol monobutyl ether, dipropylene glycol monomethyl ether, dipropylene glycol monoethyl ether, dipropylene glycol monobutyl ether.
Preferably, the ketone organic solvent is one or more of acetone, imidazolidone, pyrrolidone and imidazolinone.
Preferably, the amide-based organic solvent is dimethylformamide and/or dimethylacetamide.
Preferably, the corrosion inhibitor is one or more of sodium benzoate, methyl benzotriazole, sebacic acid, ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid, sodium nitrite, gallic acid and 1, 2-dihydroxyphenol.
Preferably, the corrosion inhibitor is any one of combination of benzoic acid and methyl benzotriazol, sodium benzoate and sebacic acid, and sebacic acid/sodium nitrite.
Preferably, the polyvinyl alcohol cinnamate type KPR photoresist etching residual stripper composition comprises the following components in percentage by mass:
and the rest of ultrapure water, wherein the sum of the mass percentages of the components is 100 percent, and the components are as follows:
The corrosion inhibitor is any combination of sodium benzoate and methyl benzotriazol, sodium benzoate and sebacic acid, and sebacic acid and sodium nitrite in a mass ratio of 1:1;
The surfactant adopts glycerol and pentaerythritol with the mass ratio of 1:1, or adopts fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene ether AE0-7.
The invention also provides a method for removing photoresist etching residues by using the stripping agent composition, which comprises the steps of carrying out contact cleaning on the stripping agent and the etched and ashed semiconductor chip in a spraying mode at the temperature of 20-60 ℃, then carrying out oscillation treatment in an ultrasonic wave, megasonic wave, shaking or rotating oscillation mode, then rinsing with pure water or ultrapure water at the temperature of 10-30 ℃, and finally carrying out centrifugal drying and/or IPA steam drying.
Compared with the prior art, the stripping agent can be applied to a semiconductor chip cleaning process adopting a KRP photoresist structure as aluminum interconnection or copper interconnection, can rapidly clean photoresist residues after etching and ashing of semiconductor chips, has obviously shortened cleaning time compared with similar products, has good cleaning effect and good protection effect on wafer substrates, and can obviously reduce the operation cost of a semiconductor factory.
Detailed Description
The present application is further illustrated below in conjunction with specific embodiments, it being understood that these embodiments are meant to be illustrative of the application and not limiting the scope of the application, and that modifications of the application, which are equivalent to those skilled in the art to which the application pertains, fall within the scope of the application defined in the appended claims after reading the application.
Examples 1 to 39
The KPR photoresist etching residue stripper described in examples 1-39 of the present invention was formulated by mixing the components and proportions shown in tables 1 and 2. The method comprises the steps of testing the influence of different surfactants on the cleaning effect in examples 1-10, testing the influence of different corrosion inhibitor combinations on the cleaning effect and the corrosion condition of a test piece in examples 11-21, and discussing the influence of other components and proportions on the cleaning effect of KPR photoresist residues.
Table 1 shows the components of the stripping agent of examples 1 to 33
Table 2 the mass percent content of each component and the cleaning time in examples 1 to 33.
Comparative examples 1 to 17:
The photoresist components and proportions of comparative examples D1 to D17 of the present invention are shown in tables 3 and 4. Wherein, comparative examples 1 to 12 are mainly used for evaluating the influence of the cleaning effect of the stripping agent of the invention under the condition of no surfactant, and comparative examples 13 to 17 are used for the cleaning effect under the condition of non-polyol surfactant.
Table 3 shows the components of the photoresists of comparative examples D1 to D17
Table 4 shows the contents of the components in the photoresists of comparative examples D1 to D15
Stripping agent cleaning test method and evaluation:
1. The stripper cleaning and cleaning effect test of the semiconductor chip after etching and ashing comprises the steps of uniformly mixing the above examples and comparative examples according to a proportion, filtering, placing 5L of the mixture into spray cleaning equipment, placing the semiconductor chip after etching and ashing by using KPR photoresist sold in Jiangsu nan large photoelectric market into the cleaning equipment, cleaning by using a spray method, rinsing by using ultrapure water after cleaning, and drying by using a centrifugal drying mode after rinsing. And finally, detecting the cleaning effect by using SEM. The washing time of each example and comparative example was 1 minute and 30 minutes for each piece, and the washing results are shown in tables 5 and 6.
2. Different blank wafer corrosion effect test:
the method for testing the corrosion conditions of the blank wafer metal aluminum, the blank wafer metal copper, the blank wafer metal titanium and the blank wafer metal tungsten comprises the following steps:
The front value of the film thickness can be obtained by measuring the surface resistance of a blank wafer with the thickness of 4x4cm by using a four-point probe instrument, immersing the wafer with the measured front value into a stripping agent with the constant temperature of 30-60 ℃, taking out the wafer after 30 minutes, rinsing the wafer by ultrapure water, drying the wafer by high-purity nitrogen, measuring the thickness back value of the cleaned film by using the four-point probe instrument, and calculating the corrosion rate of the stripping agent to the metal aluminum film.
The method for testing the corrosion conditions of the blank wafer Tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) and the blank wafer silicon nitride (PE Si 3N4) comprises the following steps:
The etching condition of the blank wafer Tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) is specifically operated by using FE3000 to measure the front value of the thickness of the 4x4cm blank TEOS wafer, immersing the TEOS wafer with the measured front value into a stripping agent with the constant temperature of 30-60 ℃, taking out the TEOS wafer after 30 minutes, rinsing the TEOS wafer with ultrapure water, then drying the TEOS wafer with high-purity nitrogen, testing the rear value of the thickness of the TEOS film by using FE3000, and calculating to obtain the etching rate of the stripping agent to the TEOS film, wherein the etching results are shown in tables 5 and 6.
The corrosion condition of the blank silicon nitride (PE Si 3N4) is specifically carried out by measuring the front value of the thickness of a blank silicon nitride wafer with the thickness of 4x4cm by using an FE3000, immersing the silicon nitride wafer with the front value in a stripping agent with the constant temperature of 30-60 ℃, taking out the silicon nitride wafer after 30 minutes, rinsing the silicon nitride wafer with ultrapure water, drying the silicon nitride wafer by using high-purity nitrogen, testing the rear value of the thickness of the silicon nitride film by using the FE3000, and calculating the corrosion rate of the stripping agent on the silicon nitride film, wherein the corrosion test results are shown in tables 5 and 6.
Table 5 shows the etching effect of different blank wafers after being cleaned by the stripping solution according to various embodiments of the present invention
Table 6 shows the etching effect of different blank wafers after being cleaned by different stripping solutions of comparative examples
The meanings of the symbols in tables 5 and 6
From comparison of the cleaning results of the above examples B1 to B33 and comparative examples D1 to D15, it can be seen that:
From the results of comparative examples D1 to D15, it was found that the stripping solution without the surfactant still had more photoresist residue after 10 minutes of cleaning, and the cleaning effect after the addition of the surfactants such as 5-sulfosalicylic acid, isooctyl alcohol ether phosphate, sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate, distyrylphenol polyoxyethylene ether, and vinyl distearamide was improved, but the effects of examples 1 to 33 of the present invention were still different from those of examples 1 to 33.
The stripping agents B1-B33 can be completely stripped without residues after being cleaned for 10min, and the stripping agents B10-B21 with glycerol/pentaerythritol combination or AEO-7 surfactants can be completely removed without residues after being cleaned for 1min, so that the cleaning efficiency is greatly improved, and the cleaning time is shortened, and therefore, the stripping agents B1-B33 have obviously improved cleaning effect on etching residual glue. In addition, the cleaning effect of other organic solvents, surfactants and corrosion inhibitors is discussed in the embodiments B23-B33, and the results show that the cleaning effect can be completely removed in 10min of cleaning time. From the test results, the corrosion inhibitor adopting the combination of at least two of sodium benzoate, methyl benzotriazole, sebacic acid and sodium nitrite has the optimal corrosion inhibition effect, and can achieve the basically corrosion-free effect.
The stripping agent can obviously improve the cleaning efficiency of the semiconductor chip, and is beneficial to reducing the occupancy rate of cleaning equipment in a semiconductor factory, thereby achieving the effects of reducing the purchase of the cleaning equipment and reducing the production operation cost.
While the foregoing is directed to embodiments of the present invention, other and further details of the invention may be had by the present invention, it should be understood that the foregoing description is merely illustrative of the present invention and that no limitations are intended to the scope of the invention, except insofar as modifications, equivalents, improvements or modifications are within the spirit and principles of the invention.