Patents Represented by Attorney Antoneilli, Terry, Stout and Kraus, LLP.
  • Patent number: 7078815
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device has a semiconductor substrate, an interlayer insulating film including SiOF films formed on a main surface of the semiconductor substrate, a wiring groove formed by dry etching of the interlayer insulating film, and a Cu wiring buried in the wiring groove by a Damascene method, wherein a silicon oxynitride film is provided between a silicon nitride film serving as an etching stopper layer for the dry etching and the SiOF film, so that free F generated in the SiOF film is trapped with the silicon oxynitride film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Tamaru, Kazutoshi Oomori, Noriko Miura, Hideo Aoki, Takayuki Oshima