Patents by Inventor Hironori Mizuta

Hironori Mizuta has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20120157368
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to provide a semiconductor surface treating agent composition which is capable of stripping an anti-reflection coating layer, a resist layer, and a cured resist layer in the production process of a semiconductor device and the like easily and in a short time, as well as a method for treating a semiconductor surface, comprising that the composition is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: WAKO PURE CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hironori Mizuta, Takuhiro Kimura
  • Publication number: 20120000485
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cleaning agent for a substrate and a cleaning method thereof, which can effectively remove fine particles (particles) present on a surface of substrate or impurities derived from various kinds of metals (metallic impurities), without causing roughness surface of a substrate, in particular, a semiconductor substrate, and without causing corrosion or oxidation of metal wirings, in particular, copper wirings, provided on a surface of substrate, and can further remove at the same time a carbon defect present on a surface of substrate, without removing a metal corrosion inhibitor—Cu film, in particular, a Cu-BTA film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: WAKO PURE CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hironori Mizuta, Masahiko Kakizawa, Ichiro Hayashida
  • Publication number: 20110021400
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor surface treating agent composition, which can realize easy removing of an anti-reflection coating layer in a production process of a semiconductor device or the like at a low temperature in a short time, a method for treating a semiconductor surface using the same, and further a semiconductor surface treating agent composition, which can realize not only removing of both layer of an anti-reflection coating layer and a resist layer, but can realize even removing of a cured resist layer produced in an etching process, and a method for treating a semiconductor surface using the same. The semiconductor surface treating agent composition of the present invention is characterized by comprising a compound which generates a fluorine ion in water, a carbon radical generating agent, and water and optionally an organic solvent, and the method for treating a semiconductor surface of the present invention is characterized by using the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: WAKO PURE CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hironori Mizuta, Osamu Matsuda
  • Patent number: 7700532
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid cleaner for a semiconductor substrate on which metal wiring may be provided, comprising each component of a chelating agent or a salt thereof shown by the following general formula (1), an alkaline compound and pure water, wherein pH is 8 to 13: (wherein, Y1 and Y2 are lower alkylene groups, n is an integer of 0 to 4, at least 4 of R1 to R4 and n R5s are alkyl groups having phosphonic acid group(s) and the rest are alkyl groups) and a cleaning method using the same. The present invention provides a liquid cleaner which can efficiently remove fine particles or impurities derived from various metals at semiconductor substrate surface, even when used after a process adopting an alkaline polishing agent or alkaline etching liquid, without generating problems of causing difficult-to-remove gelled particles at the substrate surface or easy generation of rough semiconductor substrate surface, and a cleaning method using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Wako Pure Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Hayashida, Hironori Mizuta, Takehisa Kato
  • Patent number: 7375066
    Abstract: A semiconductor surface cleaning agent containing a compound the molecule of which has a nitrogen atom having an unshared electron pair and used for cleaning the surface of a semiconductor on which copper wiring is provided, and a method for cleaning the surface of a semiconductor characterized by treating the surface of a semiconductor on which copper wiring is provided with such a cleaning agent. The cleaning agent does not corrode the copper wiring (copper thin film) on the semiconductor and SiO2 of the interlayer insulating film, does not impair the flatness of the surface, and is effective in removing CuO and particles adhering to the surface of the Cu-CMP step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: Wako Pure Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiko Kakizawa, Mayumi Kimura, Hironori Mizuta, Ichiro Hayashida
  • Publication number: 20070235061
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cleaning agent for a substrate and a cleaning method thereof, which can effectively remove fine particles (particles) present on a surface of substrate or impurities derived from various kinds of metals (metallic impurities), without causing roughness surface of a substrate, in particular, a semiconductor substrate, and without causing corrosion or oxidation of metal wirings, in particular, copper wirings, provided on a surface of substrate, and can further remove at the same time a carbon defect present on a surface of substrate, without removing a metal corrosion inhibitor—Cu film, in particular, a Cu-BTA film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2004
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Applicant: WAKO PURE CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hironori Mizuta, Masahiko Kakizawa, Ichiro Hayashida
  • Publication number: 20060154838
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid cleaner for a semiconductor substrate on which metal wiring may be provided, comprising each component of a chelating agent or a salt thereof shown by the following general formula (1), an alkaline compound and pure water, wherein pH is 8 to 13: (wherein, Y1 and Y2 are lower alkylene groups, n is an integer of 0 to 4, at least 4 of R1 to R4 and n R5s are alkyl groups having phosphonic acid group(s) and the rest are alkyl groups) and a cleaning method using the same. The present invention provides a liquid cleaner which can efficiently remove fine particles or impurities derived from various metals at semiconductor substrate surface, even when used after a process adopting an alkaline polishing agent or alkaline etching liquid, without generating problems of causing difficult-to-remove gelled particles at the substrate surface or easy generation of rough semiconductor substrate surface, and a cleaning method using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2003
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Applicant: WAKO PURE CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES
    Inventors: Ichiro Hayashida, Hironori Mizuta, Takehisa Kato
  • Publication number: 20030083214
    Abstract: A semiconductor surface cleaning agent containing a compound the molecule of which has a nitrogen atom having an unshared electron pair and used for cleaning the surface of a semiconductor on which copper wiring is provided, and a method for cleaning the surface of a semiconductor characterized by treating the surface of a semiconductor on which copper wiring is provided with such a cleaning agent The cleaning agent does not corrode the copper wiring (copper thin film) on the semiconductor and SiO2 of the interlayer insulating film, does not impair the flatness of the surface, and is effective in removing CuO and particles adhering to the surface at the Cu-CMP step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2002
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Inventors: Masahiko Kakizawa, Mayumi Kimura, Hironori Mizuta, Ichiro Hayashida