A method of manufacturing a metal wire, a method of manufacturing a metal wire grid, a wire grid polarizer, and an electronic device are provided. The method of manufacturing a metal wire includes: forming a metal material layer on a base substrate etching the metal material layer by using a composite gas including an etching gas and a coating reaction gas to form the metal wire and a protective coating layer on a surface of the metal wire.

A method for removing photoresist, an oxidation layer, or both from a semiconductor substrate is disclosed. The method includes placing a substrate in a processing chamber, the processing chamber separate from a plasma chamber for generating a non-oxidizing plasma to be used in treating the substrate; generating a first non-oxidizing plasma from a first reactant gas and a first carrier gas in the plasma chamber, wherein the first non-oxidizing plasma comprises from about 10% to about 40% of the first reactant gas, wherein the first reactant gas has a flow rate of from about 100 standard cubic centimeters per minute to about 15,000 standard cubic centimeters per minute, and wherein the first carrier gas has a flow rate of from about 500 standard cubic centimeters per minute to about 20,000 standard cubic centimeters per minute; and treating the substrate by exposing the substrate to the first non-oxidizing plasma in the processing chamber.

A conventional substrate processing apparatus for generating plasma cannot generate plasma with high density and thus throughput of substrate processing is low. In order to solve this problem, provided is a substrate processing apparatus including a reaction vessel having a tubular shape and provided with a coil installed at an outer circumference thereof; a cover installed at a first end of the reaction vessel; a gas introduction port installed at the cover; a first plate installed between the gas introduction port and an upper end of the coil; a second plate installed between the first plate and the upper end of the coil; a substrate processing chamber installed at a second end of the reaction vessel; and a gas exhaust part connected to the substrate processing chamber.

Processes and apparatuses for the treatment of semiconductor workpieces are provided. In some embodiments, a method can include placing the workpiece in a processing chamber. The processing chamber can be separated from a plasma chamber by a separation grid assembly. The method can include forming a passivation layer on the workpiece in the processing chamber using radicals generated in a first plasma in the plasma chamber. The method can include performing a surface treatment process on the workpiece in the processing chamber using a second plasma generated in the plasma chamber.

Embodiments of the present disclosure generally provide an apparatus and methods for processing a substrate. More particularly, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a processing chamber having an enhanced processing efficiency at an edge of a substrate disposed in the processing chamber. In one embodiment, a processing chamber comprises a chamber body defining an interior processing region in a processing chamber, a showerhead assembly disposed in the processing chamber, wherein the showerhead assembly has multiple zones with an aperture density higher at an edge zone than at a center zone of the showerhead assembly, a substrate support assembly disposed in the interior processing region of the processing chamber, and a focus ring disposed on an edge of the substrate support assembly and circumscribing the substrate support assembly, wherein the focus ring has a step having a sidewall height substantially similar to a bottom width.

A single layer process is utilized to reduce swing effect interference and reflection during imaging of a photoresist. An anti-reflective additive is added to a photoresist, wherein the anti-reflective additive has a dye portion and a reactive portion. Upon dispensing the reactive portion will react with underlying structures to form an anti-reflective coating between the underlying structure and a remainder of the photoresist. During imaging, the anti-reflective coating will either absorb the energy, preventing it from being reflected, or else modify the optical path of reflection, thereby helping to reduce interference caused by the reflected energy.

The radical supply step of supplying the radicals (active species) to the resist film R is performed in the plasma processing (Step S102). Then, the resist removal step of supplying the organic solvent having the low surface tension to the resist film R present on the front surface Sa of the substrate S after the radical supply step to remove the resist film R from the front surface Sa of the substrate S is performed (Step S104).

The substrate processing method is a substrate processing method for removing a resist having a hardened layer from a substrate on a surface of which the resist is formed, including: a substrate holding step of holding the substrate; and a resist stripping step of stripping the resist from the surface of the substrate by supplying ozone gas and superheated steam to a plural-fluid nozzle for producing liquid drops through mixing a plurality of fluids to discharge mixed gas of ozone gas and superheated steam containing liquid drops of ozone water produced by mixing ozone gas and superheated steam from the plural-fluid nozzle toward the surface of the substrate.

A plasma ashing method is provided. The plasma ashing method includes analyzing the process status of each of a number of semiconductor substrate models undergoing a tested plasma ash process by a residue gas analyzer. The tested plasma ash processes for the semiconductor substrate models utilize a plurality of tested recipes. The plasma ashing method further includes selecting one of the tested recipes as a process recipe for a plasma ash process.

The present invention discloses a photoresist-removing solution comprising of an N-containing compound and an organic substance in a mass ratio of 1:(0.5-150). The N-containing compound includes at least one of the followings: tetraalkylammonium hydroxide, ammonia, liquid ammonia, and a mixture of ammonia and water; wherein the tetraalkylammonium hydroxide has the general formula (I):

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wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 is an alkyl with 1 to 4 carbons, respectively. The organic substance is an organic substance having at least one electron-withdrawing functional group. The present invention mixes a specific kind of N-containing compound and a specific kind of organic substance in a certain ratio, and preferably adds a certain amount of water, so that the removal liquid in the present application has an extremely excellent photoresist-removing effect.