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Number: 257/E21.226
Name: Active solid-state devices (e.g., transistors, solid-state diodes) > Processes or apparatus adapted for manufacture or treatment of semiconductor or solid-state devices or of parts thereof (epo) > Manufacture or treatment of semiconductor device (epo) > Device having at least one potential-jump barrier or surface barrier, e.g., pn junction, depletion layer, carrier concentration layer (epo) > Device having semiconductor body comprising group iv elements or group iii-v compounds with or without impurities, e.g., doping materials (epo) > Treatment of semiconductor body using process other than deposition of semiconductor material on a substrate, diffusion or alloying of impurity material, or radiation treatment (epo) > To change their surface-physical characteristics or shape, e.g., etching, polishing, cutting (epo) > Chemical or electrical treatment, e.g., electrolytic etching (epo) > Chemical cleaning (epo) > Dry cleaning (epo)
Description: This subclass is indented under subclass E21.224. This subclass is substantially the same in scope as ECLA classification H01L21/306N2.


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Class Number Class Name Patents
257/E21.227 With gaseous hydrogen fluoride (hf) (epo) 78


Patents under this class:
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Patent Number Title Of Patent Date Issued
7582536 Electronic device with reduced interface charge between epitaxially grown layers and a method for making the same Sep. 1, 2009
7566662 Method of dry cleaning silicon surface prior to forming self-aligned nickel silicide layer Jul. 28, 2009
7544603 Method of fabricating silicon nitride layer and method of fabricating semiconductor device Jun. 9, 2009
7524769 Method and system for removing an oxide from a substrate Apr. 28, 2009
7514357 Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device Apr. 7, 2009
7504267 Apparatus and method for cleaning glass substrates using a cool hydrogen flame Mar. 17, 2009
7479416 Thin film transistor array panel and manufacturing method thereof Jan. 20, 2009
7476609 Forming of a cavity in an insulating layer Jan. 13, 2009
7452810 Method of forming a barrier layer of a semiconductor device Nov. 18, 2008
7452822 Via plug formation in dual damascene process Nov. 18, 2008
7442639 Method of forming plug of semiconductor device Oct. 28, 2008
7432208 Method of manufacturing suspension structure Oct. 7, 2008
7393784 Method of manufacturing suspension structure and chamber Jul. 1, 2008
7342290 Semiconductor metal contamination reduction for ultra-thin gate dielectrics Mar. 11, 2008
7335521 Method for the production of multilayer discs Feb. 26, 2008
7276447 Plasma dielectric etch process including ex-situ backside polymer removal for low-dielectric constant material Oct. 2, 2007
7208428 Method and apparatus for treating article to be treated Apr. 24, 2007
7169704 Method of cleaning a surface of a water in connection with forming a barrier layer of a semiconductor device Jan. 30, 2007
7071095 Barrier metal re-distribution process for resistivity reduction Jul. 4, 2006
7067399 Method and apparatus for removal of surface contaminants from substrates in vacuum applications Jun. 27, 2006
7067433 Method to reduce the fluorine contamination on the Al/Al-Cu pad by a post high cathod temperature plasma treatment Jun. 27, 2006
7055532 Method to remove fluorine residue from bond pads Jun. 6, 2006
7056809 Method for ion treating a semiconductor material for subsequent bonding Jun. 6, 2006
7018929 Method for reducing a low volatility byproduct from a wafer surface following an etching process Mar. 28, 2006
7018925 Post high voltage gate oxide pattern high-vacuum outgas surface treatment Mar. 28, 2006
6992011 Method and apparatus for removing material from chamber and wafer surfaces by high temperature hydrogen-containing plasma Jan. 31, 2006
6979611 Method for fabricating semiconductor device Dec. 27, 2005
6979633 Method of manufacturing semiconductor device Dec. 27, 2005
6977229 Manufacturing method for semiconductor devices Dec. 20, 2005
6958286 Method of preventing surface roughening during hydrogen prebake of SiGe substrates Oct. 25, 2005
6949472 Method for high kinetic energy plasma barrier deposition Sep. 27, 2005
6946401 Plasma treatment for copper oxide reduction Sep. 20, 2005
6933228 Method of manufacturing of contact plug in a contact hole on a silicon substrate Aug. 23, 2005
6930771 Optical inspection equipment for semiconductor wafers with precleaning Aug. 16, 2005
6927198 Methods and apparatus for cleaning semiconductor substrates after polishing of copper film Aug. 9, 2005
6924239 Method for removal of hydrocarbon contamination on gate oxide prior to non-thermal nitridation using "spike" radical oxidation Aug. 2, 2005
6913654 Method for the removal of airborne molecular contaminants using water gas mixtures Jul. 5, 2005
6908567 Contaminant removal by laser-accelerated fluid Jun. 21, 2005
6894294 System and method for reducing charged particle contamination May. 17, 2005
6890859 Methods of forming semiconductor structures having reduced defects, and articles and devices formed thereby May. 10, 2005
6887794 Pre-cleaning method of substrate for semiconductor device May. 3, 2005
6869500 Method for processing a wafer and apparatus for performing the same Mar. 22, 2005
6867147 Method of surface treatment of semiconductor Mar. 15, 2005
6858503 Depletion to avoid cross contamination Feb. 22, 2005
6855207 Apparatus and system for eliminating contaminants on a substrate surface Feb. 15, 2005
6852242 Cleaning of multicompositional etchant residues Feb. 8, 2005
6848454 Method of manufacturing semiconductor device Feb. 1, 2005
6840249 Method for cleaning a semiconductor device Jan. 11, 2005
6838396 Bilayer ultra-thin gate dielectric and process for semiconductor metal contamination reduction Jan. 4, 2005
6837963 Semiconductor device, method of producing a semiconductor device, and semiconductor substrate cleaning apparatus used for the production method Jan. 4, 2005

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