申请人:Collins Sian
公开号:US20080116170A1
公开(公告)日:2008-05-22
Composition and a process using the composition for selectively wet etching metal including depositing metal on a silicon surface; applying energy to cause respective portions of the metal and silicon to form silicide, leaving a quantity of unreacted metal; selectively wet etching the unreacted metal by applying to the unreacted metal a composition including HCl, HBr, an ammonium halide, an amine hydrohalide salt, a quaternary ammonium halide, a quaternary phosphonium halide or a mixture of any two or more thereof; a nitrogen oxide compound; a stabilizer for the nitrogen oxide, comprising a glycol, a glyme, an ether, a polyol or a mixture of any two or more thereof; and water. In one embodiment, the composition includes an ammonium halide, an amine hydrohalide salt, a quaternary ammonium halide, a quaternary phosphonium halide or a mixture of any two or more thereof; a nitrogen oxide compound; and water.