Patent 7112834 was granted and assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corporation on September, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method of making a semiconductor structure includes etching an anti-reflective coating layer at a pressure of 10 millitorr or less; etching a nitride layer with a first nitride etch plasma having a first F:C ratio; and etching the nitride layer with a second nitride etch plasma having a second F:C ratio. The first F:C ratio is greater than the second F:C ratio.