The CESL film is etched to expose the pad oxide while preserving the strain-inducing properties of the remaining CESL over the transistor [P1].
The CESL 1 - Etch step is a critical phase in the contact module of the 40nm BSI CMOS Image Sensor flow, executed immediately after the PMD and CESL 2 etche…
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