Patent ID: 8067258

Claim:
A method of protecting a substrate during fabrication of semiconductor or MEMS devices, the method comprising: receiving a substrate during fabrication of semiconductor or MEMS devices; applying a thin film coating over said substrate, said thin film coating having a thickness ranging from about 3 angstroms to about 1,000 angstroms, wherein a precursor material used to deposit said thin film coating is an organic-based precursor which includes at least one fluorine-comprising functional group at one end of a carbon back bone and at least one functional bonding group at the opposite end of said carbon backbone, wherein said carbon backbone ranges in length from 4 carbons to about 12 carbons; performing a process operation on the substrate after applying the thin film coating, the thin film coating protecting the substrate during the performance of the process operation; and selectively removing portions of said thin film coating from the substrate after performing the process operation to expose areas for connection to adjunct devices.