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公开(公告)号:US20230317449A1
公开(公告)日:2023-10-05
申请号:US18003133
申请日:2021-07-27
发明人: Awnish Gupta , Bart J. Van Schravendijk , Jason Alexander Varnell , Joseph R. Abel , Jennifer Leigh Petraglia , Adrien LaVoie
IPC分类号: H01L21/02 , H01L21/311 , H01J37/32 , C23C16/52
CPC分类号: H01L21/0234 , C23C16/52 , H01J37/32449 , H01L21/02164 , H01L21/02211 , H01L21/02274 , H01L21/0228 , H01L21/31116 , H01J2237/3321
摘要: Various embodiments herein relate to methods and apparatus for depositing doped and undoped silicon-containing films having a high degree of purity. In one example, the method includes exposing the substrate to a first reactant and a second reactant; reacting the first and second reactants with one another to form a silicon-containing material and depositing a portion of the silicon-containing film on the substrate; before the silicon-containing film is complete, performing an impurity reduction operation including: (i) generating a plasma from a plasma generation gas comprising inert gas and hydrogen, where the plasma generation gas is substantially free of oxygen, and (ii) exposing the substrate to the plasma to thereby reduce a concentration of fluorine, carbon, hydrogen, and/or nitrogen in the silicon-containing film; and repeating these operations (or a subset thereof) until the silicon-containing film is deposited to a final thickness.
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公开(公告)号:US20240167153A1
公开(公告)日:2024-05-23
申请号:US18283796
申请日:2022-03-25
发明人: Awnish Gupta , Douglas Walter Agnew , Bart Jan van Schravendijk , Joseph R. Abel , Frank L. Pasquale , Adrien Lavoie
IPC分类号: C23C16/455 , C23C16/56
CPC分类号: C23C16/45536 , C23C16/45512 , C23C16/45534 , C23C16/56
摘要: In one example, a method for depositing a film on a substrate comprises arranging a substrate on a substrate support in a processing chamber and setting a processing pressure, temperature and pressure in the chamber. The method includes striking a plasma and depositing and annealing the film on the substrate at a thickness in a predetermined film thickness range.
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公开(公告)号:US20190043876A1
公开(公告)日:2019-02-07
申请号:US16052401
申请日:2018-08-01
IPC分类号: H01L27/11556 , H01L27/11582 , G11C16/04
摘要: Methods and apparatuses for selectively depositing silicon nitride (SiN) via high-density plasma chemical vapor deposition (HDP CVD) to form a SiN pad on an exposed flat surface of a nitride layer in a 3D NAND staircase structure with alternating oxide and nitride layers are provided. In some embodiments, selective etching is performed to remove undesirable buildup of SiN on sidewalls of the oxide layers of the staircase structure. Nitride layers of the staircase structure are replaced with tungsten (W) to form tungsten wordlines, while the SiN pads are replaced with tungsten to from landing pads, which prevent punchthrough of the tungsten wordlines on the staircase structure by interconnects extending thereto.
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公开(公告)号:US12037686B2
公开(公告)日:2024-07-16
申请号:US17622019
申请日:2020-06-22
IPC分类号: C23C16/26 , C23C16/455
CPC分类号: C23C16/45536 , C23C16/26 , C23C16/45534
摘要: A method for depositing carbon on a substrate in a processing chamber includes arranging the substrate on a substrate support in the processing chamber. The substrate includes a carbon film having a first thickness formed on at least one underlying layer of the substrate. The method further includes performing a first etching step to etch the substrate to form features on the substrate, remove portions of the carbon film, and decrease the first thickness of the carbon film, selectively depositing carbon onto remaining portions of the carbon film, and performing at least one second etching step to etch the substrate to complete the forming of the features on the substrate.
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公开(公告)号:US20230245896A1
公开(公告)日:2023-08-03
申请号:US18003098
申请日:2021-07-21
发明人: Awnish Gupta , Bart J. Van Schravendijk , Frank Loren Pasquale , Adrien LaVoie , Jason Alexander Varnell , Praneeth Ramasagaram , Joseph R. Abel , Jennifer Leigh Petraglia , Dustin Zachary Austin
IPC分类号: H01L21/311 , C23C16/56 , C23C16/04 , C23C16/06 , C23C16/34 , C23C16/40 , H01J37/32 , H01L21/02
CPC分类号: H01L21/31116 , C23C16/56 , C23C16/045 , C23C16/06 , C23C16/345 , C23C16/401 , H01J37/32449 , H01J37/32724 , H01J37/32816 , H01L21/02164 , H01L21/0217 , H01L21/0228 , H01L21/76831
摘要: Methods and apparatuses for depositing dielectric films into features on semiconductor substrates are described herein. Methods involve depositing dielectric films by using controlled thermal chemical vapor deposition, with periodic passivation operations and densification to modulate film properties.
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公开(公告)号:US20220238325A1
公开(公告)日:2022-07-28
申请号:US17596096
申请日:2020-06-03
IPC分类号: H01L21/02 , H01J37/32 , C23C16/455 , C23C16/40
摘要: Methods of providing control of film properties during atomic layer deposition using intermittent plasma treatment in-situ are provided herein. Methods include modulating gas flow rate ratios used to generate plasma during intermittent plasma treatment, toggling plasma power, and modulating chamber pressure.
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公开(公告)号:US20230220544A1
公开(公告)日:2023-07-13
申请号:US18000562
申请日:2021-06-01
发明人: Awnish Gupta , Ian John Curtin , Douglas Walter Agnew , Frank Loren Pasquale , Eli Jeon , Adrien LaVoie
IPC分类号: C23C16/40 , C23C16/455
CPC分类号: C23C16/401 , C23C16/45527 , C23C16/45557 , C23C16/45553
摘要: Various embodiments herein relate to methods and apparatus for depositing silicon oxide using thermal ALD or thermal CVD. In one aspect of the disclosed embodiments, a method for depositing silicon oxide is provided, the method including: (a) receiving the substrate in a reaction chamber; (b) introducing a first flow of a first reactant into the reaction chamber and exposing the substrate to the first reactant, where the first reactant includes a silicon-containing reactant; (c) introducing a second flow of a second reactant into the reaction chamber to cause a reaction between the first reactant and the second reactant, (i) where the second reactant includes hydrogen (H2) and an oxygen-containing reactant, (ii) where the reaction deposits silicon oxide on the substrate, and (iii) where the reaction is initiated when a pressure in the reaction chamber is greater than 10 Torr and equal to or less than about 40 Torr.
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公开(公告)号:US20230087976A1
公开(公告)日:2023-03-23
申请号:US17802525
申请日:2021-02-25
发明人: Ian John Curtin , Douglas Walter Agnew , Mamoru Imade , Joseph R. Abel , Awnish Gupta , Adrien Lavoie
IPC分类号: H01L29/76
摘要: A NAND structure and method of fabricating the structure are described. A multi-layer ONON stack is deposited on a Si substrate and a field oxide grown thereon. A portion of the field oxide is removed, and high-aspect-ratio channels are etched in the stack. The channels are filled with a Si oxide using a thermal ALD process. The thermal ALD process includes multiple growth cycles followed by a passivation cycle. Each growth cycle includes treating the surface oxide surface using an inhibitor followed by multiple cycles to deposit the oxide on the treated surface using a precursor and source of the oxide. The passivation after the growth cycle removes the residual inhibitor. The Si oxide is recess etched using a wet chemical etch of DHF and then capped using a poly-Si cap.
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公开(公告)号:US20220375721A1
公开(公告)日:2022-11-24
申请号:US17755141
申请日:2020-10-23
摘要: Radio frequency power conveyed to individual process stations of a multi-station integrated circuit fabrication chamber may be adjusted so as to bring the rates at which fabrication processes occur, and/or fabrication process results, into alignment with one another. Such adjustment in radio frequency power, which may be accomplished via adjusting one or more reactive elements of a RF distribution network, may give rise to an imbalance in power delivered to each individual process station.
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公开(公告)号:US20210384029A1
公开(公告)日:2021-12-09
申请号:US17045629
申请日:2019-04-08
IPC分类号: H01L21/02 , H01L21/027 , H01J37/32 , C23C16/455 , G03F7/16
摘要: Methods and apparatuses for modifying a wafer surface using an organosilicon precursor are provided herein. The wafer surface is dosed with the organosilicon precursor following deposition of a dielectric material by an atomic layer deposition (ALD) process. In some implementations, the dielectric layer is made of silicon oxide. Dosing the wafer surface with the organosilicon precursor may occur in the same chamber as the ALD process. The organosilicon precursor may modify the wafer surface to increase its hydrophobicity so that photoresist adhesion is improved on the wafer surface. In some implementations, the wafer surface may be exposed to an inert gas RF plasma after dosing the wafer surface with the organosilicon precursor.
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