Sequential pulse deposition
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1. A method of forming a film on a substrate, comprising:
- flowing a precursor gas into a reaction chamber containing the substrate;
flowing a reactant gas into the reaction chamber; and
wherein the precursor gas and the reactant gas are sequentially pulsed into the chamber.
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Abstract
A method for growing films on substrates using sequentially pulsed precursors and reactants, system and devices for performing the method, semiconductor devices so produced, and machine readable media containing the method.
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90 Claims
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1. A method of forming a film on a substrate, comprising:
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flowing a precursor gas into a reaction chamber containing the substrate;
flowing a reactant gas into the reaction chamber; and
wherein the precursor gas and the reactant gas are sequentially pulsed into the chamber. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A method of forming a film on a substrate, comprising:
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flowing a precursor gas into a reaction chamber containing the substrate;
flowing a reactant gas into the reaction chamber;
reacting the precursor gas with the reaction gas adjacent the substrate to deposit a layer of the film on the substrate; and
wherein flowing the reactant gas into the chamber occurs after stopping the flow of the precursor gas. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method of forming a film on a substrate, comprising:
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flowing a precursor gas into a reaction chamber containing the substrate;
flowing a reactant gas into the reaction chamber;
wherein the precursor gas and the reactant gas are sequentially pulsed into the chamber; and
flowing an inert purge gas into the chamber in between flowing the precursor gas and the reactant gas. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19)
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13. A method of forming a film on a substrate, comprising:
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flowing a PT and Rh precursor gases into a reaction chamber containing the substrate;
flowing a N2O gas into the reaction chamber; and
wherein the Pt and Rh precursor gases and the N2O gas are sequentially pulsed into the chamber.
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16. A method of forming a film on a substrate, comprising:
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flowing a precursor gas into a reaction chamber containing the substrate;
flowing a reactant gas into the reaction chamber;
wherein the precursor gas and the reactant gas are sequentially pulsed into the chamber; and
wherein flowing precursor gas includes saturating precursor near the surface of the substrate so that steps in the substrate are generally covered by precursor.
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20. A method of forming a film on a substrate, comprising:
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flowing a precursor gas into a reaction chamber containing the substrate;
flowing a reactant gas into the reaction chamber;
heating the chamber to facilitate the chemical reaction of the precursor and the reactant to deposit a film on the substrate; and
wherein the precursor gas and the reactant gas are sequentially pulsed into the chamber. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29)
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25. A method of forming a film on a substrate, comprising:
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flowing a precursor gas into a reaction chamber containing the substrate;
flowing a reactant gas into the reaction chamber;
wherein flowing the precursor gas and the reactant gas includes sequentially pulsing the precursor gas and the reactant gas into the chamber; and
wherein the precursor includes a source of at least one of a metal selected from the group consisting of rhenium, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, silver, osmium, iridium, platinum and gold.
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26. A method of forming a film on a substrate, comprising:
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flowing a precursor gas into a reaction chamber containing the substrate;
stopping flow of precursor gas;
flowing a reactant gas into the reaction chamber; and
wherein flowing the reactant gas into the chamber occurs essentially simultaneously with stopping the flow of the precursor gas.
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30. A method of forming a film on a substrate, comprising:
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flowing a precursor gas into a reaction chamber containing the substrate;
stopping flow of the precursor gas;
flowing a reactant gas into the reaction chamber;
reacting the precursor gas with the reaction gas adjacent the substrate to deposit a layer of the film on the substrate; and
wherein flowing the reactant gas into the chamber occurs essentially simultaneously with stopping the flow of the precursor gas. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 39, 40, 41)
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36. A method of forming a film on a substrate, comprising:
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flowing a precursor gas into a reaction chamber containing the substrate;
flowing a reactant gas into the reaction chamber;
wherein flowing the reactant gas into the chamber occurs essentially simultaneously with stopping the flow of the precursor gas; and
flowing an inert purge gas into the chamber while flowing at least one of the precursor gas and the reactant gas.
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38. A method of forming a film on a substrate, comprising:
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flowing Pt and Rh gases into a reaction chamber containing the substrate;
flowing a reactant gas into the reaction chamber; and
wherein flowing the reactant gas occurs essentially simultaneously with stopping the flow of the Pt and Rh gases.
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42. A method of forming a film on a substrate, comprising:
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flowing a precursor gas into a reaction chamber containing the substrate;
stopping flow of the precursor gas;
flowing a reactant gas into the reaction chamber;
wherein flowing the reactant gas into the chamber occurs essentially simultaneously with stopping the flow of the precursor gas; and
wherein flowing precursor gas includes saturating precursor near the surface of the substrate so that steps in the substrate are generally covered by precursor. - View Dependent Claims (43, 44, 46, 47)
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45. A method of forming a film on a substrate, comprising:
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flowing a precursor gas into a reaction chamber containing the substrate;
flowing a reactant gas into the reaction chamber;
heating the chamber to facilitate the chemical reaction of the precursor and the reactant to deposit a film on the substrate; and
wherein flowing the reactant gas into the chamber occurs essentially simultaneously with stopping the flow of the precursor gas.
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48. A method of forming a film on a substrate, comprising:
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flowing a precursor gas into a reaction chamber containing the substrate;
stopping flow of the precursor gas;
flowing a reactant gas into the reaction chamber;
wherein flowing the reactant gas into the chamber occurs essentially simultaneously with stopping the flow of the precursor gas; and
wherein the precursor includes at least one of a metal selected from the group consisting of rhenium, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, silver, osmium, iridium, platinum and gold.
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49. A method of forming a metal or dielectric film on a substrate, comprising:
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flowing a precursor gas into a reaction chamber containing the substrate so that the precursor gas is adjacent the substrate, the precursor gas containing one of a metal and a dielectric to be deposited on the substrate;
flowing a reactant gas into the reaction chamber;
reacting the precursor gas with the reaction gas adjacent the substrate to deposit multiple atomic layers of the film during each reacting step;
repeating the above steps until the film has a desired thickness; and
the flowing of the reactant gas into the chamber occurs after stopping the flow of the precursor gas.
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50. A semiconductor device, comprising:
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a substrate; and
a first layer deposited on the substrate, wherein the first layer is deposited by sequentially pulsing a precursor gas and a reactant into a reaction chamber, and wherein the precursor gas and reactant react to deposit the first layer on the substrate. - View Dependent Claims (51, 52, 53, 54)
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55. A memory device in an integrated circuit, comprising:
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a substrate; and
a first layer deposited on the substrate, wherein the first layer is essentially devoid of contaminants, the first layer is deposited by sequentially pulsing a precursor gas and a reactant into a reaction chamber, and wherein the precursor gas and reactant react predominately adjacent the substrate to deposit the first layer on the substrate, the first layer being part of the memory device. - View Dependent Claims (56, 58, 60, 61, 62)
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57. A logic device in an integrated circuit, comprising:
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a substrate; and
a first layer deposited on the substrate, wherein the first layer is essentially devoid of contaminants, the first layer is deposited by sequentially pulsing a precursor gas and a reactant into a reaction chamber, and wherein the precursor gas and reactant react predominately adjacent the substrate to deposit the first layer on the substrate, the first layer being part of a logic device.
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59. A semiconductor device, comprising:
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a substrate;
a first layer of a film deposited on the substrate, wherein the first layer is deposited by injecting a pulse of precursor gas into a chamber containing the substrate and injecting a pulse of reactant gas into the chamber, wherein the precursor and the reactant react to deposit the first layer on the substrate; and
a second layer of the film deposited on the first layer of the film, wherein the second layer is deposited by injecting a pulse of precursor gas into a chamber containing the substrate and injecting a pulse of reactant gas into the chamber, wherein the precursor and the reactant react to deposit the second layer on the first layer, and still further wherein the pulses of precursor gas and reactant gas are separate.
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63. A deposition device for forming films on substrates, comprising:
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a reaction chamber;
a source of precursor gas;
a source of reactant gas;
a mount for a substrate in the chamber; and
a controller for sequentially pulsing the precursor gas and the reactant gas into the chamber, the precursor gas being first pulsed into the chamber so that the precursor gas is adjacent a surface of the substrate, the reactant gas being pulsed into the chamber to react with the precursor gas to deposit a film on the surface of the substrate. - View Dependent Claims (64)
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65. A machine readable medium having instructions stored thereon, comprising:
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first instructions for causing a chemical vapor deposition reactor to initiate depositing a film on a substrate by injecting a pulse of precursor gas into a reaction chamber; and
second instructions for causing the reactor to inject a pulse of reactant gas into the reaction chamber after the pulse of precursor gas has been injected into the reaction chamber. - View Dependent Claims (66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71)
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72. A chemical vapor deposition system, comprising:
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a chemical vapor deposition reactor;
a control system in communication with the reactor; and
a machine readable medium in communication with the control system, wherein the machine readable medium has;
first instructions for causing the chemical vapor deposition reactor to initiate depositing a film on a substrate by injecting a pulse of precursor gas into a reaction chamber, and second instructions for causing the reactor to inject a pulse of reactant gas into the reaction chamber after the pulse of precursor gas is injected into the reaction chamber. - View Dependent Claims (73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82)
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83. A reactor for forming films on substrates, comprising:
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a reaction chamber;
a first gas source connected to the reaction chamber;
a second gas source connected to the reaction chamber;
a mount for a substrate in the reaction chamber; and
a controller sequentially activating the first gas source and the second gas source such that the first gas is in the reaction chamber adjacent the substrate prior to injecting the second gas into the reaction chamber to form a film on the substrate based on the reaction of the first and second gases in the reaction chamber.
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84. A method of forming a film on a substrate, comprising:
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flowing a reactant gas into the reaction chamber;
thereafter flowing a precursor gas into a reaction chamber containing the substrate; and
wherein the precursor gas and the reactant gas are sequentially pulsed into the chamber.
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85. A method of forming a film on a substrate, comprising:
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flowing a precursor gas into a reaction chamber containing the substrate;
flowing a reactant gas into the reaction chamber;
wherein the precursor gas and the reactant gas are sequentially pulsed into the chamber; and
wherein the amount of at least one of the precursor gas and the reactant gas exceeds the amount required to form the film on the substrate. - View Dependent Claims (86, 87, 88, 89, 90)
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