Method of manufacturing a contact interconnection layer containing a metal and nitrogen by atomic layer deposition for deep sub-micron semiconductor technology
First Claim
1. An atomic layer deposition (ALD) process for depositing a metal nitride layer comprised of a plurality of metal nitride monolayers on a substrate, comprising:
- (a) providing a substrate with a patterned layer formed thereon, the patterned layer comprising an opening;
(b) loading the substrate in an ALD process chamber and adjusting the temperature and pressure in said ALD process chamber to acceptable levels;
(c) flowing a nitrogen containing reactant into said ALD process chamber so that said nitrogen containing reactant is deposited on said substrate;
(d) purging said ALD process chamber with an inert gas to leave a monolayer of nitrogen containing reactant on said substrate;
(e) flowing a metal precursor into said ALD process chamber, said metal precursor reacts with said nitrogen containing reactant monolayer to form a metal nitride monolayer wherein the metal precursor comprises at least one of Ti{OCH(CH3)2}4, and TDEAT;
(f) purging said ALD process chamber to remove unreacted metal precursor; and
(g) repeating the sequence of steps (c), (d), (e), (f) until the metal nitride layer fills the opening to form a metal nitride plug.
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Abstract
An atomic layer deposition method is used to deposit a TiN or TiSiN film having a thickness of about 50 nm or less on a substrat. A titanium precursor which is tetrakis(dimethylamido)titanium (TDMAT), tetrakis(diethylamido)titanium (TDEAT), or Ti{OCH(CH3)2}4 avoids halide contamination from a titanium halide precursor and is safer to handle than a titanium nitrate. After a monolayer of the titanium precursor is deposited on a substrate, a nitrogen containing reactant is introduced to form a TiN monolayer which is followed by a second purge. For TiSiN, a silicon source gas is fed into the process chamber after the TiN monolayer formation. The process is repeated several times to produce a composite layer comprised of a plurality of monolayers that fills a contact hole. The ALD method is cost effective and affords an interconnect with lower impurity levels and better step coverage than conventional PECVD or CVD processes.
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1. An atomic layer deposition (ALD) process for depositing a metal nitride layer comprised of a plurality of metal nitride monolayers on a substrate, comprising:
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(a) providing a substrate with a patterned layer formed thereon, the patterned layer comprising an opening; (b) loading the substrate in an ALD process chamber and adjusting the temperature and pressure in said ALD process chamber to acceptable levels; (c) flowing a nitrogen containing reactant into said ALD process chamber so that said nitrogen containing reactant is deposited on said substrate; (d) purging said ALD process chamber with an inert gas to leave a monolayer of nitrogen containing reactant on said substrate; (e) flowing a metal precursor into said ALD process chamber, said metal precursor reacts with said nitrogen containing reactant monolayer to form a metal nitride monolayer wherein the metal precursor comprises at least one of Ti{OCH(CH3)2}4, and TDEAT; (f) purging said ALD process chamber to remove unreacted metal precursor; and (g) repeating the sequence of steps (c), (d), (e), (f) until the metal nitride layer fills the opening to form a metal nitride plug. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. An atomic layer deposition (ALD) process for depositing a metal nitride layer comprised of a plurality of metal nitride monolayers on a substrate, comprising:
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(a) providing a substrate with a patterned layer formed thereon, the patterned layer comprises an opening; (b) loading the substrate in an ALD process chamber and adjusting the temperature and pressure in said ALD process chamber to acceptable levels; (c) flowing a metal precursor into said ALD process chamber so that said metal precursor is deposited on said substrate, wherein said metal precursor comprises at least one of Ti{OCH(CH3)2}4, and TDEAT; (d) purging said ALD process chamber with an inert gas to leave a monolayer of metal precursor on said substrate; (e) flowing a nitrogen containing reactant into said ALD process chamber, said nitrogen containing reactant reacts with said metal precursor monolayer to form a metal nitride monolayer; (f) purging said ALD process chamber to remove unreacted nitrogen containing reactant; and (g) repeating the sequence of steps (c), (d), (e), (f) until the metal nitride layer fills the opening to form a metal nitride plug.
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10. A method of forming a metal nitride layer on a substrate, said substrate comprised of an upper dielectric layer having at least one opening, comprising:
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(a) providing a substrate having an upper dielectric layer that has a pattern formed therein comprised of at least one opening; (b) loading the substrate in an ALD process chamber and adjusting the temperature and pressure in said ALD process chamber to acceptable levels; (c) flowing a metal precursor into said ALD process chamber so that said metal precursor is deposited on said substrate, wherein said metal precursor comprises at least one of Ti{OCH(CH3)2}4, and TDEAT; (d) purging said chamber with an inert gas to leave a monolayer of metal precursor on said substrate; (e) flowing a nitrogen containing reactant into said ALD process chamber, said nitrogen containing reactant reacts with said metal precursor monolayer to give a metal nitride monolayer on said substrate; (f) purging said ALD process chamber to remove unreacted nitrogen containing reactant; (g) repeating the sequence of steps (c), (d), (e), (f) to deposit a plurality of metal nitride monolayers which form a composite layer that fills said opening to form a metal nitride plug; and (h) planarizing said composite layer to be coplanar with said dielectric layer. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method for forming an interconnect:
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providing a substrate; forming a conductive layer within the substate; depositing a dielectric layer on the substate; forming an opening within the dielectric layer; depositing a titanium-containing composite layer on the substrate to fill the opening; and planarizing the titanium-containing composite layer to be coplanar with the dielectric layer, wherein depositing the titanium-containing composite layer comprises flowing a metal precursor that comprises at least one of Ti{OCH(CH3)2}4, and TDEAT into a chamber, wherein depositing a composite layer on the substrate further comprises; purging an inert gas into the chamber to remove metal precursor not bonded to the substrate; flowing a nitrogen-containing reactant into the chamber to form one of the plurality of metal nitride monolayer; and purging an inert gas into the chamber to remove nitrogen-containing reactant not reacted with the mental precursor, and wherein the purging step for purging an inert gas to remove metal precursor not bonded to the substrate, the flowing step for flowing a nitrogen-containing reactant into the chamber to form one of the plurality of metal nitride monolayer, and the purging step for purging an inert gas into the chamber to remove nitrogen-containing reactant not reached with the metal precursor are performed repeatedly until the composite layer fills the opening to form a titanium-containing composite plug. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23)
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