Method of forming thin film
AssigneeSoulbrain Co., Ltd.
InventorsSeung Hyun Lee, Jae Sun Jung, Chang Bong Yeon, Deok Hyun Kim
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Abstract
Disclosed is a method of forming a thin film, a semiconductor substrate fabricated using the method, and a semiconductor device including the semiconductor substrate. By effectively replacing the ligand of an adsorption precursor by using a reaction surface pretreatment agent and a ligand substitution agent in combination, the reaction speed may be improved and the thin film growth rate may be appropriately reduced. In addition, even when forming a thin film on a substrate with a complex structure, step coverage and the thickness uniformity of a thin film may be greatly improved, impurities may be reduced, and film quality may be improved.
Claims10
A method of forming a thin film, comprising:
- injecting a reaction surface pretreatment agent into a chamber to shield a surface of a loaded substrate;
- injecting a precursor compound into the chamber and adsorbing the precursor compound onto the surface of the shielded substrate;
- injecting a ligand substitution agent into the chamber to perform ligand substitution of the adsorbed precursor compound;
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- injecting a reaction gas into the chamber to form a thin film,
- wherein the reaction surface pretreatment agent comprises one or more selected from compounds represented by Chemical Formulas 1 to 4 below;
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- wherein the ligand substitution agent comprises one or more selected from hydrogen iodide, hydrogen iodide water, methyl iodide, ethyl iodide, propyl iodide, butyl iodide, isopropyl iodide, and tert-butyl iodide;
- wherein, in Chemical Formulas 1 to 4, R1 and R2 are independently H or an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms;
- R3, R4, and R5 are independently H or -(Me)z-CH3, wherein Me is a saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon with 1 to 3 carbon atoms, and z is an integer from 0 to 4;
- R′ and R″ are independently hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, an alkene group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, or an alkoxy group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms;
- A is oxygen (O), sulfur(S), phosphorus (P), nitrogen (N),—CH, or —CH2;
- B is —OH, —OCH3, —OCH2CH3, —CH2CH3, —SH, —SCH3, or —SCH2CH3;
- X is fluorine (F), chlorine (Cl), bromine (Br), or iodine (I);
- Y is carbon (C) or silicon (Si);
- n is an integer from 1 to 4;
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- m is an integer from 0 to 3.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.