Back-biased face target sputtering
OwnerMakoto Nagashima, Dominik Schmidtinventors
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Abstract
A facing target sputtering device for semiconductor fabrication includes an air-tight chamber in which an inert gas is admittable and exhaustible; a pair of target plates placed at opposite ends of said air-tight chamber respectively so as to face each other and form a plasma region therebetween; a pair of magnets respectively disposed adjacent to said target plates such that magnet poles of different polarities face each other across said plasma region thereby to establish a magnetic field of said plasma region between said target plates; a substrate holder disposed adjacent to said plasma region, said substrate holder adapted to hold a substrate on which an alloyed thin film is to be deposited; and a back-bias power supply coupled to the substrate holder.
Claims20
A facing targets sputtering device for semiconductor fabrication, comprising:
- an air-tight chamber in which an inert gas is admittable and exhaustible;
- a pair of target plates placed at opposite ends of said air-tight chamber respectively so as to face each other and form a plasma region therebetween;
- a pair of magnets respectively disposed adjacent to said target plates such that magnet poles of different polarities face each other across said plasma region thereby to establish a magnetic field of said plasma region between said target plates;
- a substrate holder disposed adjacent to said plasma region, said substrate holder adapted to hold a substrate on which an alloyed thin film is to be deposited;
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- a back-bias power supply coupled to the substrate holder.
A method for sputtering a thin film onto a substrate, comprising:
- providing at least one target and a substrate having a film-forming surface portion and a back portion;
- creating a magnetic field so that the film-forming surface portion is placed in the magnetic field with the magnetic field induced normal to the substrate surface portion
- back-biasing the back portion of the substrate;
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- sputtering material onto the film-forming surface portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.