High step coverage silicon oxide thin films
OwnerJose R. Machado, Terry A. Francis +1inventors
InventorsJose R. Machado, Terry A. Francis, Hans P. W. Hey
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Abstract
A process for preparing high step coverage silicon dioxide coatings on semiconductor wafers comprising the placing of the wafer to be coated in a process chamber, introducing disilane and nitrous oxide into the process chamber and maintaining the wafer in an atmosphere consisting essentially of a gaseous mixture of disilane and nitrous oxide and initiating and maintaining plasma enhanced chemical vacuum deposition of silicon dioxide from said gaseous mixture by applying radio frequency energy to the wafer to create a plasma adjacent the surface of said wafer is disclosed.
Claims5
The process for preparing high step coverage silicon dioxide coatings on semiconductor wafers in the manufacture of semiconductor devices comprising the steps of:
- placing a silicon semiconductor wafer having surface discontinuities with a width/height aspect ratio of between 1.5 and 2.0 to be coated in a process chamber;
- heating the wafer in the process chamber to a temperature of from about 200.degree. C,. to about 400.degree. C., and maintaining said temperature during the deposition of silicon dioxide;
- maintaining the pressure in the process chamber at from about 1 to 3 torr during the deposition of silicon dioxide;
- introducing a mixture consisting essentially of disilane and nitrous oxide into the process chamber and maintaining the wafer in an atmosphere consisting essentially of a gaseous mixture of disilane and nitrous oxide;
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- initiating and maintaining plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition of silicon dioxide from said gaseous mixture by applying radio frequency energy at about 0.04 W/cm.sup.2 to 0.12 W/cm.sup.2 to the wafer to create a plasma adjacent the surface of said wafer to produce. a coating having a high step coverage of at least 0.55 at an aspect ratio on the wafer between 1.5 and 2.0.
The process for preparing high step coverage silicon dioxide coatings on semiconductor wafers in the manufacture of semiconductor devices comprising the steps of:
- placing a silicon semiconductor wafer to be coated having surface discontinuities with a width/height aspect ratio of at least about 1.5 in a process chamber;
- heating the wafer in the process chamber to a temperature of from about 200.degree. C. to about 400.degree. C. and maintaining said temperature during the deposition of silicon dioxide;
- maintaining the pressure in the process chamber at from about 1 to 3 torr during the deposition of silicon dioxide;
- introducing a mixture consisting essentially of disilane and nitrous oxide into the process chamber and maintaining the wafer in an atmosphere consisting essentially of a gaseous mixture of disilane and nitrous oxide;
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- initiating and maintaining plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition of silicon dioxide from said gaseous mixture by applying radio frequency energy at about 0.04 W/cm.sup.2 to the wafer to create a plasma adjacent the surface of said wafer to produce a coating having a high step coverage of at least about 0.7 at an aspect ratio on the wafer of 1.5 or greater.
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