Method for forming film
AssigneeTokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
InventorTomo Ueno
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Abstract
In a film-forming process of depositing gaseous molecules each composed of plural atoms onto a substrate or reacting the gaseous molecules with the constituting elements of the substrate to form a compound film onto the substrate, the plasma, having excited inert gaseous molecules with higher metastable excited states than the ones required to dissociate the gaseous molecules into their elements and the gaseous molecules, is generated and then, the gaseous molecules are dissociated into their elements before being deposited into the substrate. As a result, dissociation of the gaseous molecules onto the substrate is not required, leading to lowering the temperature of the film-forming process.
Claims10
A film-forming method of supplying gaseous molecules, each composed of plural atoms, onto a substrate, said film-forming method comprising:
- providing a silicon substrate;
- providing a mixture of an inert gas component containing only at least one of a Kr gas end a Xe gas and a gas component containing maid gaseous molecules, the gaseous molecules containing the constituting elements of a silicon compound to be film-formed onto the substrate;
- generating a plasma of said mixture, to excite molecules of said inert gas, and thus, to excite said gaseous molecules through the collision between said excited molecules of said inert gas and said gaseous molecules to a quasi-stable level energy required to dissociate said gaseous molecules into their respective elements;
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- supplying said elements of said gaseous molecules onto said substrate.
A film-forming method of supplying gaseous molecule, each composed of plural atoms, onto a substrate, said film-forming method comprising:
- providing a substrate;
- providing a mixture of an inert gas component containing at least one of a Kr gas and a Xe gas and a gas component containing said gaseous molecules;
- generating a plasma of said mixture, to excite molecules of said inert gas, and thus, to excite said gaseous molecules through the collision between said excited molecules of said inert gas and said gaseous molecules to a quasi-stable level energy required to dissociate said gaseous molecules into their respective elements;
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- supplying said elements of said gaseous molecules onto said substrate,
- said substrate being a silicon substrate;
- said gaseous molecules containing Si elements and nitrogen molecules to be dissociated into their respective elements;
- said inert gas component further containing He gas.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.