Thin film forming method and thin film forming device
AssigneeTokyo Electron Limited
InventorsHideaki Yamasaki, Yumiko Kawano
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for forming a thin film using the ALD process. Prior to the ALD process where each of a plurality of source gasses is supplied one by one, plural times, a pretreatment process is performed in which the source gasses are simultaneously supplied to shorten an incubation period and improve throughput.
Claims12
A method for forming a thin film on a substrate by causing a plurality of source gasses to react on the substrate, comprising:
- (a) pretreating the substrate by simultaneously supplying at least two source gasses of said plurality of source gasses;
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- (b) after pretreating the substrate, separately supplying each different source gas of said plurality of source gasses a predetermined number of times to form the thin film;
- wherein there is no separate supplying of source gasses before the pretreatment step.
A method for forming a thin film on a substrate by causing a plurality of source gasses to react on the substrate comprising:
- (a) pretreating the substrate by simultaneously supplying a first source gas having an ingredient of the thin film and a second source gas reacting with the first source gas;
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- (b) performing an atomic layer deposition step after the pretreatment by separately supplying a third source gas having an ingredient of the thin film and a fourth source gas reacting with the third gas a predetermined number of times;
- wherein there is no separate supplying of source gasses before the pretreatment step.
A method for pretreating a substrate for an atomic layer deposition process used to form a thin film, the pretreating method comprising:
- providing the substrate in a chamber having a predetermined pressure;
- heating the substrate to a predetermined temperature;
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- after heating the substrate, simultaneously supplying first and second source gasses, the first source gas having an ingredient of the thin film, the second source gas reacting with the first source gas;
- wherein there is no separately supplying of the first and second source gasses prior to the simultaneously supplying step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.