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US08668816B2 Self-ionized and inductively-coupled plasma for sputtering and resputtering
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用于溅射和再溅射的自电离和电感耦合等离子体
- 专利标题: Self-ionized and inductively-coupled plasma for sputtering and resputtering
- 专利标题(中): 用于溅射和再溅射的自电离和电感耦合等离子体
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申请号: US11933157申请日: 2007-10-31
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公开(公告)号: US08668816B2公开(公告)日: 2014-03-11
- 发明人: Peijun Ding , Rong Tao , Zheng Xu , Daniel C. Lubben , Suraj Rengarajan , Michael A. Miller , Arvind Sundarrajan , Xianmin Tang , John C. Forster , Jianming Fu , Roderick C. Mosely , Fusen Chen , Praburam Gopalraja
- 申请人: Peijun Ding , Rong Tao , Zheng Xu , Daniel C. Lubben , Suraj Rengarajan , Michael A. Miller , Arvind Sundarrajan , Xianmin Tang , John C. Forster , Jianming Fu , Roderick C. Mosely , Fusen Chen , Praburam Gopalraja
- 申请人地址: US CA Santa Clara
- 专利权人: Applied Materials Inc.
- 当前专利权人: Applied Materials Inc.
- 当前专利权人地址: US CA Santa Clara
- 代理机构: Konrad Raynes Davda & Victor LLP
- 主分类号: C23C14/35
- IPC分类号: C23C14/35
摘要:
A magnetron sputter reactor for sputtering deposition materials such as tantalum, tantalum nitride and copper, for example, and its method of use, in which self-ionized plasma (SIP) sputtering and inductively coupled plasma (ICP) sputtering are promoted, either together or alternately, in the same or different chambers. Also, bottom coverage may be thinned or eliminated by ICP resputtering in one chamber and SIP in another. SIP is promoted by a small magnetron having poles of unequal magnetic strength and a high power applied to the target during sputtering. ICP is provided by one or more RF coils which inductively couple RF energy into a plasma. The combined SIP-ICP layers can act as a liner or barrier or seed or nucleation layer for hole. In addition, an RF coil may be sputtered to provide protective material during ICP resputtering. In another chamber an array of auxiliary magnets positioned along sidewalls of a magnetron sputter reactor on a side towards the wafer from the target. The magnetron preferably is a small, strong one having a stronger outer pole of a first magnetic polarity surrounding a weaker outer pole of a second magnetic polarity and rotates about the central axis of the chamber. The auxiliary magnets preferably have the first magnetic polarity to draw the unbalanced magnetic field component toward the wafer. The auxiliary magnets may be either permanent magnets or electromagnets.
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