摘要:
A method of forming an insulating film on a surface of a substrate includes the steps of heating the substrate in a processing chamber in an atmosphere containing water vapor maintained at 900° C. or higher to form a first insulating film on a surface of the substrate; and cooling down the substrate in the presence of water vapor to a temperature of 600° C. or less at a temperature decreasing rate of 15° C./sec or more so as to limit a thickness of a second insulating film formed at an interface between the first insulating film and the substrate.
摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently perform a thick gate oxidation, when plural gate oxide films having different thicknesses are formed by a one-time thermal oxidation treatment. SOLUTION: After forming a field insulating film 12 on one main front surface of a semiconductor substrate 10, sacrificial oxide films or the gate oxide films are formed as oxide films 14a, 14b. A resist layer 16 is used as a mask in an element hole 12a, and argon (or fluorine) ions are implanted via the oxide film 14a by means of an implantation treatment of one time or multiple times, to form an ion implantation layer 18. When the oxide films 14a, 14b are used as the sacrificial oxide films, the gate oxide films are formed in element holes 12a, 12b after removing the resist layer 16 and the oxide films 14a, 14b. When the oxide films 14a, 14b are used as the gate oxide films, the oxide films 14a, 14b are thinned, by etching after removing the resist layer 16, and thereafter, the oxide films 14a, 14b are thickened. The gate oxide film, corresponding to 14a, becomes thicker than that corresponding to 14b by forming the ion implantation layer 18. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a processing method and a processor for forming a reliable insulating film without much damage in the film with a high throughput. SOLUTION: The processing method for forming an oxide film by oxidizing an object to be treated exposed on the surface of a substrate 102 by plasma P comprises a first process for forming an oxide film having a film thickness in a desired range by oxidizing the object to be treated by oxidation species containing ions in the plasma P; and a second process for performing treatment by neutral radical specifies by controlling the amount of arrival to the object to be treated in ions in plasma. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an oxidizing method of a workpiece which can selectively oxidize a surface of different material sufficiently exposing on a surface, and moreover can keep uniformity in the film thickness high among the films. SOLUTION: In the oxidizing method of selectively oxidizing the surface of the workpiece in an atmosphere, having oxygen active species and hydroxyl group active species which are generated by supplying an oxidizing gas and a reducing gas in a treatment vessel 22, and by reacting both the gases in such a manner that a plurality of workpiece W, in which silicon layer and silicon nitride layer are exposed on the surface, are accommodated in the treatment vessel 22, which has a designated length and can execute vacuum processing. The oxidizing gas and reducing gas are supplied from one end side of the treatment vessel in the longitudinal direction, and the oxidizing gas is further supplied in auxiliary, at a partway location of the treatment vessel in the longitudinal direction. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an oxide film formation method for a semiconductor element capable of reducing the density of interface trap charge and oxide trap charge. SOLUTION: An oxide film formation method for the semiconductor element comprises: a stage for providing a silicon substrate wherein a natural oxide film is removed; a stage for performing an oxidizing process to form an oxide film on the silicon substrate; and a stage for performing a high-temperature heat treatment process under a mixed gas atmosphere of inert gas and oxygen gas in order to reduce trap charge existing in the oxide film. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a treatment method and apparatus for forming a highly reliable insulating film by a method not dependent on high temperature heating. SOLUTION: This treatment method forms an insulating film on the surface of a substrate to be treated according to oxidizing and nitriding treatment and comprises steps of nitriding the surface of the substrate to be treated by irradiating the substrate to be treated with plasma containing nitrogen atoms, and oxidizing the nitrided surface of the substrate to be treated by irradiating the nitrided surface with plasma containing oxygen atoms. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of forming a tunnel oxide film in a semiconductor device in which a predetermined thickness of the oxide film is not removed during a process of removing the oxide film in a memory cell area and a low voltage transistor area after a gate oxide film for a high voltage transistor is formed, thereby preventing increase of surface toughness on a substrate and contamination caused by absorbed carbon components generated when the oxide films and the photo resist film are removed. SOLUTION: The method of forming a tunnel oxide film in a semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a first oxide film 12 on a semiconductor substrate 11, and then forming a photo resist pattern 13 exposing the first oxide film 12 in the memory cell area and the low voltage transistor area; removing a predetermined thickness of the exposed first oxide film 12 and the photo resist pattern 13 sequentially; and removing the remaining first oxide film 12 completely and then forming a second oxide film 14 on a whole surface. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrain a formed oxide film from deteriorating in characteristics in a plasma oxidation treatment method for subjecting a substrate to a plasma oxidation treatment. SOLUTION: In the plasma oxidation treatment method for subjecting a substrate to a plasma oxidation treatment, inert gas used for generating plasma is so selected as to enable the wavelength of plasma emission light to be in a prescribed range. The wavelength of plasma emission light is set, for instance, in the range of 500 to 600 Å. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an oxidation method of silicon using oxygen ( 1 D). SOLUTION: A low temperature oxidation method of a silicon substrate includes a process to arrange a silicon wafer in a vacuum chamber, a process to keep the silicon wafer at a temperature between about 25°C to about 600°C, a process to lead N 2 O gas into the vacuum chamber, a process to dissociate the N 2 O gas to the oxygen ( 1 D) using a xenon laser which emits light at a wavelength of about 172 nm and to flow the oxygen ( 1 D) to the silicon wafer, and a process to form an oxide layer on at least a part of the silicon wafer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a manufacturing method of a MOS type transistor capable of realizing a high-speed device, by reducing the diffusion of nitrogen into an interface of a silicon substrate due to the redistribution of the nitrogen, and furthermore, by suppressing the diffusion into an interface of a polysilicon hindering the speed-up of a transistor. SOLUTION: A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device comprise a step for forming an oxide film 2 on a semiconductor substrate 1, a step for introducing nitrogen in the oxide film, and an oxidation heat treatment process d for heating the oxide film in an oxygen-containing gas atmosphere. A heat treatment temperature of the process d is higher than that of all processes after the process d. After a nitriding process c for introducing the oxide film 2, the heat treatment is performed at a higher temperature than that of all heat treatments f performed thereafter and in an oxidizing atmosphere selecting an atmosphere for suppressing film thickness or sublimation. Consequently, an interstitial or excess nitrogen is redistributed/desorbed. Thus, nitriding of a silicon substrate or nitriding of a polysilicon electrode can be suppressed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI