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公开(公告)号:US20240229231A1
公开(公告)日:2024-07-11
申请号:US18585303
申请日:2024-02-23
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Sze Chieh Tan , Vicknesh Sahmuganathan , Eswaranand Venkatasubramanian , Abhijit Basu Mallick , John Sudijono
IPC: C23C16/27 , B82Y40/00 , C23C16/02 , C23C16/455
CPC classification number: C23C16/279 , C23C16/0227 , C23C16/45536 , B82Y40/00
Abstract: Methods of depositing a nanocrystalline diamond film are described. The method may be used in the manufacture of integrated circuits. Methods include treating a substrate with a mild plasma to form a treated substrate surface, incubating the treated substrate with a carbon-rich weak plasma to nucleate diamond particles on the treated substrate surface, followed by treating the substrate with a strong plasma to form a nanocrystalline diamond film.
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公开(公告)号:US11990369B2
公开(公告)日:2024-05-21
申请号:US17407504
申请日:2021-08-20
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan , Zeqing Shen , Susmit Singha Roy , Abhijit Basu Mallick
IPC: H01L21/768 , H01L21/02 , H01L21/311 , B05D1/00
CPC classification number: H01L21/76877 , H01L21/02118 , H01L21/31133 , H01L21/76834 , H01L21/76837 , B05D1/60 , B05D1/62
Abstract: Exemplary methods of semiconductor processing may include forming a layer of carbon-containing material on a substrate disposed within a processing region of a semiconductor processing chamber. The substrate may include an exposed region of a first dielectric material and an exposed region of a metal-containing material. The layer of carbon-containing material may be selectively formed over the exposed region of the metal-containing material. Forming the layer of carbon-containing material may include one or more cycles of providing a first molecular species that selectively couples with the metal-containing material. Forming the layer of carbon-containing material may include providing a second molecular species that selectively couples with the first molecular species. The methods may include selectively depositing a second dielectric material on the exposed region of the first dielectric material.
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公开(公告)号:US20240087882A1
公开(公告)日:2024-03-14
申请号:US17941347
申请日:2022-09-09
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Siyu Zhu , Hang Yu , Deenesh Padhi , Sung-Kwan Kang , Abdul Wahab Mohammed , Abhijit Basu Mallick
CPC classification number: H01L21/0217 , C23C16/342 , C23C16/345 , C23C16/50 , C23C16/56 , H01J37/32724 , H01J37/32844 , H01L21/02274 , H01L21/0228
Abstract: Exemplary semiconductor processing methods may include providing one or more deposition precursors to a processing region of a semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may include contacting a substrate housed in the processing region with the one or more deposition precursors. The methods may include forming a silicon-containing material on the substrate. The methods may include providing a fluorine-containing precursor to the processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may include contacting the silicon-containing material on the substrate with the fluorine-containing precursor to form a fluorine-treated silicon-containing material. The methods may include contacting the fluorine-treated silicon-containing material with plasma effluents of argon or diatomic nitrogen.
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公开(公告)号:US20240055255A1
公开(公告)日:2024-02-15
申请号:US17880797
申请日:2022-08-04
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Zeqing Shen , Xinke Wang , Susmit Singha Roy , Abhijit Basu Mallick , Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan , John Sudijono
IPC: H01L21/033 , H01L21/02
CPC classification number: H01L21/0337 , H01L21/02271 , H01L21/02337 , H01L21/02211
Abstract: Methods of selectively depositing a carbon-containing layer are described. Exemplary processing methods may include treating a substrate comprising a carbon-containing surface and a silicon-containing surface with one or more of ozone or hydrogen peroxide to passivate the silicon-containing surface. In one or more embodiments, a carbon-containing layer is then selectively deposited on the carbon-containing surface and not on the silicon-containing surface by flowing a first precursor over the substrate to form a first portion of an initial carbon-containing film on the carbon-containing surface and not on the silicon-containing surface. The methods may include removing a first precursor effluent from the substrate. A second precursor may then be flowed over the substrate to react with the first portion of the initial carbon-containing layer. The methods may include removing a second precursor effluent from the substrate.
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公开(公告)号:US20230360906A1
公开(公告)日:2023-11-09
申请号:US17737328
申请日:2022-05-05
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Zeqing Shen , Susmit Singha Roy , Abhijit Basu Mallick
IPC: H01L21/02 , H01L21/311
CPC classification number: H01L21/02211 , H01L21/02532 , H01L21/02123 , H01L21/0234 , H01L21/31111 , H01L29/42392
Abstract: Exemplary methods of semiconductor processing may include providing a silicon-containing precursor and a carbon-containing precursor to a processing region of a semiconductor processing chamber. The carbon-containing precursor may be characterized by a carbon-carbon double bond or a carbon-carbon triple bond. A substrate may be disposed within the processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may include providing an oxygen-containing precursor to the processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may include thermally reacting the silicon-containing precursor, the carbon-containing precursor, and the oxygen-containing precursor at a temperature less than or about 700° C. The methods may include forming a silicon-and-carbon-containing layer on the substrate.
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公开(公告)号:US11781218B2
公开(公告)日:2023-10-10
申请号:US17119648
申请日:2020-12-11
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Huiyuan Wang , Susmit Singha Roy , Takehito Koshizawa , Bo Qi , Abhijit Basu Mallick
IPC: C23C16/40 , H01L21/768 , H01L21/311 , C23C16/56 , C23C16/455 , H01L21/762 , H01L21/02
CPC classification number: C23C16/407 , C23C16/45527 , C23C16/56 , H01L21/0228 , H01L21/31111 , H01L21/76224 , H01L21/76837
Abstract: Methods for forming defect-free gap fill materials comprising germanium oxide are disclosed. In some embodiments, the gap fill material is deposited by exposing a substrate surface to a germane precursor and an oxidant simultaneously. The germane precursor may be flowed intermittently. The substrate may also be exposed to a second oxidant to increase the relative concentration of oxygen within the gap fill material.
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公开(公告)号:US11756785B2
公开(公告)日:2023-09-12
申请号:US17407553
申请日:2021-08-20
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan , Zeqing Shen , Susmit Singha Roy , Abhijit Basu Mallick
IPC: H01L21/02 , H01L21/311
CPC classification number: H01L21/02115 , H01L21/31111
Abstract: Exemplary methods of semiconductor processing may include etching one or more features partially through a dielectric material to expose material from one or more layer pairs formed on a substrate. The methods may include halting the etching prior to penetrating fully through the dielectric material, and prior to exposing material from all layer pairs formed on the substrate. The methods may include forming a layer of carbon-containing material on the exposed material from each of the one or more layer pairs having exposed material. The methods may include etching the one or more features fully through the dielectric material to expose material for each remaining layer pair formed on the substrate.
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公开(公告)号:US20230279540A1
公开(公告)日:2023-09-07
申请号:US17633010
申请日:2021-12-15
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc. , National University of Singapore
Inventor: Vicknesh Sahmuganathan , Jiteng Gu , Zhongxin Chen , Kian Ping Loh , John Sudijono , Haisen Xu , Sze Chieh Tan , Yuanxing Han , Jiecong Tang , Eswaranand Venkatasubramanian , Abhijit Basu Mallick
CPC classification number: C23C16/274 , C01B32/26 , C08F2/48 , C23C16/0272 , C23C16/042 , C23C16/511
Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for forming a film on a substrate are described. The film is formed on the substrate by depositing an adamantane monomer and an initiator on the substrate to form a polymerizable seed layer and curing the polymerizable seed layer to form a polyadamantane layer.
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公开(公告)号:US11702751B2
公开(公告)日:2023-07-18
申请号:US16989167
申请日:2020-08-10
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Bo Qi , Huiyuan Wang , Yingli Rao , Abhijit Basu Mallick
CPC classification number: C23C16/56 , C23C16/30 , C23C16/45529 , H10B12/02 , H10B12/30 , H10B41/20 , H10B41/35
Abstract: A non-conformal, highly selective liner for etch methods in semiconductor devices is described. A method comprises forming a film stack on a substrate; etching the film stack to form an opening; depositing a non-conformal liner in the opening; etching the non-conformal liner from the bottom of the opening; and selectively etching the film stack relative to the non-conformal liner to form a logic or memory hole. The non-conformal liner comprises one or more of boron, carbon, or nitrogen.
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公开(公告)号:US11638374B2
公开(公告)日:2023-04-25
申请号:US17720465
申请日:2022-04-14
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Tejinder Singh , Takehito Koshizawa , Abhijit Basu Mallick , Pramit Manna , Nancy Fung , Eswaranand Venkatasubramanian , Ho-yung David Hwang , Samuel E. Gottheim
Abstract: Apparatuses and methods to provide a patterned substrate are described. A plurality of patterned and spaced first lines and carbon material lines and formed on the substrate surface by selectively depositing and etching films extending in a first direction and films extending in a second direction that crosses the first direction to pattern the underlying structures.
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