摘要:
When an object of treatment is subjected to, for example, a gas treatment in an airtight chamber, reaction products adhere to the inner wall surface of the chamber, an object holder therein, and the corner portions of the chamber. When a cleaning medium is injected into the chamber, according to the present invention, the reaction products are dissolved in the cleaning medium by hydrolysis. Thereafter, the cleaning medium is discharged from the chamber. Then, the chamber is heated and evacuated, so that water vapor is discharged to provide a predetermined degree of vacuum, whereupon the treatment can be started anew. Therefore, a wiping operation can be omitted. Moreover, the reaction products remaining at the corner portions of the chamber can be removed without forming a source of polluted particles, so that the necessity of overhauling can be obviated. Thus, fully automatic cleaning, so to speak, can be effected, and the chamber need not be open to the atmosphere, so that the throughput can be improved.
摘要:
A method of selectively forming (growing or depositing) a silicon-containing metal layer on an exposed surface of a semiconductor substrate or a conductor by using a metal halide gas and a silicon hydride gas at a ratio of a flow rate of the latter gas to that of the former gas (e.g., Si.sub.n H.sub.2n+2 /WF.sub.6) of 2 or less, and setting a growth temperature at 200.degree. C. or less. When a Si.sub.3 H.sub.8 gas and a WF.sub.6 gas, in particular, are used at a ratio of the flow rates (Si.sub.3 H.sub.8 /WF.sub.6) of 1.0 or less, and the deposition temperature is set at 100.degree. C. to room temperature, a silicon-containing tungsten layer is selectively deposited (formed).
摘要:
A semiconductor device manufacturing method of stacking semiconductor chips in layers over a semiconductor substrate having, close to its main surface, semiconductor chips, connecting semiconductor chips in different layers to enable signal transmission, and singularizing the layered semiconductor chips into pieces. The method includes steps of forming an insulating layer on the main surface of the semiconductor substrate; stacking the semiconductor chips over the semiconductor chips of the semiconductor substrate in such a manner as to interpose the insulating layer between them and an opposite surface of each disposed semiconductor chip opposes the insulating layer, the opposite surface being opposite to the main surface; forming, in each of the disposed semiconductor chips, a via hole penetrating from the main to the opposite surface; and forming a connection which enables signal transmission between the disposed semiconductor chips and the corresponding semiconductor chips of the semiconductor substrate via the via holes.
摘要:
A method of forming a dielectric film on a substrate surface includes the steps of forming the dielectric film on the substrate surface in plural steps, and reforming, in each of the plural steps of forming the dielectric film, the dielectric film in an ambient primarily of nitrogen.
摘要:
A semiconductor device production method that is used to uniformly and efficiently reduce metal oxides produced on metal (copper, for example) which forms electrodes or wirings on a semiconductor device. An object to be treated on which copper oxides are produced is put into a process chamber and is heated by a heater to a predetermined temperature. Then carboxylic acid stored in a storage tank is vaporized by a carburetor. The vaporized carboxylic acid, together with carrier gas, is introduced into the process chamber via a treating gas feed pipe to reduce the copper oxides produced on the object to be treated to metal copper. As a result, metal oxides can be reduced uniformly without making the surfaces of electrodes or wirings irregular. Moreover, in this case, carbon dioxide and water are both produced in a gaseous state. This prevents impurities from remaining on the surface of copper.
摘要:
A semiconductor device production method that is used to uniformly and efficiently reduce metal oxides produced on metal (copper, for example) which forms electrodes or wirings on a semiconductor device. An object to be treated on which copper oxides are produced is put into a process chamber and is heated by a heater to a predetermined temperature. Then carboxylic acid stored in a storage tank is vaporized by a carburetor. The vaporized carboxylic acid, together with carrier gas, is introduced into the process chamber via a treating gas feed pipe to reduce the copper oxides produced on the object to be treated to metal copper. As a result, metal oxides can be reduced uniformly without making the surfaces of electrodes or wirings irregular. Moreover, in this case, carbon dioxide and water are both produced in a gaseous state. This prevents impurities from remaining on the surface of copper.
摘要:
A refractory metal nitride is deposited at a temperature of 600.degree. C. according to a chemical vapor phase deposition method by using a source gas containing a refractory metallic element and a reduction gas containing one of an alkyl amino compound, alkyl azide compound, hydrazine and a hydrazine alkyl compound for reducing the source gas. This refractory metal nitride is used as a barrier metal material for interconnection in a semiconductor device. When forming a refractory metal nitride as a barrier metal on a silicon layer or forming a contact metal between the barrier metal and the silicon layer, a natural oxide film on the surface of the silicon layer set in a pressure-reduced atmosphere is removed by reducing with hydrazine or a hydrazine alkyl compound.
摘要:
A chemical vapor deposition (CVD) system for depositing a material selectively on a part of a substrate comprises a reaction chamber in which a CVD process is performed, a substrate holder and substrate heater provided within the reaction chamber, a gas inlet fixture provided on the reaction chamber for introducing one or more CVD source gases into the reaction chamber, and a reactant distribution fixture provided on the gas inlet fixture within the reaction chamber for controlling distribution of the reactant species in the reaction chamber, wherein the reactant distribution fixture defines a subspace surrounding the substrate within the space of the reaction chamber such that the subspace has a dimension, measured in a direction generally perpendicular to the surface of the substrate such that the dimension is at least less than one half of the mean free path of the reactant species realized inside the space of the reaction chamber during the CVD process and such that an opening is formed for communicating the subspace inside the reaction distribution means with the rest of the space of the reaction chamber for freely passing product species formed as a result of the chemical reaction at the surface of the substrate.
摘要:
A method of forming metal contact wiring layers in semiconductor devices by cleaning the surface of an exposed substrate of a contact hole formed to the SiO.sub.2 film on a semiconductor substrate with the reducing effect of N.sub.2 H.sub.4 gas, thereafter forming a TiN barrier layer by the CVD method using the mixed gas of N.sub.2 H.sub.4 and TiCl.sub.4 while the surface is not exposed to the air, then forming a tungsten contact layer thereon by the CVD method using the mixed gas of N.sub.2 H.sub.4 and WF.sub.6, or forming the TiN layer by the CVD method on the tungsten contact layer formed by the CVD method on the substrate.
摘要:
In the course of a production of a semiconductor device with a multilayer insulating layer, when a contact hole is opened in the multilayer insulating layer, an insulating layer activating a metal selective vapor-growth appears at the side wall of the contact hole. A thin metal (e.g., tungsten) layer is selectively deposited in the contact hole. In another case, another metal layer appears within the contact hole. An insulating film preventing a metal selective vapor-growth is deposited over the whole surface of the side wall of the contact hole, the metal layer and a top surface of the multilayer insulating layer, and is anisotropically etched to leave a portion of the film lying on the side wall only as a side wall insulating film. The contact hole is completely filled with another metal (tungsten) by a selective vapor-growth method, to flatten an exposed surface, and then a conductor (e.g., aluminum) line layer is formed on the metal layer in the contact hole and the multilayer insulating layer, to thereby complete the wiring structure of the semiconductor device.