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Bernhard Neureither

Oswald Spindler

Helmuth Treichel

Rainer Braun

Thomas Kruck

The method of the present invention provides in a simple manner, the deposition of boron nitride layers with microcrystalline cubic structure which are suitable as insulating layers in VLSI-circuits, as mask membranes in x-ray lithography, as well as coating hard substances. Due to the use of excited starting substances that already contain boron and nitrogen in one molecule and are preferably liquid or solid, and the use of a plasma-CVD-method, the method can be performed using in temperatures of below 500.degree. C. The excitation of the starting substance proceeds preferably in inductive or capacitative fashion in a hollow cathode.

Method for manufacturing microcrystalline cubic boron-nitride-layers

To create silicon boronitride layers that are utilized as intermetallization layers and/or as final passivation layers, the present invention provides a method wherein fluid initial compounds that already molecularly contain a part of the target composition of the silicon boronitride layer to be produced are utilized, and deposited through chemical vapor deposition in an alternating electromagnetic field. The silicon boronitride layers produced in this fashion have a dielectric constant whose value is below 4 .epsilon..sub.o and are distinguished by good insulating and blocking properties and by a high break down strength.

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Bernhard Neureither