Wonik Ips Co., Ltd.

Byung Chul Cho

Kwang Seon Jin

Sang Jun Park

Jin Sung Chun

Jun Hyuck Kwon

In Hwan Yi

Sang Jin Lee

Ju Hwan Park

Dong Ho Ryu

Tian Hao Han

Jong Ki An

A substrate processing method uses a substrate processing apparatus including a process chamber defining a processing space in the process chamber, a substrate support mounted in the process chamber to place a substrate on the substrate support, a gas sprayer for supplying a process gas onto the substrate support in the processing space, and a remote plasma generator connected to the process chamber. The method includes placing the substrate on the substrate support, continuously supplying a surface processing gas through the remote plasma generator onto the substrate, continuously supplying a purge gas onto the substrate, supplying plasma power to the remote plasma generator to activate the surface processing gas and supply the activated surface processing gas onto the substrate, and cutting off the plasma power supplied to the remote plasma generator and supplying an etching gas onto the substrate.

Substrate processing method

A method for atomic layer etching may include a step of providing a substrate on which a material to be etched is formed, a modifying step of controlling the substrate at a first temperature and modifying a surface layer of the material to be removed by supplying a modifying gas to the substrate, and an etching step of controlling the substrate at a second temperature different from the first temperature and removing the modified surface layer by supplying an etching gas to the substrate.

Method and apparatus for atomic layer etching

The present invention relates to an atomic layer etching method for etching a surface of a substrate by using an atomic layer etching apparatus. The present invention provides an atomic layer etching method by using an atomic layer etching apparatus including a process chamber having a sealed process space, a gas injection unit installed at an upper side in the process chamber to inject a gas into the process space, a substrate support installed at a lower side in the process chamber and on which a substrate is seated, and a remote plasma generation device, the atomic layer etching method including: a substrate preparing process (S) of preparing a substrate () on the substrate support; a modification process (S) of modifying a surface layer () of the substrate () by radicalizing a modification gas containing a halogen gas except hydrogen fluoride (HF) through the remote plasma generation device coupled to the process chamber and supplying the radicalized modification gas onto the substrate () after the substrate preparing process (S); a first purge process (S) of purging the surface layer; a surface layer removal process (S) of removing the surface layer () modified in the modification process (S) by supplying a metal-containing precursor to the surface layer (); and a second purge process (S) of purging a surface of the substrate ().

Atomic layer etching method

Disclosed is a technology relating to a method for fabricating a multilayer structure. In the method for fabricating the multilayer structure according to the disclosed embodiment, a first material layer including at least one atomic layer is deposited using a first source gas, which includes a first component, and an oxygen-containing reactive gas which is reactive with the first source gas. On the first material layer, a second material layer including at least one atomic layer is deposited using a second source gas, which includes a second component different from the first component, and an oxygen-containing reactive gas which is reactive with the second source gas. The step of depositing the first material layer and the step of depositing the second material layer constitute one cycle, and the cycle is performed at least once.

Method for preparing composite membrane

In a method of deposition a thin film, a substrate having a pattern may be provided. A surface of the substrate may be treated using a deposition-suppressing gas to form a deposition-suppressing layer on the pattern. A process gas may be applied to the pattern to deposit the thin film. The deposition-suppressing gas may include fluorine.

Method of depositing a thin film

Provided are a substrate treating apparatus and method of manufacturing a phase-change layer having superior deposition characteristics. The substrate treating method of manufacturing a phase-change memory includes forming a bottom electrode on a substrate on which a pattern is formed, performing surface treating for removing impurities generated or remaining on a surface of the substrate while the bottom electrode is formed, performing nitriding on the surface of the substrate from which the impurities are removed, and successively depositing a phase-change layer and a top electrode on the bottom electrode. The substrate treating apparatus for manufacturing a phase-change memory includes a load lock chamber into/from which a plurality of substrates are loaded or unloaded, the load lock chamber being converted between an atmosphere state and a vacuum state, a nitriding chamber in which nitriding is performed on a surface of a substrate on which a bottom electrode is disposed, the nitriding chamber being coupled to one side of a plurality of sides of the vacuum transfer chamber, and a process chamber in which a phase-change layer is deposited on the surface of the substrate on which nitriding is performed in the nitriding process chamber, the process chamber being coupled to one of the plurality of sides of the vacuum transfer chamber.

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Hwaseong-si, South Korea

Byung Chul Cho