Asm IP Holding B.v.

Giuseppe Alessio Verni

Qi Xie

Charles Dezelah

Eric James Shero

Ren-Jie Chang

Andrea Illiberi

Shaoren Deng

Petro Deminskyi

Marko J Tuominen

Eva E Tois

Shankar Swaminathan

Michael Givens

Bhushan Zope

Timothee Blanquart

Eric Christopher Stevens

Daniele Chiappe

Jiyeon Kim

Viljami J Pore

Jan Willem Maes

Paul F Ma

Michael Eugene Givens

Dieter Pierreux

Petri Raisanen

Bert Jongbloed

René Henricus Jozef Vervuurt

Henri Jussila

Shinya Iwashita

Maart Van Druenen

Lifu Chen

Chiyu Zhu

Varun Sharma

Hannu Huotari

Werner Knaepen

Elina Färm

Petri Räisänen

Rami Khazaka

Lucas Petersen Barbosa Lima

Gido Van Der Star

Viraj Madhiwala

Panagiota Arnou

Pia Homm Jara

Anirudhan Chandrasekaran

Disclosed are methods and systems for depositing layers comprising a metal and nitrogen. The layers are formed onto a surface of a substrate. The deposition process may be a cyclical deposition process. Exemplary structures in which the layers may be incorporated include field effect transistors, VNAND cells, metal-insulator-metal (MIM) structures, and DRAM capacitors.

Methods and systems for forming a layer comprising vanadium and nitrogen

A multiple-layer method for forming material within a gap on a surface of a substrate is disclosed. An exemplary method includes forming a layer of first material overlying the substrate and forming a layer of second (e.g., initially flowable) material within a region of the first material to thereby at least partially fill the gap with material in a seamless and/or void less manner.

Multiple-layer method and system for forming material within a gap

Disclosed are methods and systems for depositing layers comprising vanadium and oxygen. The layers are formed onto a surface of a substrate. The deposition process may be a cyclical deposition process. Exemplary structures in which the layers may be incorporated include field effect transistors, VNAND cells, metal-insulator-metal (MIM) structures, and DRAM capacitors.

Methods and systems for forming a layer comprising vanadium and oxygen

Disclosed are methods and systems for filling a gap. An exemplary method comprises providing a substrate to a reaction chamber. The substrate comprises the gap. The method further comprises at least partially filling the gap with a gap filling fluid. The methods and systems are useful, for example, in the field of integrated circuit manufacture.

Methods and systems for filling a gap

Disclosed are methods and systems for depositing layers comprising a titanium, aluminum, and carbon. The layers are formed onto a surface of a substrate. The deposition process comprises a cyclical deposition process. Exemplary structures in which the layers may be incorporated include field effect transistors, VNAND cells, metal-insulator-metal (MIM) structures, and DRAM capacitors.

Methods and systems for forming a layer comprising aluminum, titanium, and carbon

Methods and systems for depositing a layer, comprising one or more of vanadium boride and vanadium phosphide, onto a surface of a substrate and structures and devices formed using the methods are disclosed. An exemplary method includes using a deposition process. The deposition process can include providing a vanadium precursor to the reaction chamber and separately providing a reactant to the reaction chamber. Exemplary structures can include field effect transistor structures, such as gate all around structures. The layer comprising one or more of vanadium boride and vanadium phosphide can be used, for example, as barrier layers or liners, as work function layers, as dipole shifter layers, or the like.

Methods of forming structures including vanadium boride and vanadium phosphide layers

Methods and systems for depositing vanadium nitride layers onto a surface of the substrate and structures and devices formed using the methods are disclosed. An exemplary method includes using a cyclical deposition process, depositing a vanadium nitride layer onto a surface of the substrate. The cyclical deposition process can include providing a vanadium halide precursor to the reaction chamber and separately providing a nitrogen reactant to the reaction chamber. The cyclical deposition process may desirably be a thermal cyclical deposition process.

Method of forming vanadium nitride layer and structure including the vanadium nitride layer

Methods for cleaning a substrate are disclosed. The substrate comprises a dielectric surface and a metal surface. The methods comprise providing a cleaning agent to the reaction chamber.

Method of cleaning a surface

Methods for depositing a molybdenum nitride film on a surface of a substrate are disclosed. The methods may include: providing a substrate into a reaction chamber; and depositing a molybdenum nitride film directly on the surface of the substrate by performing one or more unit deposition cycles of cyclical deposition process, wherein a unit deposition cycle may include, contacting the substrate with a first vapor phase reactant comprising a molybdenum halide precursor, and contacting the substrate with a second vapor phase reactant comprising a nitrogen precursor. Semiconductor device structures including a molybdenum nitride film are also disclosed.

Methods for depositing a molybdenum nitride film on a surface of a substrate by a cyclical deposition process and related semiconductor device structures including a molybdenum nitride film

Methods and systems for depositing rare earth metal carbide containing layers on a surface of a substrate and structures and devices formed using the methods are disclosed. An exemplary method includes using a cyclical deposition process such as an atomic layer deposition process for depositing a rare earth metal carbide containing layer onto a surface of the substrate.

Method of forming structures for threshold voltage control

Methods and systems for depositing chromium nitride layers onto a surface of the substrate and structures and devices formed using the methods are disclosed. An exemplary method includes using a deposition process, depositing a chromium nitride layer onto a surface of the substrate. The deposition process can include providing a chromium precursor to the reaction chamber and separately providing a nitrogen reactant to the reaction chamber. The deposition process may be a thermal cyclical deposition process.

Method of forming chromium nitride layer and structure including the chromium nitride layer

Devices and methods for selectively etching a metal nitride layer are disclosed. The methods comprise an oxidation step and an etching step which are optionally separated by a purge, and which can be repeated in a cyclical etching process.

Apparatus and method for etching metal nitrides

Methods for selective deposition of metal oxide films on metal or metallic surfaces relative to oxide surfaces are provided. An oxide surface of a substrate may be selectively passivated relative to the metal or metallic surface, such as by exposing the substrate to a silylating agent. A metal oxide is selectively deposited from vapor phase reactants on the metal or metallic surface relative to the passivated oxide surface.

Selective deposition of metal oxides on metal surfaces

Methods of forming a vanadium nitride-containing layer comprise providing a substrate within a reaction chamber of a reactor and depositing a vanadium nitride-containing layer onto a surface of the substrate, wherein the deposition process comprises providing a vanadium precursor to the reaction chamber and providing a nitrogen precursor to the reaction chamber.

Method of forming vanadium nitride-containing layer

Methods for selective deposition of silicon oxide films on dielectric surfaces relative to metal surfaces are provided. A metal surface of a substrate may be selectively passivated relative to the dielectric surface, such as with a polyimide layer or thiol SAM. Silicon oxide is selectively deposited on the dielectric surface relative to the passivated metal surface by contacting the dielectric surface with a metal catalyst and a silicon precursor comprising a silanol.

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Giuseppe Alessio Verni