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Kokusai Electric Co., Ltd.

Hideharu Itatani

Sadayoshi Horii

Atsushi Sano

Arito Ogawa

Naofumi Ohashi

Kazuhiro Harada

Toshiyuki Kikuchi

Masayuki Tsuneda

Yuji Takebayashi

Hirohisa Yamazaki

Masayuki Asai

Hidehiro Yanai

Katsuhiko Yamamoto

Mitsuro Tanabe

Masanori Sakai

Shigeru Fujita

Satoshi Takano

Hiroshi Ashihara

Eisuke Nishitani

Tsukasa Kamakura

Shun Matsui

Yukinao Kaga

Taketoshi Sato

Tatsushi Ueda

Kazuhiro Morimitsu

Yuichi Wada

Tetsuaki Inada

Motonari Takebayashi

Tsukasa Ohoka

Mitsuhiro Hirano

Mitsunori Ishisaka

Naoko Matsuyama

Junichi Tanabe

Yuki Taira

Osamu Tonomura

Makoto Furuno

Michihide Nakamure

Nobuyuki Mise

There is provided a technique that includes adjusting a pressure of each of a plurality of process chambers, by adjusting an opening degree of a pressure-adjusting valve included in a common gas exhaust pipe, which is connected to a plurality of process chamber exhaust pipes and is disposed to merge respective process chamber exhaust pipes on a downstream side of the plurality of process chamber exhaust pipes, to a predetermined opening degree and by exhausting an atmosphere of each of the process chambers from the plurality of process chamber exhaust pipes and the common gas exhaust pipe while supplying an inert gas to the plurality of process chambers; processing a substrate in each of the process chambers; and detecting a fluctuation of pressures in the process chamber exhaust pipes by measuring, by one or more pressure detectors, the pressures of the process chamber exhaust pipes.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device

There is provided a technique that includes supplying a first process gas to a process space where a substrate is accommodated, and using an inert gas as a carrier gas of the first process gas; and supplying plasma of a second process gas to the process space where the substrate is accommodated, and using an active auxiliary gas as a carrier gas of the second process gas.

A substrate processing apparatus, including: a processing chamber having a first and a second processing regions; a substrate mounting table rotatably installed in the processing chamber on which a substrate is mounted, and a rotation instrument configured to rotate the substrate mounting table such that the substrate passes through the first processing region and the second processing region in this order, at least one of the first and the second processing regions including: a gas supply part including a line-shaped opening portion extending in a radial direction of the substrate mounting table and configured to supply a gas from the opening portion into the region; and a gap holding member protruding from a ceiling of the processing chamber opposing the substrate, around the opening portion, toward the substrate such that a space on the substrate has a predetermined gap to serve as a passage of the supplied gas.

Substrate processing apparatus, method of manufacturing semiconductor device, and method of processing substrate

Provided is a technique of adjusting a work function. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: (a) forming a titanium nitride layer on a substrate by supplying a first source containing titanium and a second source containing nitrogen to the substrate; (b) forming a titanium aluminum carbonitride layer on the substrate by supplying the first source, the second source and a third source containing aluminum and carbon to the substrate; (c) forming a laminated film on the substrate by performing (a) and (b); and (d) adjusting ratios of titanium, nitrogen, aluminum and carbon in the laminated film based on how many times (a) and (b) are performed.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device and substrate processing apparatus

A method of manufacturing a high quality a semiconductor device, includes loading a substrate comprising a conductive film and an insulating film into a process chamber. The insulating film is formed around the conductive film to expose the conductive film. A process gas, which comprises a component that reacts with a desorbed gas generated from the insulating film is supplied into the process chamber which causes a protective film to be selectively formed on the insulating film.

A semiconductor device manufacturing method, including: mounting substrates on a mounting table within a processing chamber along a rotation direction of the table; starting to supply a first-element-containing gas to a first region in the chamber along the rotation direction, while rotating the table and exhausting the processing chamber; starting to supply a second-element-containing gas to a second region in the chamber; starting to generate, by a plasma generating unit in the second region, plasma of the second-element-containing gas in the second region to have a first activity; and forming a thin film containing first and second elements on the substrates by rotating the table to cause the substrates to sequentially pass through the first and second regions in turn so that a first-element-containing layer is formed in the first region and is modified in the second region by generating plasma having a second activity higher than the first activity.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device, substrate processing apparatus, and recording medium

Provided is a semiconductor device including a metal film which can be formed with lower costs but still manage to have a necessary work function and oxidation resistance. The semiconductor device includes an insulating film disposed on a substrate; and a metal film disposed on the insulating film. The metal film includes a stacked structure of: a first metal film disposed on the insulating film to directly contact the insulating film; a second metal film disposed on the first metal film to directly contact the first metal film; and the first metal film disposed on the second metal film to directly contact the second metal film, the second metal film having a work function greater than 4.8 eV and being different from the first metal film in material, wherein an oxidation resistance of the first metal film is greater than that of the second metal film.

Semiconductor device having electrode made of high work function material, method and apparatus for manufacturing the same

Provided is a substrate processing apparatus, including: a processing space configured to process a substrate: an exhaust buffer chamber which is provided so as to surround a lateral circumference of the processing space and into which a gas supplied into the processing space is flowed; and a conductance adjustment plate disposed to face a gas flow path between the processing space and the exhaust buffer chamber, wherein the conductance adjustment plate has R-shaped portion or a tapered inclined portion on an inner peripheral side edge facing the gas flow path from the processing space to the exhaust buffer chamber.

Substrate processing apparatus, method for manufacturing semiconductor device and computer-readable recording medium

Provided is a semiconductor device including a metal film which can be formed with lower costs but still mange to have a necessary work function and oxidation resistance. The semiconductor device includes: an insulating film disposed on a substrate; and a metal film disposed on the insulating film to directly contact the insulating film, the metal film including a laminated structure where a first metal film and a second metal film are alternately and repeatedly laminated, wherein the second metal film has a work function different from that of the first metal film and is different from the first metal film in material, and an oxidation resistance of the first metal film is greater than that of the second metal film.

Semiconductor device having electrode made of high work function material and method of manufacturing the same

Provided is a semiconductor device including a metal film which can be formed with lower costs but still mange to have a necessary work function and oxidation resistance. The semiconductor device includes an insulating film disposed on a substrate; and a metal film disposed on the insulating film. The metal film includes a stacked structure of: a first metal film disposed on the insulating film to directly contact the insulating film; a second metal film disposed on the first metal film to directly contact the first metal film; and the first metal film disposed on the second metal film to directly contact the second metal film, the second metal film having a work function greater than 4.8 eV and being different from the first metal film in material, wherein an oxidation resistance of the first metal film is greater than that of the second metal film.

Provided is a method of forming a tantalum oxide-based film having good step coverage while controlling an oxygen concentration in the film. The method includes forming a tantalum nitride layer on a substrate by supplying a source gas including a tantalum and a nitriding agent into a process chamber wherein the substrate is accommodated under a condition where a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) reaction is caused; oxidizing the tantalum nitride layer by supplying an oxidizing agent into the process chamber under a condition where an oxidation reaction of the tantalum nitride layer by the oxidizing agent is unsaturated; and forming on the substrate a conductive tantalum oxynitride film wherein an oxygen is stoichiometrically insufficient with respect to the tantalum and a nitrogen by alternately repeating forming the tantalum nitride layer on the substrate and oxidizing the tantalum nitride layer a plurality of times.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device and method of processing substrate

A high-k capacitor insulating film stable at a higher temperature is formed. There is provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method comprises: forming a first amorphous insulating film comprising a first element on a substrate; adding a second element different from the first element to the first amorphous insulating film so as to form a second amorphous insulating film on the substrate; and annealing the second amorphous insulating film at a predetermined annealing temperature so as to form a third insulating film by changing a phase of the second amorphous insulating film. The concentration of the second element added to the first amorphous insulating film is controlled according to the annealing temperature.

Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device capable of minimally preventing the property deterioration caused by the oxidation of a metal film, and a substrate processing apparatus are provided. The method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: (a) loading a substrate into a processing container; (b) forming a metal film on the substrate using a chemical deposition method by supplying a processing gas into the processing container and exhausting the processing gas; (c) forming an aluminum nitride film on the metal film using the chemical deposition method by supplying an aluminum-containing source gas and a nitrogen-containing gas into the processing container and exhausting the aluminum-containing source gas and the nitrogen-containing gas; and (d) unloading the substrate from the processing container after forming the metal film and the aluminum nitride film, wherein the step (b) and the step (c) are continuously performed while maintaining an inside of the processing container to have an oxygen-free atmosphere.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device, method of processing substrate and substrate processing apparatus

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Hideharu Itatani