Hynix Semiconductor Inc.

Il Wook Kim

Seok Kiu Lee

Jun Hee Cho

Sung Eon Park

Tae Hang Ahn

Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, which prevents a contact resistance due to a native oxide film from being increased. Semiconductor substrate on which a lower structure having a junction region is formed is prepared. Interlayer dielectric film is formed over a whole surface of semiconductor substrate. Contact hole exposing the junction region is formed by etching interlayer dielectric film. Dry-cleaning and wet-cleaning for a substrate surface exposed by the contact hole are sequentially performed. Washed contact surface is preliminarily treated under reducing gas atmosphere to remove a native oxide film formed on contact surface. Impurity is additionally doped to a surface of the junction region in-situ so that impurity damages on preliminary-treated contact surface are compensated for. Conductive film is deposited on the contact hole and the interlayer dielectric film in-situ.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device

Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method comprises the steps of: preparing a silicon substrate having a predetermined lower structure including a gate and a bonding area; forming an interlayer dielectric film on the top side of the substrate; forming a photosensitive film pattern, which exposes an area for providing contact, on the interlayer dielectric film; forming a contact hole exposing a bonding area of the substrate by etching the exposed part of the interlayer dielectric film; removing the photosensitive film pattern; performing a dry cleaning on the exposed bonding area of the substrate so that CF based polymer formed in the etching step is removed; and performing a nitrogen-hydrogen plasma processing on the surface of the exposed bonding area of the substrate so that oxygen polymer and remaining CF-based polymer are removed. Therefore, since hydrogen plasma processing is performed after contact etching, ohmic contact characteristics can be secured. In addition, since the hydrogen plasma processing is performed using a conventional photosensitive film strip apparatus, cost required to install and maintain an additional apparatus is not generated.

Growing community of inventors

Seoul, South Korea

Il Wook Kim