Eugenus, Inc.

Jerry Mack

Niloy Mukherjee

Somilkumar J Rathi

Jae Seok Heo

Sung-Hoon Jung

Bunsen B Nie

Hae Young Kim

Nariman Naghibolashrafi

Yoshikazu Okuyama

Srishti Chugh

Sang Young Lee

The disclosed technology generally relates to a barrier layer comprising titanium silicon nitride, and more particularly to a barrier layer for nonvolatile memory devices, and methods of forming the same. In one aspect, a method of forming an electrode for a phase change memory device comprises forming over a semiconductor substrate an electrode comprising titanium silicon nitride (TiSiN) on a phase change storage element configured to store a memory state. Forming the electrode comprises exposing a semiconductor substrate to one or more cyclical vapor deposition cycles, wherein a plurality of the cyclical vapor deposition cycles comprises an exposure to a Ti precursor, an exposure to a N precursor and an exposure to a Si precursor.

Titanium silicon nitride barrier layer

The disclosed technology generally relates to forming a titanium nitride-based thin films, and more particularly to a conformal and smooth titanium nitride-based thin films and methods of forming the same. In one aspect, a method of forming a thin film comprising one or both of TiSiN or TiAlN comprises exposing a semiconductor substrate to one or more vapor deposition cycles at a pressure in a reaction chamber greater than 1 torr, wherein a plurality of the vapor deposition cycles comprises an exposure to a titanium (Ti) precursor, an exposure to a nitrogen (N) precursor and an exposure to one or both of a silicon (Si) precursor or an aluminum (Al) precursor.

Conformal titanium nitride-based thin films and methods of forming same

The disclosed technology generally relates to semiconductor devices, and more particularly to an encapsulation layer for a semiconductor device having a chalcogenide material, and methods of forming the same. In one aspect, a method of fabricating a semiconductor device comprises providing a substrate having an exposed surface comprising a chalcogenide material. The method additionally comprises forming a low-electronegativity (low-χ) metal oxide layer on the chalcogenide material by cyclically exposing the substrate to a low-χ metal precursor and an oxygen precursor comprising O, wherein the low-χ metal of the metal precursor has an electronegativity of 1.6 or lower.

Encapsulation layer for chalcogenide material

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Jerry Mack