Applied Materials, Inc.

Shankar W Chandran

Ellie Y Yieh

Li-Qun Xia

Francimar Campana

Kevin Mukai

Srinivas D Nemani

Shankar Venkataraman

Himanshu Pokharna

Chen-An Chen

Scott A Hendrickson

Maria Galiano

Gwendolyn D Jones

Makoto Okubo

Hirotaka Tanabe

Hiroyuki Ueda

A method and apparatus for controlling dopant concentration during borophosphosilicate glass film deposition on a semiconductor wafer to reduce consumption of nitride on the semiconductor wafer. In one embodiment of the invention, the method starts by placing a substrate having a nitride layer in a reaction chamber and providing a silicon source, an oxygen source and a boron source into the reaction chamber while delaying providing a phosphorous source into the reaction chamber to form a borosilicate glass layer over the nitride layer. The method continues by providing the silicon, oxygen, boron and phosphorous sources into the reaction chamber to form a borophosphosilicate film over the borosilicate glass layer.

Method and apparatus for controlling dopant concentration during BPSG film deposition to reduce nitride consumption

A method of removing residue from a substrate processing chamber. In one embodiment the method comprises flowing an inert gas into a remote plasma chamber and forming a plasma within the chamber; maintaining the plasma while creating a plurality of reactive fluorine species by flowing a fluorine-containing gas into the remote plasma chamber and increasing a flow rate of a fluorine-containing gas from a first flow rate to a second flow rate higher than the first flow rate; and introducing the plurality of reactive fluorine species into the substrate processing chamber.

Accelerated plasma clean

A method for processing semiconductor substrates by reacting hydroxyl radicals with a precursor to cause the precursor to decompose and form a film which deposits on a substrate. Hydroxyl radicals, which are produced in a hydroxyl-ion producing apparatus outside of a chemical vapor deposition reactor, are mixed with a precursor to form a hydroxyl ions-precursor mixture. The hydroxyl ions-precursor mixture is introduced into the chemical vapor deposition reactor.

Method and apparatus for processing semiconductor substrates with hydroxyl radicals

A method including over a substrate, forming an aggregate comprising a barrier layer between a first dielectric layer comprising nitrogen and a second dielectric layer comprising phosphorous, and after forming the aggregate, thermally treating the substrate. An apparatus including a substrate and an aggregate formed over the substrate including a barrier layer between a first dielectric layer comprising nitrogen and a second dielectric layer comprising phosphorous.

Aggregate dielectric layer to reduce nitride consumption

A method for forming a BPSG film from a two-step deposition process and related apparatus and devices. A conformal layer of BPSG is deposited on a substrate. A more stable layer of BPSG is deposited at a higher deposition rate over the conformal layer. The method is suitable for filling trenches at least as narrow as 0.06 microns with aspect ratios of at least 5.5:1.

Two-step borophosphosilicate glass deposition process and related devices and apparatus

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for detecting the end point of a process by monitoring the position of a valve during the process. In one aspect, a cleaning process is performed in the chamber, and a controller monitors the valve position to determine the end point of the process which corresponds to a decrease in the number of steps in the valve position required to achieve a stable throttle valve position after the cleaning process is complete.

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Milpitas, CA, United States of America

Shankar W Chandran