Kokusai Electric Corporation

Hitachi-kokusai Electric Inc.

Takashi Nakagawa

Kimihiko Nakatani

Motomu Degai

Takayuki Waseda

Yoshitomo Hashimoto

Yoshiro Hirose

Naofumi Ohashi

Satoshi Shimamoto

Tadashi Takasaki

Shoma Miyata

Ryota Ueno

Takao Izaki

Satoshi Okada

Kiyohiko Maeda

Yuji Takebayashi

Atsushi Moriya

Masanori Nakayama

Toshiyuki Kikuchi

Masato Terasaki

Akito Hirano

Yasuhiro Megawa

Takahiro Miyakura

There is provide a technique that includes: etching a base on a surface of a substrate by performing a cycle, the cycle including: (a) forming a layer on a surface of the base by exposing the base to a modifying agent; and (b) causing a reaction between a halogen-containing radical and the base by exposing the layer to a halogen-containing gas such that the layer reacts with the halogen-containing gas to generate the halogen-containing radical.

Processing method, method of manufacturing semiconductor device, processing apparatus, and recording medium

There is provided a technique that includes: etching a first film exposed on a surface of a substrate by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times, the cycle including non-simultaneously performing: (a) forming a first modified layer in at least a portion of a surface of the first film by supplying a first gas to the substrate; and (b) etching at least a portion of the first film with an etching species, the etching species being generated by supplying a second gas having a molecular structure different from that of the first gas to the substrate to perform at least one selected from the group of causing the second gas to react with the first modified layer and activating the first modified layer with the second gas.

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

A substrate processing technique including: (a) modifying a first base surface of a substrate by supplying a first modifier and a second modifier to the substrate having a surface on which the first base and a second base are exposed, wherein the first modifier contains one or more atoms to which at least one first functional group and at least one second functional group are directly bonded, wherein the second modifier contains an atom to which at least one first functional group and at least one second functional group are directly bonded, and wherein the number of the at least one first functional group contained in one molecule of the second modifier is smaller than the number of the at least one first functional group contained in one molecule of the first modifier; and (b) forming a film on a second base surface by supplying film-forming gas to the substrate.

A technique includes: (a) providing a substrate having a first surface and a second surface; (b) modifying the first surface to be terminated with a hydrocarbon group by supplying a hydrocarbon group-containing gas to the substrate; and (c) forming a film on the second surface by supplying a precursor and an oxygen- and hydrogen-containing gas to the substrate after modifying the first surface.

Method of processing substrate and method of manufacturing semiconductor device by forming film

There is method of processing a substrate comprising: (a) providing the substrate with a first base containing no oxygen, a second base containing oxygen, and a third base containing no oxygen and no nitrogen on its surface, wherein a protective film is formed on a surface of the third base; (b) modifying a surface of the second base to be fluorine-terminated by supplying a fluorine-containing gas to the substrate in a state where the protective film is formed on the surface of the third base; and (c) forming a film on a surface of the first base by supplying a film-forming gas to the substrate in a state where the surface of the second base is modified.

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

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

There is provide a technique that includes: etching a base on a surface of a substrate by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times, the cycle including: (a) forming a layer on a surface of the base by supplying a modifying agent to the base; and (b) causing a reaction between a halogen-containing radical and the base by supplying a halogen-containing gas to the layer such that the layer reacts with the halogen-containing gas to generate the halogen-containing radical.

A technique includes: (a) modifying a surface of a first base exposed on a surface of a substrate to be terminated with a hydrocarbon group by supplying a hydrocarbon group-containing gas to the substrate having the first base and a second base exposed on the surface of the substrate; and (b) forming a film on a surface of the second base by supplying an oxygen- and hydrogen-containing gas to the substrate after modifying the surface of the first base.

Methods of processing substrate and manufacturing semiconductor device by forming film, substrate processing apparatus, and recording medium

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

There is included (a) forming a protective film on a surface of a third base by supplying a processing gas to a substrate in which a first base containing no oxygen, a second base containing oxygen, and the third base containing no oxygen and no nitrogen are exposed on a surface of the substrate; (b) modifying a surface of the second base to be fluorine-terminated by supplying a fluorine-containing gas to the substrate after the protective film is formed on the surface of the third base; and (c) selectively forming a film on a surface of the first base by supplying a film-forming gas to the substrate after the surface of the second base is modified.

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

There is provided a technique that includes: substrate mounting plate where substrates are arranged circumferentially; rotator rotating the substrate mounting plate; gas supply structure disposed above the substrate mounting plate from center to outer periphery thereof; gas supplier including the gas supply structure and controlling supply amount of gas supplied from the gas supply structure; gas exhaust structure installed above the substrate mounting plate at downstream side of the gas supply structure in rotation direction; gas exhauster including the gas exhaust structure and controlling exhaust amount of gas exhausted from the gas exhaust structure; and gas main component amount controller including the gas supplier and the gas exhauster and controlling gas main component amount in the gas supplied from the gas supply structure to the substrates and the gas main component amount in the gas supplied to the substrates from the center to the outer periphery of the mounting plate.

Substrate processing apparatus

There is provided a technique that includes: (a) modifying a surface of one base among a first base and a second base to be F-terminated by supplying a fluorine-containing radical generated from a fluorine-containing gas to a substrate where the first base and the second base are exposed at a surface of the substrate; and (b) forming a film on a surface of the other base, which is different from the one base, among the first base and the second base by supplying a film-forming gas to the substrate after modifying the surface of the one base.

There is provide a technique that includes: etching a base exposed on a surface of a substrate by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times, the cycle including non-simultaneously performing: (a) forming a modified layer on a surface of the base by supplying a modifying agent to the base; and (b) causing a reaction between a halogen-containing radical and the base by supplying a halogen-containing gas to the modified layer such that the modified layer reacts with the halogen-containing gas to generate the halogen-containing radical.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device by supplying gas

There is provided a technique that includes: (a) forming a silicon germanium film in an amorphous state so as to embed an inside of a recess formed on a surface of a substrate, by supplying a first silicon-containing gas and a germanium-containing gas to the substrate at a first temperature; (b) raising a temperature of the substrate from the first temperature to a second temperature, which is higher than the first temperature; and (c) forming a silicon film on the silicon germanium film by supplying a second silicon-containing gas to the substrate at the second temperature, wherein in (c), the silicon germanium film as a base of the silicon film is crystallized while the silicon film is formed.

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Takashi Nakagawa