Fujitsu Corporation

Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited

Tokyo Electron Kabushiki Kaisha

Semiconductor Leading Edge Technologies, Inc.

Takayuki Ohba

Toshiya Suzuki

Seishi Murakami

Fumitake Mieno

Ade Asneil Akbar

Tatsushi Hara

Shiqin Xiao

Takuya Watanabe

Noriyoshi Shimizu

Nobuyuki Ohtsuka

Hideki Kitada

Nobuhiro Misawa

Mamoru Maeda

Atsuhiro Tsukune

Young Suk Kim

Kiyoshi Irino

Shinji Miyagaki

Yoshimi Shioya

Toshifumi Mori

Ryou Nakamura

Seigen Ri

Yoshihiro Sugita

Seiichi Suzuki

Akio Yamaguchi

Yusuke Morisaki

Masaaki Ichikawa

Masayuki Furuhashi

Shin-ichi Inoue

Norihisa Tsuzuki

Yasuo Uo-ochi

Kenji Morishita

Shimpei Jinnouchi

Yasushi Oyama

Akira Tabuchi

A method of forming a dielectric film on a substrate surface includes the steps of forming the dielectric film on the substrate surface in plural steps, and reforming, in each of the plural steps of forming the dielectric film, the dielectric film in an ambient primarily of nitrogen.

Method of forming a dielectric film

A multilayer interconnection structure that offers a fast semiconductor operation is realized by employing copper wiring, electro migration of which is prevented from occurring by providing a via plug that includes a layer of a high melting-point metal, such as tungsten.

Semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof

The semiconductor device fabrication method comprises the step of forming gate electrodeon a semiconductor substratewith a gate insulation filmformed therebetween; the step of implanting dopants in the semiconductor substratewith the gate electrodeas the mask to form dopant diffused regions; the step of forming a silicon oxide filmon the semiconductor substrate, covering the gate electrodes; anisotropically etching the silicon oxide filmto form sidewall spacersincluding the silicon oxide filmon the side walls of the gate electrode. In the step of forming a silicon oxide film, the silicon oxide filmis formed by thermal CVD at a 500&#x2013;580&#xb0; C. film forming temperature, using bis(tertiary-butylamino)silane and oxygen as raw materials. Silicon oxide filmis formed at a relatively low film forming temperature, whereby the diffusion of the dopant in the doapnt diffused regionsforming the shallow region of the extension source/drain structure can be suppressed.

Method for fabricating a semiconductor device including the use of a compound containing silicon and nitrogen to form an insulation film of SiN or SiCN

An insulating film made of zirconia or hafnia is formed on the surface of a semiconductor substrate. A partial surface area of the insulating film is covered with a mask pattern. By using the mask pattern as a mask, ions are implanted into a region of the insulating film not covered with the mask pattern to give damages to the insulating film. By using the mask pattern as a mask, a portion of the insulating film is etched.

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A semiconductor device production method that is used to uniformly and efficiently reduce metal oxides produced on metal (copper, for example) which forms electrodes or wirings on a semiconductor device. An object to be treated on which copper oxides are produced is put into a process chamber and is heated by a heater to a predetermined temperature. Then carboxylic acid stored in a storage tank is vaporized by a carburetor. The vaporized carboxylic acid, together with carrier gas, is introduced into the process chamber via a treating gas feed pipe to reduce the copper oxides produced on the object to be treated to metal copper. As a result, metal oxides can be reduced uniformly without making the surfaces of electrodes or wirings irregular. Moreover, in this case, carbon dioxide and water are both produced in a gaseous state. This prevents impurities from remaining on the surface of copper.

Semiconductor device production method and semiconductor device production apparatus

The present invention provides a method for wiring, which plugs conductive material sufficiently into a via hole produced in dielectronics (hereinafter, referred to as &ldquo;a via hole&rdquo;) and prevents generating a void. The via hole is made through a via hole patterning step and a cleaning step. At a surface treatment step, substance having chemical affinity (active site) is adsorbed to the surface of the via hole. Next, an electron donative layer is made by depositing substance having an electron donative characteristic on the active sites acting as cores at an electron donative layer formation step. Then, the wiring material is plugged at a via hole plug step.

Method and apparatus for wiring, wire, and integrated circuit

When an object of treatment is subjected to, for example, a gas treatment in an airtight chamber, reaction products adhere to the inner wall surface of the chamber, an object holder therein, and the corner portions of the chamber. When a cleaning medium is injected into the chamber, according to the present invention, the reaction products are dissolved in the cleaning medium by hydrolysis. Thereafter, the cleaning medium is discharged from the chamber. Then, the chamber is heated and evacuated, so that water vapor is discharged to provide a predetermined degree of vacuum, whereupon the treatment can be started anew. Therefore, a wiping operation can be omitted. Moreover, the reaction products remaining at the corner portions of the chamber can be removed without forming a source of polluted particles, so that the necessity of overhauling can be obviated. Thus, fully automatic cleaning, so to speak, can be effected, and the chamber need not be open to the atmosphere, so that the throughput can be improved.

Vacuum treatment apparatus and a cleaning method therefor

A refractory metal nitride is deposited at a temperature of 600.degree. C. according to a chemical vapor phase deposition method by using a source gas containing a refractory metallic element and a reduction gas containing one of an alkyl amino compound, alkyl azide compound, hydrazine and a hydrazine alkyl compound for reducing the source gas. This refractory metal nitride is used as a barrier metal material for interconnection in a semiconductor device. When forming a refractory metal nitride as a barrier metal on a silicon layer or forming a contact metal between the barrier metal and the silicon layer, a natural oxide film on the surface of the silicon layer set in a pressure-reduced atmosphere is removed by reducing with hydrazine or a hydrazine alkyl compound.

Method for deposition of a refractory metal nitride and method for

A chemical vapor deposition (CVD) system for depositing a material selectively on a part of a substrate comprises a reaction chamber in which a CVD process is performed, a substrate holder and substrate heater provided within the reaction chamber, a gas inlet fixture provided on the reaction chamber for introducing one or more CVD source gases into the reaction chamber, and a reactant distribution fixture provided on the gas inlet fixture within the reaction chamber for controlling distribution of the reactant species in the reaction chamber, wherein the reactant distribution fixture defines a subspace surrounding the substrate within the space of the reaction chamber such that the subspace has a dimension, measured in a direction generally perpendicular to the surface of the substrate such that the dimension is at least less than one half of the mean free path of the reactant species realized inside the space of the reaction chamber during the CVD process and such that an opening is formed for communicating the subspace inside the reaction distribution means with the rest of the space of the reaction chamber for freely passing product species formed as a result of the chemical reaction at the surface of the substrate.

Chemical vapor deposition system

A method of forming metal contact wiring layers in semiconductor devices by cleaning the surface of an exposed substrate of a contact hole formed to the SiO.sub.2 film on a semiconductor substrate with the reducing effect of N.sub.2 H.sub.4 gas, thereafter forming a TiN barrier layer by the CVD method using the mixed gas of N.sub.2 H.sub.4 and TiCl.sub.4 while the surface is not exposed to the air, then forming a tungsten contact layer thereon by the CVD method using the mixed gas of N.sub.2 H.sub.4 and WF.sub.6, or forming the TiN layer by the CVD method on the tungsten contact layer formed by the CVD method on the substrate.

Method for manufacturing semiconductor device

In the course of a production of a semiconductor device with a multilayer insulating layer, when a contact hole is opened in the multilayer insulating layer, an insulating layer activating a metal selective vapor-growth appears at the side wall of the contact hole. A thin metal (e.g., tungsten) layer is selectively deposited in the contact hole. In another case, another metal layer appears within the contact hole. An insulating film preventing a metal selective vapor-growth is deposited over the whole surface of the side wall of the contact hole, the metal layer and a top surface of the multilayer insulating layer, and is anisotropically etched to leave a portion of the film lying on the side wall only as a side wall insulating film. The contact hole is completely filled with another metal (tungsten) by a selective vapor-growth method, to flatten an exposed surface, and then a conductor (e.g., aluminum) line layer is formed on the metal layer in the contact hole and the multilayer insulating layer, to thereby complete the wiring structure of the semiconductor device.

Method of forming wiring of a semiconductor device

A method of selectively forming (growing or depositing) a silicon-containing metal layer on an exposed surface of a semiconductor substrate or a conductor by using a metal halide gas and a silicon hydride gas at a ratio of a flow rate of the latter gas to that of the former gas (e.g., Si.sub.n H.sub.2n+2 /WF.sub.6) of 2 or less, and setting a growth temperature at 200.degree. C. or less. When a Si.sub.3 H.sub.8 gas and a WF.sub.6 gas, in particular, are used at a ratio of the flow rates (Si.sub.3 H.sub.8 /WF.sub.6) of 1.0 or less, and the deposition temperature is set at 100.degree. C. to room temperature, a silicon-containing tungsten layer is selectively deposited (formed).

Method of selectively forming a silicon-containing metal layer

A method of selectively depositing tungsten upon a silicon semiconductor substrate. A silicon substrate is coated with a masking film of PSG or SiO.sub.2 that is patterned to provide an opening for forming an electrode or wiring. On a portion of the substrate in the opening, a layer of tungsten having a thickness of approximately 2000 .ANG. is deposited by a CVD method from an atomosphere containing a gaseous mixture of WF.sub.6 and H.sub.2 . During this processing, tungsten nucleuses deposit on the surface of the masking film as well. Before such nucleuses form a film, the deposition processing is discontinued and H.sub.2 gas is fed into the CVD apparatus to produce HF, which etches the surface of the masking film, and thus tungsten nucleuses are removed. The deposition and removal steps are repeated several times until the height of the deposited tungsten and the thickness of the masking film are essentially equal to present a flat surface. Aluminum film is deposited on the flat surface and patterned by lithography. The flat aluminum deposition allows fabrication of accurate and reliable wirings and facilitates production of VLSI of sub-micron order.

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