Hitachi-kokusai Electric Inc.

Kokusai Electric Corporation

Tatsushi Ueda

Masanori Nakayama

Tadashi Terasaki

Yasutoshi Tsubota

Katsunori Funaki

Unryu Ogawa

Akito Hirano

Hiroto Igawa

Yuichiro Takeshima

Yuki Yamakado

Eiko Takami

Naofumi Ohashi

Takayuki Sato

Hideharu Itatani

Katsuhiko Yamamoto

Koichiro Harada

Noriaki Michita

Keita Ichimura

Junichi Tanabe

Yuki Taira

There is provided a technique that includes: preparing the substrate including a silicon-containing film and a metal film composed of a metal element, which includes at least one selected from the group of tungsten, titanium, ruthenium, and molybdenum and, which are formed on a surface of the substrate; and simultaneously performing modifying the metal film and modifying the silicon-containing film by supplying reactive species, which are generated by plasma-exciting a processing gas containing hydrogen and oxygen, to the substrate.

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

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes accommodating a substrate in a process chamber; supplying a first gas containing oxygen into the process chamber; generating plasma in the process chamber by exciting the first gas; supplying a second gas containing hydrogen into the process chamber and adjusting a hydrogen concentration distribution in the process chamber according to a density distribution of the plasma in the process chamber; and processing the substrate with oxidizing species generated by the plasma.

According to one aspect of the technique, there is provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, including: (a) forming a first oxide layer by modifying a surface of a substrate at a first temperature with a plasma of a first oxygen-containing gas; and (b) forming a second oxide layer thicker than the first oxide layer by heating the substrate to a second temperature higher than the first temperature and modifying the surface of the substrate, on which the first oxide layer is formed, with a plasma of a second oxygen-containing gas.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device, substrate processing apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium

There is provided a technique that includes: loading a substrate having a metal film composed of a single metal element formed on a surface of the substrate into a process chamber; generating reactive species by plasma-exciting a processing gas containing hydrogen and oxygen; and modifying the metal film by supplying the reactive species to the substrate, wherein in the act of modifying the metal film, the metal film is modified such that a crystal grain size of the metal element constituting the metal film is larger than that before performing the act of modifying the metal film.

There is provided a technique that includes: (a) loading a substrate including a base and a first film containing silicon and formed on the base into a process container; (b) converting a modifying gas containing helium into plasma to generate reactive species of helium; and (c) supplying the modifying gas containing the reactive species of helium to a surface of the substrate to respectively modify the first film and an interface layer of the base constituting an interface with the first film.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device, and recording medium

There is provided a technique that includes: loading substrates into a process chamber and mounting the substrates on a substrate mounting stand, which is installed in the process chamber, along a circumferential direction; maintaining the substrate mounting stand at a substrate processing position; processing the substrates on the substrate mounting stand, which is maintained at the substrate processing position, by supplying a first gas and a second gas from a first gas supply unit and a second gas supply unit, respectively, arranged above the substrate mounting stand while rotating the substrate mounting stand; unloading the substrates from the process chamber; maintaining the substrate mounting stand at a cleaning position; and cleaning the substrate mounting stand, which is maintained at the cleaning position, by supplying a cleaning gas from a third gas supply unit arranged above the substrate mounting stand, wherein the cleaning position is lower than the substrate processing position.

Substrate processing apparatus

A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes generating hydrogen radicals by plasma excitation of hydrogen gas and exposing a surface of a substrate on which silicon and metal are exposed to a reducing atmosphere created with the hydrogen radicals, and generating hydrogen radicals and hydroxyl radicals by plasma excitation of a mixed gas of hydrogen gas and oxygen-containing gas and oxidizing the silicon exposed on the surface of the substrate by exposing the surface of the substrate to the hydrogen radicals and hydroxyl radicals to obtain the substrate on which the metal and oxidized silicon are formed.

Substrate processing method and substrate processing apparatus

A semiconductor device manufacturing method, including: mounting substrates on a mounting table within a processing chamber along a rotation direction of the table; starting to supply a first-element-containing gas to a first region in the chamber along the rotation direction, while rotating the table and exhausting the processing chamber; starting to supply a second-element-containing gas to a second region in the chamber; starting to generate, by a plasma generating unit in the second region, plasma of the second-element-containing gas in the second region to have a first activity; and forming a thin film containing first and second elements on the substrates by rotating the table to cause the substrates to sequentially pass through the first and second regions in turn so that a first-element-containing layer is formed in the first region and is modified in the second region by generating plasma having a second activity higher than the first activity.

A substrate supporting member provided in a processing chamber for processing the substrate and configured to support the substrate, has on its upper surface, a protruding area that supports an edge side of the substrate from below; a recessed area provided inside of the protruding area so as not to be brought into contact with the substrate supported by the protruding area; and an auxiliary protruding area formed lower than the protruding area and provided in the recessed area, and has a flow passage that is communicated with inside of the recessed area, for escaping gas between the substrate and the substrate supporting member from the recessed area side.

Substrate processing apparatus, method for manufacturing semiconductor device, method for processing substrates

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: accommodating a substrate having an oxide film formed thereon into a processing chamber; supplying a process gas to the substrate; performing a preprocessing step in which the process gas is excited in a state that a pressure within the processing chamber is kept at a first pressure and an electric potential of the substrate is kept at a first electric potential; and performing a main processing step by which the process gas is excited in a state that the pressure within the processing chamber is kept at a second pressure and the electric potential of the substrate is kept at a second electric potential, wherein the first pressure is lower than the second pressure and the first electric potential is lower than the second electric potential.

Semiconductor device manufacturing method, substrate processing apparatus, and non-transitory recording medium

A substrate can be appropriately oxidized, while oxidation of the substrate can be suppressed. The present invention includes a step of generating mixed plasma by causing a mixed gas of hydrogen (H2) gas and oxygen (O2) or oxygen-containing gas supplied to a processing chamber to form a plasma discharge, and processing the starting substrate by the mixed plasma; and a step of generating hydrogen plasma by causing hydrogen (H2) gas supplied to the processing chamber to form a plasma discharge, and processing the substrate by the hydrogen plasma.

A substrate can be appropriately oxidized, while oxidation of the substrate can be suppressed. The present invention includes a step of generating mixed plasma by causing a mixed gas of hydrogen (H2) gas and oxygen(O2) or oxygen/containing gas supplied to a processing chamber to form a plasma discharge, and processing the starting substrate by the mixed plasma; and a step of generating hydrogen plasma by causing hydrogen (H2) gas supplied to the processing chamber to form a plasma discharge, and processing the substrate by the hydrogen plasma.

To provide a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device for forming a diffusion layer by diffusing phosphorus atoms on a surface of a silicon substrate on which resist is applied, including the step of forming a diffusion layer, with a temperature of the silicon substrate maintained lower than a deterioration temperature of the resist.

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Tatsushi Ueda