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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2020
Applicant:
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 16/04 (2006.01); C23C 16/505 (2006.01); H01L 21/768 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 16/045 (2013.01); C23C 16/505 (2013.01); H01L 21/76837 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods for filling a substrate feature with a carbon gap fill, while leaving a void, are described. Methods comprise flowing a process gas into a high density plasma chemical vapor deposition (HDP-CVD) chamber, the chamber housing a substrate having at least one feature, the process gas comprising a hydrocarbon reactant, generating a plasma, and depositing a carbon film.