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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2024
Filed:
May. 31, 2018
Eugenus, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Vinayak Veer Vats, San Ramon, CA (US);
M. Ziaul Karim, San Jose, CA (US);
Bo Seon Choi, Yongin-si, KR;
Somilkumar J. Rathi, San Jose, CA (US);
Niloy Mukherjee, San Ramon, CA (US);
Eugenus, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed technology generally relates to semiconductor structures and their fabrication, and more particularly to diffusion barrier structures containing Ti, Si, N and methods of forming same. A method of forming an electrically conductive diffusion barrier comprises providing a substrate in a reaction chamber and forming a titanium silicide (TiSi) region on the substrate by alternatingly exposing the substrate to a titanium-containing precursor and a first silicon-containing precursor. The method additionally comprises forming a titanium silicon nitride (TiSiN) region on the TiSi region by alternatingly exposing the substrate to a titanium-containing precursor, a nitrogen-containing precursor and a second silicon-containing precursor. The method can optionally include, prior to forming the TiSi region, forming a titanium nitride (TiN) region by alternatingly exposing the substrate to a titanium-containing precursor and a nitrogen-containing precursor.