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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 1994
Filed:
Sep. 09, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
William G Petro, San Jose, CA (US);
Farhad K Moghadam, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
437192 ;
Abstract
A method for cleaning a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process for depositing tungsten. After the tungsten has been deposited and the wafer has been removed from the chamber, the chamber undergoes an in-situ cleaning process. In the currently preferred embodiment the in-situ cleaning process consists of cleaning the chamber with nitrogen tri-fluoride (NF.sub.3) and hydrogen (H.sub.2) nitrogen (N.sub.2) plasmas. The tungsten CVD cleaning process also includes purging the chamber with the dilute mixture of silane (SiH.sub.4), argon (Ar) and nitrogen (N.sub.2).