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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 1996
Filed:
Jul. 25, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C / ; H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
20419227 ; 20419218 ; 20419216 ; 20419222 ; 20419225 ; 437247 ; 148D / ;
Abstract
A method for enhancing aluminum nitride includes, in one version, annealing sputtered aluminum nitride in a reducing atmosphere (11), and subsequently annealing the sputtered aluminum nitride in an inert atmosphere (12). A superior aluminum nitride thin film (13) results. The films can withstand exposure to boiling water for times up to twenty minutes and maintain a refractive index, N.sub.f, greater than 2.0, and a preferred crystalline orientation ratio, I(002)/I(102), in excess of 1000.