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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2000
Filed:
Jan. 14, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Shizuo Oguro, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C30B / ; C30B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
117 95 ; 117 97 ; 117935 ;
Abstract
A flat selective silicon epitaxial thin film in which facet formation and loading effect are suppressed is grown by using a conventional LPCVD system which does not require an ultrahigh vacuum environment. Raw material gases for film formation and atomic hydrogen formed in an atomic hydrogen formation chamber 2 installed separately from a reaction chamber is introduced into the reaction chamber, at a growth temperature in the range of 750-900.degree. C. and under a reaction chamber pressure in the range of 1-30 Torr.