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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2002

Filed:

May. 20, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:

Sven Schmidbauer, Dresden, DE;

Alexander Ruf, Dresden, DE;

Oliver Gehring, Dresden, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/144 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/144 ;
Abstract

A process for producing metal-containing layers, in particular metal-containing diffusion barriers, contact layers and/or antireflection layers. The process according to the invention has a first step in which a metal layer having a predetermined thickness at an elevated temperature is applied to a semiconductor structure. Next, the metal layer is cooled in a nitrogen-containing atmosphere, resulting in a metal nitride layer being formed.


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