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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2000
Yoshihide Senzaki, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Arthur Kenneth Hochberg, Solana Beach, CA (US);
John Anthony Thomas Norman, Encinitas, CA (US);
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Abstract
A process for deposition of a multiple metal and metalloid compound layer with a compositional gradient of the metal and metalloid in the layer on a substrate of an electronic material, comprising: a) providing two or more metal-ligand and metalloid-ligand complex precursors, wherein the ligands are preferably the same; b) delivering the precursors to a deposition zone where the substrate is located; c) contacting the substrate under deposition conditions with the precursors; d) varying the temperature of deposition from a first temperature to a second distinct temperature which is at least 40° C. from said first temperature during the contact, and e) depositing a multiple metal and metalloid compound layer on the substrate from the precursors resulting in the compositional gradient of the metal and metalloid in the layer as a result of step d). An oxygen source can be added to result in a metal-metalloid oxide, or a nitrogen source can be added to result in a metal-metalloid nitride, or a mixture of an oxygen and a nitrogen source can be added to result in a metal-metalloid oxynitride. The metalloid would preferably be silicon.