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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Oleg Gluschenkov, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Suryanarayan G. Hegde, Hollowville, NY (US);
Helmut H. Tews, Munich, DE;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/126 ; H01L 2/131 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/126 ; H01L 2/131 ;
Abstract
Forming a vertical MOS transistor or making another three-dimensional integrated circuit structure in a silicon wafer exposes planes having at least two different crystallographic orientations. Growing oxide on different crystal planes is inherently at different growth rates because the inter-atomic spacing is different in the different planes. Heating the silicon in a nitrogen-containing ambient to form a thin layer of nitride and then growing the oxide through the thin nitrided layer reduces the difference in oxide thickness to less than 1%.