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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2004
Filed:
May. 20, 2003
Atiye Bayman, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Md Sazzadur Rahman, San Jose, CA (US);
Weijie Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Bart van Schravendijk, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Vishal Gauri, San Jose, CA (US);
George D. Papasoulitotis, Cupertino, CA (US);
Vikram Singh, Fremont, CA (US);
Novellus Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Chemical vapor deposition processes are employed to fill high aspect ratio (typically at least 3:1), narrow width (typically 1.5 microns or less and even sub 0.15 micron) gaps with significantly reduced incidence of voids or weak spots. This deposition process involves the use of hydrogen as a process gas in the reactive mixture of a plasma containing CVD reactor. The process gas also includes dielectric forming precursor molecules such as silicon and oxygen containing molecules.