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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2013
Applicant:
Globalfoundries Inc., Grand Cayman, KY;
Inventors:
Assignee:
GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc., Grand Cayman, KY;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/31 (2006.01); H01L 21/02 (2006.01); H01L 21/762 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/02271 (2013.01); H01L 21/76224 (2013.01); H01L 21/02164 (2013.01); H01L 21/0217 (2013.01); H01L 21/02277 (2013.01); H01L 21/02263 (2013.01); H01L 21/02225 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of forming a material layer on a substrate is provided. The method is based on a combination of an overheating before deposition and a cooling of the reaction chamber during a second deposition stage. The second deposition stage follows a first deposition stage preferably carried out at a predetermined temperature. This combination makes it possible to compensate for the reactant gas depletion across wafer throughout the whole deposition process. The method can be conveniently used when growing a nitride layer to be used as a hard mask during shallow trench isolation (STI) region formation.