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Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 13, 2013
Applicant:

Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Bhushan N. Zope, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Avgerinos V. Gelatos, Redwood City, CA (US);

Assignee:

Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/44 (2006.01); H01L 21/285 (2006.01); C23C 14/22 (2006.01); C23C 16/18 (2006.01); C23C 16/50 (2006.01); H01L 21/768 (2006.01); C23C 16/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/28562 (2013.01); C23C 14/22 (2013.01); C23C 16/0245 (2013.01); C23C 16/0281 (2013.01); C23C 16/18 (2013.01); C23C 16/50 (2013.01); H01L 21/76841 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a method of forming a cobalt layer on a dielectric material without incubation delay. Prior to depositing the cobalt layer using CVD, the surface of the dielectric material is pretreated at a temperature between 100° C. and 250° C. Since the subsequent CVD cobalt process is also performed at between 100° C. and 250° C., one processing chamber is used for pretreating the dielectric material and forming of the cobalt layer. The combination of processing steps enables use of two processing chambers to deposit cobalt.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Zope, Bhushan. (2015). Surface treatment to improve cctba based cvd co nucleation on dielectric substrate (U.S. Patent No. 9218980). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9218980

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