IP Library Granted Patent US 12680155
Granted Patent B2
US 12680155 · App. 19/027,124 · Granted Jul 14, 2026

Method for forming film

Inventors: Yu-Ming Chang (Taoyuan City, TW); Yun-Shan Wang (Taoyuan City, TW); Hsien-Yeh Chen (Taoyuan City, TW); Paichun Chang (Taoyuan City, TW)
Assignee: Tripod Technology Corporation
C23C14/24C23C14/12
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Patent No.
US 12680155
App. No.
19/027,124
Granted
Jul 14, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for forming film includes the following steps: controlling a temperature of a workpiece in a chamber, so that a gaseous state sacrificial material desublimates into solid state on a surface of the workpiece to form a solid state sacrificial material layer; controlling a pressure in the chamber and the temperature of the workpiece, so that the solid state sacrificial material layer starts gradually sublimating into gaseous state; providing reactive polymer monomers into the chamber, so that the reactive polymer monomers start being deposited on the solid state sacrificial material layer through an adsorption process, and a polymerization reaction of the reactive polymer monomers is initiated, at the same time, the solid state sacrificial material layer continues gradually sublimating into gaseous state until completely sublimating into gaseous state, and the reactive polymer monomers form a polymer layer deposited on the surface of the workpiece.

Claims (15)

1 . A method for forming film comprising following steps of:

performing a desublimation process, the desublimation process includes following steps of:

providing a workpiece into a chamber device;

providing a gaseous state sacrificial material into the chamber device, wherein the gaseous state sacrificial material is composed of iodine; and

controlling a temperature of the workpiece within a desublimation temperature range, so that the gaseous state sacrificial material desublimates into solid state on a surface of the workpiece to form a solid state sacrificial material layer on the surface of the workpiece, wherein during the desublimation process, the desublimation temperature range is smaller than or equal to 110° C., and a pressure in the chamber device is greater than or equal to 1 atm; and

performing a sublimation and deposition process, the sublimation and deposition process includes following steps of:

controlling the pressure in the chamber device within a sublimation deposition pressure range, and controlling the temperature of the workpiece in the chamber device within a sublimation deposition temperature range, so that the solid state sacrificial material layer on the surface of the workpiece starts gradually sublimating into gaseous state; and

providing a plurality of reactive polymer monomers into the chamber device, so that the plurality of reactive polymer monomers starts being deposited on the solid state sacrificial material layer on the surface of the workpiece through an adsorption process, and a polymerization reaction of the plurality of reactive polymer monomers is initiated, at the same time, the solid state sacrificial material layer continues gradually sublimating into gaseous state; until the solid state sacrificial material layer completely sublimates into gaseous state, and the plurality of reactive polymer monomers forms a polymer layer deposited on the surface of the workpiece after the polymerization reaction.

2 . The method for forming film according to claim 1 , wherein after performing the desublimation process and before performing the sublimation and deposition process, the method further comprises a following step of: removing the gaseous state sacrificial material from the chamber device.

3 . The method for forming film according to claim 1 , wherein the chamber device includes a desublimation chamber and a sublimation and deposition chamber, wherein the desublimation process is performed in the desublimation chamber of the chamber device, wherein after performing the desublimation process and before performing the sublimation and deposition process, the method further comprises a following step of: moving the workpiece from the desublimation chamber of the chamber device to the sublimation and deposition chamber of the chamber device, such that the sublimation and deposition process is performed in the sublimation and deposition chamber of the chamber device.

4 . The method for forming film according to claim 1 , wherein the material of the polymer layer is at least one selected from the group consisting of poly(p-xylylene), functionalized poly(p-xylylene), poly(tetrafluoroethylene), poly(alkyl acrylates), poly(3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene), poly(4-vinylpyridine), poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate), poly(1H, 1H, 2H, 2H-perfluorodecyl acrylate), poly(glycidyl methacrylate), poly(p-phenylenevinylene), poly(methyl methacrylate), poly(N-vinylcaprolactam), poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) and poly(dimethylsiloxane).

5 . The method for forming film according to claim 1 , wherein during the desublimation process, a relative vapor concentration of the gaseous state sacrificial material in the chamber device is greater than or equal to 30%.

6 . The method for forming film according to claim 1 , wherein the surface of the workpiece is an irregular surface, a flat surface, a curved surface, or any combination thereof.

7 . The method for forming film according to claim 1 , wherein the surface of the workpiece is an outer surface, an inner surface having at least one opening, or any combination thereof.

8 . The method for forming film according to claim 1 , wherein the material of the workpiece is at least one selected from the group consisting of metal, ceramic, polymer materials, semiconductor, oxide, nitride and sulfide.