IP Library Granted Patent US 7,056,839
Granted Patent B2
US 7,056,839 · App. 10/017,396 · Granted Jun 6, 2006

Method of forming a silica insulation film with a reduced dielectric constant

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Patent No.
US 7,056,839
App. No.
10/017,396
Granted
Jun 6, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention provides an insulator having a main component of silicon dioxide, wherein the insulator includes at least one kind of organic polymer such as benzene nucleuses distributed therein in order to reduce a dielectric constant thereof as well as a method of forming the same.

Claims (22)

1. A method of forming an insulator having a main component of silicon dioxide by a chemical vapor deposition method, wherein at least one kind of organic substance including benzene nucleuses is used as a benzene nucleus source so that said insulator includes said benzene nucleuses,

wherein said chemical vapor deposition method is carried out by maintaining a temperature of not less than about 500° C. so as to cause elimination reaction of said benzene nucleuses at the same time of deposition of said insulator, thereby to form said insulator including pores.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said benzene nucleus has a bonding structure with silicon atoms.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein at least one selected from the group consisting of phenyltrimethylsilane and phenyltrizuetboxysilafle is used as said benzene nucleus source.

4. The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein said organic substance as said benzene nucleus source is used together with a silicon source material.

5. The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein said organic substance as said benzene nucleus source is used alone without any silicon source material.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said benzene nucleus is free of a bonding structure with silicon atoms and said organic substance as said benzene nucleus source is used together with a silicon source material.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6 , wherein said organic substance has a structure of a single benzene nucleus.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7 , wherein said organic substance comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of toluene, benzene and xylene.

9. The method as claimed in claim 6 , wherein said organic substance has a structure of a plurality of benzene nucleuses.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9 , wherein said organic substance comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of naphthaleno, biphenyl and anthracene.

11. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said chemical vapor deposition method is a plasma chemical vapor deposition method.

12. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said chemical vapor deposition method is a low pressure chemical vapor deposition method.

13. A method of forming an insulator having a main component of silicon dioxide by a chemical vapor deposition method, wherein at least one kind of organic substance including benzene nucleuses is used as a benzene nucleus source so that said insulator includes said benzene nucleuses,

wherein after said insulator has been formed by said chemical vapor deposition method, then said benzene nucleuses are removed from said insulator thereby to form pores in said insulator, and

wherein said benzene nucleuses are removed by causing a combustion reaction in an oxygen atmosphere.

14. A method of forming an insulator having a main component of silicon dioxide by a chemical vapor deposition method, wherein at least one kind of organic substance including benzerie nucleuses is used as a benzene nucleus source so that said insulator includes said benzene nucleuses,

wherein after said insulator has been formed by said chemical vapor deposition method, then said benzene nucleuses are removed from said insulator thereby to form pores in said insulator,

wherein said benzene nucleuses are removed by causing an elimination reaction for eliminating benzene nucleuses from said insulator, and

wherein said elimination reaction is caused by exposure to oxygen radicals generated in a plasma.

15. The method as claimed in claim 14 , wherein said elimination reaction is caused by a heat treatment in a vacuum at a temperature of not less than 450° C.

16. The method as claimed in claim 14 , wherein said elimination reaction is caused by a heat treatment in an inert gas atmosphere at a temperature of not less than 450° C.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 23, 2019
From: CURRENT LIGHTING SOLUTIONS, LLC
To: EIE MATERIALS, INC,
Reel/Frame 050807/0884 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 28, 2015
From: NEC CORPORATION
To: GODO KAISHA IP BRIDGE 1
Reel/Frame 034834/0806 →