IP Library Granted Patent US 6,844,234
Granted Patent B2
US 6,844,234 · App. 10/101,913 · Granted Jan 18, 2005

Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device

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Patent No.
US 6,844,234
App. No.
10/101,913
Granted
Jan 18, 2005
Kind
B2
Abstract

A semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor substrate, a gate dielectrics formed on the semiconductor substrate and including a silicon oxide film containing a metallic element, the silicon oxide film containing the metallic element including a first region near a lower surface thereof, a second region near an upper surface thereof, and a third region between the first and second regions, the metallic element contained in the silicon oxide film having a density distribution in a thickness direction of the silicon oxide film, a peak of the density distribution existing in the third region, and an electrode formed on the gate dielectrics.

Claims (13)

1. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising: supplying, into a chamber in which a substrate is held, an organic compound containing silicon and an organic compound containing a metallic element selected from a group consisting of Zr, Hf, Al and La; and

forming a silicon oxide film containing the metallic element on the substrate by a thermal CVD method that does not use an active oxygen species.

2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising supplying an O 2 gas into the chamber.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the silicon oxide film containing the metallic element is a gate dielectric of a metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the organic compound containing the metallic element further contains another metallic element selected from a group consisting of Zr, Hf, Al and La.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein an amount of the organic compound containing the metallic element and supplied to the chamber is not more than {fraction (1/10)} an amount of the organic compound containing silicon and supplied to the chamber.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the following formula is satisfied:

0 <N M /( N M +N Si )<0.5

where the N M represents the number of atoms of the metallic element contained in the silicon oxide film, and the N Si represents the number of atoms of silicon contained in the silicon oxide film.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the organic compound containing silicon is an alkoxide compound of silicon.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the alkoxide compound of silicon is tetraethoxysilane.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the organic compound containing the metallic element is an alkoxide compound of the metallic element.

10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the alkoxide compound of the metallic element is a tertiarybuthoxy compound.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 11, 2017
From: TOSHIBA CORPORATION
To: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
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