IP Library Patent Application 12472118
Patent Application
App. No. 12/472,118

APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE

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12/472,118
Abstract

Variation in the thickness of the deposited films depending on number of the processed product wafers in the deposition process employing a batch type CVD apparatus is inhibited to provide a manufacture of the film having a predetermined thickness with an improved reproducibility. The deposition apparatus 100 comprises a deposition reactor 101 that is capable of containing product wafers 107 and dummy wafers 109 , boat 105 , on which product wafer 107 or the dummy wafer 109 is mounted, and a heater 111 provided outside of the deposition reactor 101 along a reactor wall 103 . Further, the deposition apparatus 100 comprises a gas supplying system including a high-k source material supplying line 113 and SiO 2 source material supplying line 115 , and a controller 121 that provides a control to the supply of a gas from the gas supplying system to the deposition reactor 101.

Claims (17)

1 . A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device comprising a deposition process for collectively forming predetermined films on surfaces of a plurality of semiconductor wafers, said deposition process includes:

preparing at least one piece of dummy wafer having a pre-coating film on said dummy wafer, which is different in composition from said predetermined film; and

providing said predetermined films simultaneously on a surface of said dummy wafer prepared in said preparing said dummy wafer and on a surface of a product wafer.

2 . The method according to claim 7 ,

wherein said preparing said dummy wafer includes providing a film on the surface of said dummy wafer, said film being composed of a material that is the same as a material of said surface to be deposited of said product wafer, and

wherein said simultaneously providing said predetermined films includes providing a film of a material that is different from said material of said surface to be deposited of said product wafer.

3 . The method according to claim 7 ,

wherein said preparing the dummy wafer includes containing said dummy wafer within a batch type deposition reactor that is adopted to simultaneously deposit films on a plurality of semiconductor wafers, and providing said pre-coating film on the surface of said dummy wafer and on the wall of said deposition reactor, and

wherein said simultaneously providing said predetermined films is conducted within said deposition reactor having said pre-coating film provided in said deposition reactor.

4 . The method according to claim 7 , wherein said simultaneously providing said predetermined films includes providing a predetermined film containing O and one or more metal(s) selected from the group consisting of Hf, Al and Zr on surfaces of said dummy wafer and said product wafer.

5 . The method according to claim 4 , wherein said predetermined film is a film further containing elemental Si and/or elemental N.

6 . The method according to claim 7 , wherein a surface to be deposited of said product wafer is a surface of a film composed of any of a metal, a metal oxide and a metal nitride.

7 . The method according to claim 7 ,

wherein a surface to be deposited of said product wafer is a surface of a SiO 2 film, and

wherein said preparing the dummy wafer includes pre-coating a SiO 2 film on a surface of said dummy wafer.

8 . The method according to claim 7 , wherein a surface to be deposited of said product wafer is a surface of a TiN film, and

wherein said preparing the dummy wafer includes pre-coating a TiN film on a surface of said dummy wafer.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 26, 2010
From: NEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
To: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 025193/0165 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 1, 2009
From: YAMAMOTO, ICHIRO; WATANABE, KOJI
To: NEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 022758/0578 →