Method of manufacturing semiconductor device and substrate processing method
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device for forming a thin film having low permittivity, high etching resistance and high leak resistance is provided. The method includes: forming a film containing a predetermined element, oxygen, carbon and nitrogen on a substrate by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times. The cycle includes: (a) supplying a source gas containing the predetermined element and a halogen element to the substrate; (b) supplying a first reactive gas containing the three elements including carbon, nitrogen and hydrogen wherein a number of carbon atoms in each molecule of the first reactive gas is greater than that of nitrogen atoms in each molecule of the first reactive gas to the substrate; (c) supplying a nitriding gas as a second reactive gas to the substrate; and (d) supplying an oxidizing gas as a third reactive gas to the substrate, wherein (a) through (d) are non-simultaneously performed.
1. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising:
forming a film containing a predetermined element, oxygen, carbon and nitrogen on a substrate in a process chamber by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times, the cycle including non-simultaneously performing:
(a) supplying a source gas containing the predetermined element and a halogen element to the substrate in the process chamber;
(b) supplying a first reactive gas containing carbon, nitrogen and hydrogen to the substrate in the process chamber wherein number of carbon atoms in each molecule of the first reactive gas is greater than that of nitrogen atoms in each molecule of the first reactive gas; and
(c) supplying an oxidizing gas as a second reactive gas to the substrate in the process chamber,
wherein an inner pressure of the process chamber in (b) is greater than that of the process chamber in (a), and the cycle further includes: (d) supplying a nitriding gas as a third reactive gas to the substrate.
2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first reactive gas comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of amine and organic hydrazine.
3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first reactive gas comprises at least one amine selected from the group consisting of ethylamine, methylamine, propylamine, isopropylamine, butylamine, and isobutylamine.
4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first reactive gas contains a plurality of ligands containing the carbon atoms.
5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first reactive gas is a silicon-free and metal-free gas.
6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first reactive gas is a silicon-free gas.
7. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the second reactive gas comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of NH 3 gas, N 2 H 2 gas, N 2 H 4 gas and N 3 H 8 gas.
8. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the third reactive gas comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of O 2 gas, N 2 O gas, NO gas, NO 2 gas, O 3 gas, H 2 gas+O 2 gas, H 2 gas+O 3 gas, H 2 O gas, CO gas and CO 2 gas.
9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined element comprises silicon or a metal, and the halogen element comprises chlorine or fluorine.
10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein each of the first reactive gas, the second reactive gas, and the third reactive gas is thermally activated under non-plasma condition and supplied to the substrate.
11. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising:
forming a film containing silicon, oxygen, carbon and nitrogen on a substrate in a process chamber by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times, the cycle including non-simultaneously performing:
(a) supplying a source gas containing silicon and a halogen element to the substrate in the process chamber;
(b) supplying a first reactive gas containing carbon, nitrogen and hydrogen to the substrate in the process chamber wherein number of carbon atoms in each molecule of the first reactive gas is greater than that of nitrogen atoms in each molecule of the first reactive gas; and
(c) supplying an oxidizing gas as a second reactive gas to the substrate in the process chamber,
wherein an inner pressure of the process chamber in (b) is greater than that of the process chamber in (a), and the cycle further includes: (d) supplying a nitriding gas as a third reactive gas to the substrate.
12. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising:
forming a film containing a metal element, oxygen, carbon and nitrogen on a substrate in a process chamber by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times, the cycle including non-simultaneously performing:
(a) supplying a source gas containing the metal element and a halogen element to the substrate in the process chamber;
(b) supplying a first reactive gas containing carbon, nitrogen and hydrogen to the substrate in the process chamber wherein number of carbon atoms in each molecule of the first reactive gas is greater than that of nitrogen atoms in each molecule of the first reactive gas; and
(c) supplying an oxidizing gas as a second reactive gas to the substrate in the process chamber,
wherein an inner pressure of the process chamber in (b) is greater than that of the process chamber in (a), and the cycle further includes: (d) supplying a nitriding gas as a third reactive gas to the substrate.