IP Library Granted Patent US 9,972,500
Granted Patent B2
US 9,972,500 · App. 15/335,221 · Granted May 15, 2018

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device

Inventors: Yukinao Kaga (Toyama, JP); Arito Ogawa (Toyama, JP); Atsuro Seino (Toyama, JP); Atsuhiko Ashitani (Toyama, JP); Ryohei Maeno (Toyama, JP); Masanori Sakai (Toyama, JP)
Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric, Inc.
H01L21/28556C23C16/303C23C16/34C23C16/4412C23C16/45527C23C16/45546C23C16/45557C23C16/52H01L21/28562H01L21/28568H01L21/67103H01L21/67196H01L21/67201H01L21/67248H01L21/67389H01L21/68707H01L21/68742H01L21/68764H01L21/76843
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 9,972,500
App. No.
15/335,221
Granted
May 15, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention is provided to improve quality or manufacturing throughput of a semiconductor device. A method includes supplying a source gas to a substrate in a process chamber; exhausting an inside of the process chamber; supplying a reaction gas to the substrate; and exhausting the inside of the process chamber, wherein the source gas and/or the reaction gas is supplied in temporally separated pulses in the supply of the source gas and/or in the supply of the reaction gas. Then, the source gas and/or the reaction gas is supplied in temporally separated pulses to form a film during a gas supply time determined by a concentration distribution of by-products formed on a surface of the substrate.

Claims (15)

1. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device comprising forming a film on a substrate by repeating a cycle, the cycle comprising:

(a) supplying a source gas to the substrate accommodated in a process chamber and exhausting the source gas from the process chamber; and

(b) alternately repeating: (b-1) supplying a reaction gas to the substrate in the process chamber free of the source gas; and (b-2) exhausting the reaction gas from the process chamber, wherein

the reaction gas is supplied in (b-2) at a flow rate lower than a flow rate of the reaction gas supplied in (b-1), and

the flow rate of the reaction gas supplied in (b-2) increases as (b-2) is repeated in the cycle.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein each exhaust process in (a) and (b) comprises at least one of a vacuum exhaust and a gas purge by an inert gas supply.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the substrate comprises a pattern thereon.

4. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device comprising forming a thin film on a substrate by repeating a cycle, the cycle comprising:

(a) adsorbing a source gas on the substrate accommodated in a process chamber by performing: (a-1) supplying the source gas to the substrate; and (a-2) removing the source gas from the process chamber; and

(b) reacting a reaction gas with the source gas adsorbed on the substrate in the process chamber free of the source gas to form a thin film layer on the substrate by alternately repeating:

(b-1) supplying the reaction gas to the substrate; and (b-2) removing the reaction gas from the process chamber, wherein

the reaction gas is supplied in (b-2) at a flow rate lower than a flow rate of the reaction gas supplied in (b-1), and

the flow rate of the reaction gas supplied in (b-2) increases as (b-2) is repeated in the cycle.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein each of (a-2) and (b-2) comprises at least one of a vacuum exhaust and a gas purge by an inert gas supply.

6. The method of claim 4 , wherein the substrate comprises a pattern thereon.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 31, 2018
From: HITACHI KOKUSAI ELECTRIC INC.
To: KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 048008/0206 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2013-069116 · Mar 28, 2013 · national
JP 2014-046364 · Mar 10, 2014 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 14226145 · Mar 26, 2014
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