IP Library Granted Patent US 10,460,953
Granted Patent B2
US 10,460,953 · App. 15/904,878 · Granted Oct 29, 2019

Semiconductor manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing a semiconductor device having a high-K insulating film, and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device

Inventor: Yoshihide Yamaguchi (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
H01L21/31122H01L21/02181H01L21/02183H01L21/02186H01L21/02189H01L21/02192H01L21/28185H01L21/31144H01L21/67017H01L21/6719H01L21/67069H01L29/517C23C16/45559
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Patent No.
US 10,460,953
App. No.
15/904,878
Granted
Oct 29, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus including: a container in which a processing chamber is installed; a stage installed in the processing chamber and configured to hold a semiconductor substrate; a gas supply line configured to supply reactive gas to the processing chamber; and a vacuum line configured to exhaust the processing chamber, wherein the semiconductor substrate includes a high-k insulating film, and as the reactive gas, mixed gas including complex-forming gas forming a volatile organometallic complex by reacting with a metal element included in the high-k insulating film and complex stabilizing material gas that increases stability of the organometallic complex is supplied.

Claims (13)

1. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, the method comprising:

placing, in a processing chamber, a semiconductor substrate on which a mask layer having a predetermined pattern shape is formed on a high-k insulating film;

desorbing gas or a foreign matter adsorbed on a surface of the semiconductor substrate;

supplying reactive gas to the processing chamber in a state where a temperature of the semiconductor substrate falls below a predetermined temperature;

stopping the supply of the reactive gas and heating the semiconductor substrate; and

vaporizing an organometallic complex generated by reacting with a metal element included in the high-k insulating film and exhausting the vaporized organometallic complex from the processing chamber,

wherein the reactive gas is mixed gas including complex-forming gas forming the organometallic complex by reacting with the metal element included in the high-k insulating film and complex stabilizing material gas that increases stability of the organometallic complex.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the metal element included in the high-k insulating film is a metal element classified in a fifth period and the following periods of a periodic table.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the metal element included in the high-k insulating film is a rare earth element.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a raw material for the complex-forming gas is an organic compound capable of forming at least two or more coordination bonds to a transition metal atom, that is, a so-called multidentate ligand molecule.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the raw material for the complex-forming gas includes any of diketones, ketoester, and ketoimine.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a raw material for the complex stabilizing material gas is an organic compound having two or more elements having an unshared electron pair such as an oxygen atom or a nitrogen atom in a molecular skeleton and five or more atoms except for a hydrogen atom and a fluorine atom.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the raw material for the complex stabilizing material gas is ethers.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME AND ADDRESS Recorded Mar 30, 2020
From: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
To: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 052259/0227 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 8, 2018
From: YAMAGUCHI, YOSHIHIDE
To: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 045146/0552 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2017-085910 · Apr 25, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
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