IP Library Patent Application 15906933
Patent Application
App. No. 15/906,933

SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE

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15/906,933
Abstract

A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes: a stage installed inside a processing chamber and holding a semiconductor substrate having a high-k insulating film including silicate; and a gas supply line including a first system supplying reactive gas to the processing chamber and a second system supplying catalytic gas to the processing chamber, wherein mixed gas which includes complex forming gas reacting with a metal element included in the high-k insulating film to form a first volatile organometallic complex and complex stabilizing material gas increasing stability of the first organometallic complex is supplied as the reactive gas, and catalytic gas using a second organometallic complex, which modifies the high-k insulating film and promotes a formation reaction of the first organometallic complex, as a raw material is supplied.

Claims (47)

1 . A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, comprising:

a container in which a processing chamber is provided;

a stage provided inside the processing chamber and holding a semiconductor substrate having a high-k insulating film including silicate; and

a gas supply line including a first system supplying reactive gas to the processing chamber and a second system supplying catalytic gas to the processing chamber, wherein

mixed gas which includes complex forming gas reacting with a metal element included in the high-k insulating film to form a first volatile organometallic complex and complex stabilizing material gas increasing stability of the first organometallic complex is supplied as the reactive gas, and

catalytic gas using a second organometallic complex, which modifies the high-k insulating film and promotes a formation reaction of the first organometallic complex, as a raw material is supplied as the catalytic gas.

2 . The semiconductor manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the metal element included in the high-k insulating film is a metal element classified in a fifth period in a periodic table and succeeding periods, and

the high-k insulating film includes silicate of the metal element.

3 . The semiconductor manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the metal element included in the high-k insulating film is a rare earth element, and

the high-k insulating film includes silicate of the rare earth element.

4 . The semiconductor manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the first system includes a first vaporizer,

the second system includes a second vaporizer,

the first vaporizer vaporizes a mixed chemical liquid of a chemical stock liquid for the complex forming gas and a chemical stock liquid for the complex stabilizing material gas under a predetermined temperature and pressure condition, and

the second vaporizer vaporizes a chemical stock liquid using the second organometallic complex as a raw material under the predetermined temperature and pressure condition.

5 . A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising:

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

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

supplying catalytic gas under decompression and heating;

cooling the semiconductor substrate after a supply of the catalytic gas is stopped and supplying reactive gas to the processing chamber in a state in which a temperature of the semiconductor substrate falls below a predetermined temperature;

decompressing and heating an inside of the processing chamber by stopping the supply of the reactive gas; and

exhausting a first organometallic complex from the processing chamber by vaporizing the first organometallic complex generated by reacting with a metal element included in the high-k insulating film.

6 . The method for manufacturing a semiconductor device according to claim 5 , wherein

the catalytic gas is catalytic gas using a second organometallic complex, which modifies the high-k insulating film and promotes a formation reaction of the first organometallic complex, as a raw material, and

the reactive gas is mixed gas which includes complex forming gas reacting with the metal element included in the high-k insulating film to form the first organometallic complex and complex stabilizing material gas increasing stability of the first organometallic complex.

7 . The method for manufacturing a semiconductor device according to claim 5 , wherein

the metal element included in the high-k insulating film is a metal element classified in a fifth period in a periodic table and succeeding periods, and

the high-k insulating film includes silicate of the metal element.

8 . The method for manufacturing a semiconductor device according to claim 5 , wherein

the metal element included in the high-k insulating film is a rare earth element, and

the high-k insulating film includes silicate of the rare earth element.

9 . The method for manufacturing a semiconductor device according to claim 6 , wherein

a raw material for the complex forming gas is an organic compound obtained by forming a coordinate bond of at least two or more coordination bond to a transition metal atom, a so-called multidentate ligand molecule.

10 . The method for manufacturing a semiconductor device according to claim 9 , wherein

the raw material for the complex forming gas is diketones including a fluorine atom.

11 . The method for manufacturing a semiconductor device according to claim 6 , wherein

a raw material for the complex stabilizing material gas is an organic compound having two or more elements having an unshared electron pair of an oxygen atom or a nitrogen atom in a molecular skeleton and 5 or more atoms except a hydrogen atom and a fluorine atom.

12 . The method for manufacturing a semiconductor device according to claim 11 , wherein

the raw material for the complex stabilizing material gas is ethers.

13 . The method for manufacturing a semiconductor device according to claim 6 , wherein

the second organometallic complex is an organometallic complex including an iron group element.

14 . The method for manufacturing a semiconductor device according to claim 13 , wherein

the second organometallic complex is an organometallic complex including cobalt.

15 . The method for manufacturing a semiconductor device according to claim 13 , wherein

the second organometallic complex is an organometallic complex not including a fluorine atom.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 25, 2020
From: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
To: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 052225/0894 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 22, 2018
From: YAMAGUCHI, YOSHIHIDE
To: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 045321/0178 →