IP Library Granted Patent US 10,121,650
Granted Patent B1
US 10,121,650 · App. 15/940,618 · Granted Nov 6, 2018

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device

Inventor: Tsukasa Kamakura (Toyama, JP)
Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric, Inc.
H01L21/02104C23C16/455C23C16/45502C23C16/45519C23C16/45521C23C16/45523C23C16/45557H01J37/32816H01J37/32834H01L21/02211H01L21/28282H01L21/28556H01L27/11582H01L21/67739
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Patent No.
US 10,121,650
App. No.
15/940,618
Granted
Nov 6, 2018
Kind
B1
Abstract

A technique capable of forming a film at the bottom of a deep hole having a high aspect ratio. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, including: (a) loading a substrate having a hole into a transfer space via a substrate loading/unloading port; (b) moving the substrate to a processing space; (c) forming a precursor in the hole by simultaneously supplying a first process gas to the substrate in the processing space and an inert gas into the transfer space with the processing space spatially connected to the transfer space and maintaining a difference between a first inner pressure of the processing space and a first inner pressure of the transfer space within a predetermined range; and (d) forming a thin film in the hole after performing (b).

Claims (20)

1. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising:

(a) loading a substrate having a hole into a transfer space via a substrate loading/unloading port;

(b) moving the substrate to a processing space;

(c) forming a precursor in the hole by simultaneously supplying a first process gas to the substrate in the processing space and an inert gas into the transfer space with the processing space spatially connected to the transfer space and maintaining a difference between a first inner pressure of the processing space and a first inner pressure of the transfer space within a predetermined range; and

(d) forming a thin film in the hole after performing (b) by modifying the precursor by supplying a second process gas to the substrate in the processing space and the inert gas into the transfer space with the processing space spatially connected to the transfer space and maintaining a difference between a second inner pressure of the processing space and a second inner pressure of the transfer space within a predetermined range, wherein the second inner pressure of the processing space is higher than the first inner pressure of the processing space.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first inner pressure of the processing space is lower than a pressure whereat a decomposed first process gas recombines.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the first inner pressure of the transfer space is equal to or higher than the first inner pressure of the processing space.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the second inner pressure of the transfer space is equal to or higher than the second inner pressure of the processing space.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the first process gas is easily decomposed.

6. The method of claim 3 , wherein the first process gas is easily decomposed.

7. The method of claim 2 , wherein the second inner pressure of the transfer space is equal to or higher than the second inner pressure of the processing space.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the first process gas is easily decomposed.

9. The method of claim 2 , wherein the first process gas is easily decomposed.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first inner pressure of the transfer space is equal to or higher than the first inner pressure of the processing space.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the second inner pressure of the transfer space is equal to or higher than the second inner pressure of the processing space.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the first process gas is easily decomposed.

13. The method of claim 10 , wherein the first process gas is easily decomposed.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second inner pressure of the transfer space is equal to or higher than the second inner pressure of the processing space.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the first process gas is easily decomposed.

16. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first process gas is easily decomposed.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 31, 2018
From: HITACHI KOKUSAI ELECTRIC INC.
To: KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 047875/0251 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 31, 2018
From: HITACHI KOKUSAI ELECTRIC INC.
To: KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 047995/0490 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 30, 2018
From: KAMAKURA, TSUKASA
To: HITACHI KOKUSAI ELECTRIC INC.
Reel/Frame 045400/0166 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2018-020005 · Feb 7, 2018 · national
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