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In Situ Control of Native Oxide Growth for Semiconductor Processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

Mizuho Morita  and
Tadahiro Ohmi
Mizuho Morita
Affiliation:
Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai 980, Japan
Tadahiro Ohmi
Affiliation:
Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai 980, Japan
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Abstract

In situ control methods of native oxide growth on Si surfaces at room temperature and during the temperature ramp-up are proposed for metal/Si contact formation, lowtemperature Si epitaxy, and very-thin thermal oxide film formation, based on analyses of factors dominating the oxide growth. Low-resistance W/Si contacts are formed by N2 gas sealed processing of HF cleaning right before W chemical vapor deposition(CVD). Highquality epitaxial Si films are grown at a low temperature of 550°C using Si2H6 molecular flow pre-showering to suppress the oxide growth caused by water or oxygen in a CVD reactor. Very thin gate oxide films with high insulating performance are realized by the preoxidation step at 300°C to form one-molecular-layer oxide for passivation and by the subsequent temperature ramp-up step in ultraclean Ar gas to prevent oxide growth and an increase of surface microroughness before the thermal oxidation step.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 259: Symposium B – Chemical Surface Preparation, Passivation and Cleaning for Semiconductor Growth and Processing , 1992 , 19
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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