Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Low temperature tungsten film deposition for small critical dimension contacts and interconnects
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Application No.: US14989444Application Date: 2016-01-06
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Publication No.: US09673146B2Publication Date: 2017-06-06
- Inventor: Feng Chen , Raashina Humayun , Michal Danek , Anand Chandrashekar
- Applicant: Novellus Systems, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Fremont
- Assignee: Novellus Systems, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Novellus Systems, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Fremont
- Agency: Weave Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP
- Main IPC: H01L21/44
- IPC: H01L21/44 ; H01L23/535 ; C23C16/02 ; C23C16/04 ; C23C16/14 ; C23C16/455 ; H01L21/285 ; H01L21/768 ; H01L21/67 ; C23C16/52 ; H01L23/532

Abstract:
Provided are methods of void-free tungsten fill of high aspect ratio features. According to various embodiments, the methods involve a reduced temperature chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process to fill the features with tungsten. In certain embodiments, the process temperature is maintained at less than about 350° C. during the chemical vapor deposition to fill the feature. The reduced-temperature CVD tungsten fill provides improved tungsten fill in high aspect ratio features, provides improved barriers to fluorine migration into underlying layers, while achieving similar thin film resistivity as standard CVD fill. Also provided are methods of depositing thin tungsten films having low-resistivity. According to various embodiments, the methods involve performing a reduced temperature low resistivity treatment on a deposited nucleation layer prior to depositing a tungsten bulk layer and/or depositing a bulk layer via a reduced temperature CVD process followed by a high temperature CVD process.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160118345A1 LOW TEMPATURE TUNGSTEN FILM DEPOSITION FOR SMALL CRITICAL DIMENSION CONTACTS AND INTERCONNECTS Public/Granted day:2016-04-28
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