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An apparatus (110) and method for depositing material on a semiconductor wafer with non-planar structures (114). The wafer (114) is positioned in a chamber (111), and reactive gases (132) are introduced into the chamber (111). The gases (132) and wafer (114) are heated, wherein the gas (132) temperature in the process chamber (111) and in the vicinity of the wafer (114) surface is lower than the temperature of the wafer (114) surface. A material is deposited on the wafer (114) surface using chemical vapor deposition. A gas cooler may be utilized to lower the temperature of the reactive gases (132) while the wafer (114) is heated.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a structure and a method for selectively accumulating a germanium spacer on a nitride. SOLUTION: In a method for selectively forming a germanium structure in a semiconductor manufacturing process, a native oxide is removed in a chemical oxide removing (COR) process, then surfaces of heated nitride and oxide are exposed to a germanium-containing gas to selectively form the germanium only on the surface of the nitride, not on the surface of the oxide. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of forming a polycrystalline silicon having hyperfine particle sizes. SOLUTION: The method of forming a polycrystalline silicon having hyperfine particle sizes employs a differential heating of upper and lower surfaces of a substrate of a CVD apparatus, in which the lower surface of the substrate receives considerably more power than the upper surface, preferably more than 75% of the entire power; and in which the substrate is maintained during deposition at a temperature higher than 50°C above 550°C of crystallization temperature of silicon. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide films, especially silicon nitride films, silicon oxide films, silicon oxynitride films, and silicon carbide films, which are formed more easily at a higher deposition rate in comparison with conventional processes. SOLUTION: Adding at least one non-silicon precursor (such as a germanium precursor and a carbon precursor) during formation of a silicon nitride, silicon oxide, silicon oxynitride or silicon carbide film improves the deposition rate, and/or allows properties, such as the stress, of the film to be adjusted. Also, in a doped silicon oxide or doped silicon nitride or any other doped structure, the presence of a dopant can be used for measuring a signal (marking) associated with the dopant as an etch stop, or in other cases, for achieving control during etching. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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An embedded silicon carbon (Si:C) having a substitutional carbon content in excess of one percent in order to effectively increase electron mobility by application of tension to a channel region of an NFET is achieved by overfilling a gap or trench formed by transistor gate structures with Si: C and polishing an etching the Si: C to or below a surface of a raised gate structure in a super-Damascene process, leaving Si:C only in selected regions above the transistor source and drain, even though processes capable of depositing Si: C with sufficiently high substitutional carbon content are inherently non-selective.
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Integrated circuit system With Carbon and Non-Carbon sILICON An integrated circuit system includes a substrate, a carbon-containing silicon region over the substrate, a non-carbon-containing silicon region over the substrate, and a silicon-carbon region, including the non-carbon- containing silicon region and the carbon-containing silicon region.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit system includes a substrate, a carbon-containing silicon region over the substrate, a non-carbon-containing silicon region over the substrate, and a silicon-carbon region, including the non-carbon- containing silicon region and the carbon-containing silicon region.