Film depositon on a semiconductor wafer
Heating a reaction chamber or other apparatus in the absence of product wafers to a "curing" temperature above a deposition temperature between the deposition of a film on a first set of semiconductor product wafers and the deposition of a film on a second set of semiconductor product wafe...
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Format | Patent |
Language | English |
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27.05.2004
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Summary: | Heating a reaction chamber or other apparatus in the absence of product wafers to a "curing" temperature above a deposition temperature between the deposition of a film on a first set of semiconductor product wafers and the deposition of a film on a second set of semiconductor product wafers. In some embodiments, a boat with filler wafers is in the reaction chamber when the reaction chamber is heated to the curing temperature. In some examples, the films are deposited by a low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) process. With some processes, if the deposition of a film on product wafers is at a temperature below a certain temperature, the film deposited with the product wafer on a boat, filler wafers, and/or other structures in the reaction chamber can cause contamination of product wafers subsequently deposited with a film in the presence of the boat and filler wafers. Contamination from these previously deposited films is inhibited by applying a curing temperature to the deposited fillers in the absence of the product wafers before a film is deposited on the next set of product wafers. |
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