Among the plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition pecvd. Optimization of plasmaenhanced chemical vapor deposition silicon. What is the proper recipe for depositing sio2 film using pecvd. Development of plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition. Thicknesses and pinholes of sio2, sinx, and asi films prepared by pecvd, no1, graduate student fellow program prepared by swapil paliwal 3242014. The optical, electrical, and material properties of the dielectrics were analyzed using variable angle. Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition of sio2 using. Pecvd of silicon dioxide scholarlycommons university of. Roll to roll pecvd system for transparent high barrier coating h. Structural properties of sio2 films prepared by plasma. Basic pecvd plasma processes sih based berkeley marvell. A comparative study of o2sih4 and n2osih4 mixtures for sio2. Roll to roll pecvd system for transparent high barrier coating. Sioh groups or contaminants from the gases used in pecvd sih4, n2o.
Design of experiment for pecvd sio2 deposition in the green table on the left side click to enlarge temperature335c. Gas flow n2o sih4 ratio high rate process 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 15 25 35 45 55 65 75 85 n2o sih4 ratio deposition rate nmmin oxford instruments. The sibased dielectric films, silicon dioxide sio2 and silicon nitride. Dioxide sio2 using oxford instruments system 100 pecvd. What is the proper recipe for depositing sio2 film using. N2o sih4 plasmas to mention a few points that are of general interest. Compared with pecvd sio2, i think you can deposit the best stoichiometric sio2. So, make sure that the waferasreceived is cleaned with acetone and ipa or methanol using ultrasonicator for each 35 min before use. Compared with pecvd sio2 i think you can deposit the best stoichiometric sio2 without to much sih and sioh groups or contaminants from the gases used in pecvd sih4, n2o. Stress of pecvd sio2 films deposited at 250 c as a function of n2osih4 gas flow ratio. Since the process is carried out at high temperature, some outgas or vaporized species out of a dirty wafer may affect the quality of the deposited film. Sio2 thin films have been prepared by plasmaenhanced chemical vapor deposition from sih4 and n2o precursors by using different values of the n2o sih4 flow ratio. Silicon dioxide films are widely used in silicon based integrated circuits. Sio2 pecvd data for mems, tsv, photonic devices and rf devices.
Plasmaenhanced chemical vapor deposition an overview. Plasmaenhanced chemical vapor deposition of silicon dioxide. Thicknesses and pinholes of sio2, sinx, and asi films. Infrared absorptions for plasmadeposited silicon dioxide.
Plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition pecvd is a widely accepted technique within industry, particularly for thinfilm production. Physical and electrical properties of low temp e100degc sio2 films deposited by electron cyclotron resonance plasmas. Samco anode and cathode pecvd technologies offer highly controllable sio2 pecvd processes. Feature scale simulation of pecvd of sio2 in sih4n2o. In this paper, to simulate the process of pecvd plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition of sio 2, the plasma chemistry and plasma density of sih 4 n 2 o mixture have been studied with an inductive coupled plasma model, and the level set methodology has been used to obtain the feature scale variation during the process. Stress control of sibased pecvd dielectrics plasmatherm. Film thickness variation across a 4 wafer, defined as maxminaverage. Plasmaenhanced cvd from silane and n2o silicon dioxide can be deposited using parallelplate showerhead reactors. The primary reason for its acceptance is its capability to operate at lower temperatures than thermally driven cvd.
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