Abstract
Abstract
The internal energy of metastable oxygen atoms in highly Ar diluted oxygen plasma was utilized in the initial stage of the atomic layer deposition of HfO2 on SiO2/Si(100) at low temperature of 150 °C. The highly Ar dilute oxygen plasma enhanced the oxidation of the incomplete chemisorption state of the precursor at low temperature, successfully formed Hf silicate interface, and decreased the impurity nitrogen atoms in the HfO2 film compared to the pure oxygen plasma ALD. Residual nitrogen atoms in the film were found to cause excessive precursor adsorption. The results of plasma emission spectroscopy and ion saturation current measurements show that the highly Ar-diluted O2 plasma can increase the O radical formation rate for ion fluxes at pressures above 100 Pa. The relatively high metastable oxygen atom irradiation is thought to be responsible for the removal of HfN bonds and enable ALD on low temperature substrates. Atomic force microscopy showed that the root mean square roughness in the high Ar dilution sample was 0.093 nm, indicating high flatness.
Funder
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy
Cited by
2 articles.
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