Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080268644 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS - There are provided the steps of loading a substrate into a reaction vessel; forming a film on the substrate while supplying a film forming gas into the reaction vessel; unloading the substrate after film formation from the reaction vessel; supplying a cleaning gas into the reaction vessel while lowering a temperature in the reaction vessel and removing a deposit deposited on at least an inner wall of the reaction vessel in the film forming step. | 10-30-2008 |
20090114146 | Method for Manufacturing Semiconductor Device and Substrate Processing Apparatus - To provide a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device and a substrate processing apparatus which contribute to forming high-density nuclei. The method for manufacturing a semiconductor device according to the invention includes the steps of: carrying a wafer | 05-07-2009 |
20090117714 | Method of producing semiconductor device, and substrate processing apparatus - Disclosed is a method of producing a semiconductor device, comprising the steps of carrying a substrate with an insulating film formed on its surface into a processing chamber; processing the substrate to form silicon grains on the insulating film formed on the surface of the substrate by introducing at least a silicon-base gas into the processing chamber; and carrying the processed substrate out of the processing chamber, wherein in the processing step, a silicon-base gas and a dopant gas are introduced into the processing chamber with the temperature and the pressure inside the processing chamber being so controlled that, when the silicon-base gas is introduced singly, the silicon-base gas is not thermally decomposed under the controlled condition, in such a manner that the flow rate of the dopant gas could be equal to or more than the flow rate of the silicon-base gas. | 05-07-2009 |
20090305517 | Method of Manufacturing Semiconductor Device and Substrate Processing Apparatus - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device has: carrying a substrate into a process chamber; depositing a thin film on the substrate by supplying inside the process chamber a first film deposition gas including at least one element among plural elements forming a thin film to be deposited and capable of accumulating a film solely and a second film deposition gas including at least another element among the plural elements and incapable of accumulating a film solely; carrying the substrate on which is deposited the thin film out from inside the process chamber; and removing a first sediment adhering to an interior of the process chamber and a second sediment adhering to an interior of the supply portion and having a chemical composition different from a chemical composition of the first sediment by supplying cleaning gases inside the process chamber and inside a supply portion that supplies the first film deposition gas while changing at least one of a supply flow rate, a concentration, and a type between a cleaning gas to be supplied inside the process chamber and a cleaning gas to be supplied inside the supply portion. | 12-10-2009 |
20100055927 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A silicon nitride film including stoichiometrically excessive silicon with respect to nitrogen is formed. The silicon nitride film may be formed by supplying dichlorosilane to a substrate under a condition where CVD (chemical vapor deposition) reaction is caused to form a silicon film including several or less atomic layers on the substrate, supplying ammonia to the substrate in a non-plasma atmosphere to thermally nitride the silicon film under a condition where the nitriding reaction of the silicon film by the ammonia is not saturated, and alternately repeating the supplying of dichlorosilane and the supplying of ammonia. | 03-04-2010 |
20100105192 | Method of Manufacturing Semiconductor Device and Substrate Processing Apparatus - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: forming an oxide film having a predetermined film thickness on a substrate by repeating a process of forming a predetermined element-containing layer on the substrate by supplying source gas containing a predetermined element into a process vessel accommodating the substrate, and a process of changing the predetermined element-containing layer to an oxide layer by supplying oxygen-containing gas and hydrogen-containing gas into the process vessel that is set below atmospheric pressure, wherein the oxygen-containing gas is oxygen gas or ozone gas, the hydrogen-containing gas is hydrogen gas or deuterium gas, and the temperature of the substrate is in a range from 400° C. or more to 700° C. or less in the process of forming the oxide film. | 04-29-2010 |
20100130024 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS - Provided are a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device and a substrate processing apparatus. The method includes: forming a first layer including a first element on a substrate by supplying a gas containing the first element; forming a second layer including first and second elements by supplying a gas containing the second element to modify the first layer; and forming a thin film having a predetermined thickness by setting the forming of the first layer and the forming of the second layer to one cycle and repeating the cycle at least once. Pressure, or pressure and a gas supply time in one process of the forming of the first layer and the forming of the second layer are controlled to be higher or longer, or lower or shorter than pressure, or pressure and a time in the one process when the thin film having a stoichiometric composition is formed. | 05-27-2010 |
20110076857 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS - Provided is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method includes: loading a substrate into a process vessel; performing a process to form an oxide, nitride, or oxynitride film on the substrate by alternately repeating: (a) forming a layer containing a predetermined element on the substrate by supplying and exhausting first and second source gases containing the element into and from the process vessel; and (b) changing the layer containing the element into an oxide, nitride, or oxynitride layer by supplying and exhausting reaction gas different from the first and second source gases into and from the process vessel; and unloading the substrate from the process vessel. The first source gas is more reactive than the second source gas, and an amount of the first source gas supplied into the process vessel is set to be less than that of the second source gas supplied into the process vessel. | 03-31-2011 |
20120045905 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, METHOD OF PROCESSING SUBSTRATE AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS - Provided is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method includes: loading a substrate into a process vessel; performing a process to form an film on the substrate by alternately repeating: (a) forming a layer containing an element on the substrate by supplying at least two types of source gases into the process vessel, each of the at least two types of source gases containing the element, and (b) changing the layer containing the element by supplying reaction gas into the process vessel, the reaction gas being different from the at least two types of source gases; and unloading the processed substrate from the process vessel. | 02-23-2012 |
20130052836 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, METHOD FOR PROCESSING SUBSTRATE AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS - There is provided a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, including forming an insulating film having a prescribed composition and a prescribed film thickness on a substrate by alternately performing the following steps prescribed number of times: supplying one of the sources of a chlorosilane-based source and an aminosilane-based source to a substrate in a processing chamber, and thereafter supplying the other source, to form a first layer containing silicon, nitrogen, and carbon on the substrate; and supplying a reactive gas different from each of the sources, to the substrate in the processing chamber, to modify the first layer and form a second layer. | 02-28-2013 |
20130273748 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided, including: forming an oxynitride film having a specific film thickness on a substrate by performing multiple numbers of times a cycle of: forming a specific element-containing layer on the substrate by supplying a source gas containing a specific element into a processing vessel in which the substrate is housed; changing the specific element-containing layer to a nitride layer by supplying a nitrogen-containing gas into the processing vessel; and changing the nitride layer to an oxynitride layer by supplying an oxygen-containing gas and an inert gas into the processing vessel, with this sequence as one cycle, wherein a composition ratio of the oxynitride film having the specific film thickness is controlled by controlling a partial pressure of the oxygen-containing gas in the processing vessel, in changing the nitride layer to the oxynitride layer. | 10-17-2013 |
20130337660 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, METHOD OF PROCESSING SUBSTRATE AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS - Provided: forming a specific element-containing layer by supplying a source gas to the substrate heated in a processing vessel, under a condition that a thermal decomposition reaction of the source gas is caused; changing the specific element-containing layer to a nitride layer by supplying a nitrogen-containing gas to the substrate; and changing the nitride layer to an oxynitride layer by supplying an oxygen-containing gas to the substrate, the source gas is sprayed in parallel to a surface of the substrate more strongly than a case of spraying the inert gas in parallel to the surface of the substrate in purging the inside of the processing vessel, by supplying an inert gas or a hydrogen-containing gas through the nozzle. | 12-19-2013 |