1. Effect of Bias Frequency on Bottom-Up SiO2Gap-Filling Using Plasma-Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition
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Shin, Ye Ji, Kim, Ho Gon, Choi, Seung Yup, Kim, Seo Min, Kang, Ji Eun, Han, Hye Won, Kim, Ji Min, Kim, Geun Hwi, and Yeom, Geun Young
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High-aspect-ratio patterns are required for next-generation three-dimensional (3D) semiconductor devices. However, it is challenging to eliminate voids and seams during gap-filling of these high-aspect-ratio patterns, such as deep trenches, especially for nanoscale high-aspect-ratio patterns. In this study, a SiO2plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition process incorporated with ion collision using bias power to the substrate was used for bottom-up trench gap-filling. The effect of bias power frequency on SiO2trench gap-filling was then investigated. Results showed that changes in bias power frequency did not significantly change the process rate, such as SiO2growth per cycle. At relatively low bias power frequencies, high-energy ions formed an overhang at the entrance of the high-aspect-ratio trench pattern through sputter etching and redeposition, blocking the pattern entrance. However, at relatively high-frequency bias power, overhang formation due to sputtering did not occur. In the trench interior, due to a scattering effect of ions, deposition was thicker at the bottom of the trench than that at the top, achieving bottom-up gap-filling and void-free gap-filling.
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- 2024
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