Abstract: A display device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The display device, comprises a first base substrate, a first barrier layer disposed on the first base substrate, a second base substrate disposed on the first barrier layer, at least one transistor disposed on the second base substrate, and an organic light emitting diode disposed on the at least one transistor, wherein the first barrier layer includes a silicon oxide, and has an adhesion force of 200 gf/inch or more to the second base substrate.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method for forming a silicon-based, carbon-rich, low-k ILD layer with a carbon concentration between about 15 atomic % and about 20 atomic %. For example, the method includes depositing a dielectric layer, over a substrate, with a dielectric material having a dielectric constant below 3.9 and a carbon atomic concentration between about 15% and about 20%; exposing the dielectric layer to a thermal process configured to outgas the dielectric material; etching the dielectric layer to form openings; and filling the openings with a conductive material to form conductive structures.

Abstract: A film deposition method includes maintaining an inside of a chamber to have a predetermined pressure, cooling a stage, on which the object to be processed mounts, to have an ultralow temperature of ?20° C., and mounting the object to be processed on the stage, supplying a gas including a low vapor pressure material gas of a low vapor pressure material into the inside of the chamber, and generating plasma from the supplied gas including the gas of the low vapor pressure material, and causing a precursor generated from the low vapor pressure material by the plasma to be deposited on a recess part of the object to be processed.

Abstract: A method of forming a feature in a stack comprising a dielectric material on a substrate is provided. An etch plasma is generated from an etch gas, exposing the stack to the etch plasma and partially etching the feature in the stack. The stack is primed. A protective film is deposited on sidewalls of the feature by repeating for a plurality of cycles the steps of exposing the stack to a first reactant, allowing the first reactant to adsorb onto the stack, and exposing the stack to a second reactant, wherein the first and second reactants react with one another to form the protective film over the stack. The etching, priming, and depositing a protective film are repeated until the feature is etched to a final depth.

Abstract: A substrate processing method capable of uniformly maintaining damage to a pattern structure under a thin film formed on a substrate includes supplying a source material to a substrate on which a pattern structure that is reactive with a reactant is formed; and supplying the reactant through at least a central gas inlet of a supply unit in a plasma atmosphere, wherein, during the supplying of the reactant, a blocking material different from the reactant is supplied through an additional gas inlet that is spaced apart from the central gas inlet of the supply unit, and a flow of the blocking material at the edge of the substrate is increased, thereby increasing a radical density of the reactant near a center of the substrate.

Abstract: A film deposition method is provided. In the method, an aminosilane gas is adsorbed on a surface of a substrate including a recess pattern. Next, a silicon oxide film is deposited on the surface of the substrate including the recess pattern by oxidizing the aminosilane gas adsorbed on the surface of the substrate using an oxidation gas. Then, the silicon oxide film is modified by supplying a mixed gas containing oxygen, argon and nitrogen to the silicon oxide film while activating the mixed gas by plasma.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided with: implanting charged particles including oxygen into a surface of a SiC wafer; and forming a Schottky electrode that makes Schottky contact with the SiC wafer on the surface after the implantation of the charged particles.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting display device includes a substrate, a display unit on the substrate, and a thin film encapsulation unit configured to encapsulate the display unit, and including a corrugated portion including a first layer and a second layer that are sequentially stacked, wherein the first layer includes a material having a lower modulus of elasticity than the second layer, and wherein a corrugated surface is formed at an upper surface of the first layer and a lower surface of the second layer due to a difference in the moduli of elasticity of the first layer and the second layer.

Abstract: The description relates to an adjustable nozzle capable of pivoting about an axis of the nozzle and translating along the axis of the nozzle. A high density plasma chemical vapor deposition (HDP CVD) chamber houses a plurality of adjustable nozzles. A feedback control system includes a control unit coupled to the adjustable nozzle and the HDP CVD chamber to form a more uniform thickness profile of films deposited on a wafer in the HDP CVD chamber.

Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus for alternately performing a first plasma processing step using first and second processing gases and a second plasma processing step using third and fourth processing gases. The apparatus includes: a processing container that has a dielectric window in a ceiling and removably accommodates a workpiece; an exhaust unit that evacuates the processing container; a processing gas supply unit that supplies the first, second, third, and fourth processing gases into the processing container; a first gas introduction unit including a top plate gas injection port, a dielectric window gas flow path, and a first external gas flow path; a second gas introduction unit including a sidewall gas injection port, a sidewall gas flow path, and a second external gas flow path; an electromagnetic wave supply unit that supplies electromagnetic waves into the plasma generating space; a bypass exhaust path; and an opening/closing valve.

Abstract: Techniques and methods related to forming a wrap-around contact on a semiconductor device, and apparatus, system, and mobile platform incorporating such semiconductor devices.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for forming a semiconductor device. The method includes providing a substrate and forming a dielectric layer on the substrate by a deposition process using reactant gases. The reactant gases include a silicon-source gas and an oxygen-source gas under a radio-frequency (RF) power. The deposition process performed for a total deposition time to form the dielectric layer is divided into a first time length, a second time length and a third time length. The RF power of the deposition process in the first time length is a first power, the first power gradually increases from the first power to a second power in the second time length, the RF power in the third time length is the second power, and the first power is less than the second power.

Abstract: Silicon oxide is deposited with improved step coverage by first exposing a patterned substrate to a silicon-containing precursor and then to an oxygen-containing precursor or vice versa. Plasma excitation is used for both precursors. Exposing the precursors one-at-a-time avoids disproportionate deposition of silicon oxide near the opening of a high aspect ratio gap on a patterned substrate. The plasma-excited precursors exhibit a lower sticking coefficient and/or higher surface diffusion rate in regions already adsorbed and therefore end up depositing silicon oxide deep within the high aspect ratio gap to achieve the improvement in step coverage.

Abstract: Various embodiments provide interconnect structures and fabrication methods. A carbon-containing dielectric layer can be formed on a substrate. A protective layer can be formed on the carbon-containing dielectric layer to prevent carbon loss from the carbon-containing dielectric layer by performing a surface treatment to the carbon-containing dielectric layer using a gas at least containing silicon and hydrogen. A hard mask layer can be formed on the protective layer. A through hole can be formed in the carbon-containing dielectric layer using the hard mask layer as a mask to expose a surface of the substrate for forming a contact plug in the through hole.

Abstract: An impingement injector includes an injector core having a plurality of conduits. The conduits include a first conduit and second conduits disposed circumferentially around the first conduit. The second conduits are at an impinging angle with respect to the first conduit. Replaceable, tunable jets are disposed in corresponding ones of the second conduits.

Abstract: A thin film transistor includes, an insulating substrate, a gate electrode provided on an upper surface of the insulating substrate, a gate insulating film formed so as to cover the gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor layer provided on the gate insulating film, a channel protective layer provided at least on an upper surface of the oxide semiconductor layer, and a source electrode and a drain electrode provided so as to come into contact with the oxide semiconductor layer, wherein the channel protective layer is formed such that the film density of a portion provided so as to come into contact with the oxide semiconductor layer is higher than the film density of a portion distant from the oxide semiconductor layer.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate are provided herein. In some embodiments, an apparatus for processing a substrate includes a process chamber having a substrate support disposed therein to support a processing surface of a substrate at a desired position within the process chamber; a first inlet port to provide a first process gas over the processing surface of the substrate in a first direction; a second inlet port to provide a second process gas over the processing surface of the substrate in a second direction different from the first direction, wherein an azimuthal angle measured between the first direction and the second direction with respect to a central axis of the substrate support is up to about 145 degrees; and an exhaust port disposed opposite the first inlet port to exhaust the first and second process gases from the process chamber.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the deposition of dopant films, such as doped silicon oxide films, by atomic layer deposition processes. In some embodiments, a substrate in a reaction space is contacted with pulses of a silicon precursor and a dopant precursor, such that the silicon precursor and dopant precursor adsorb on the substrate surface. Oxygen plasma is used to convert the adsorbed silicon precursor and dopant precursor to doped silicon oxide.

Abstract: A multi-mode thin film deposition apparatus including a reaction chamber, a carrying seat, a showerhead, an inert gas supplying source, a first gas inflow system and a second gas inflow system is provided. The carrying seat is disposed in the reaction chamber. The showerhead has a gas mixing room and gas holes disposed at a side of the gas mixing room. The gas mixing room is connected to the reaction chamber through the plurality of gas holes which faces the carrying seat. The first gas inflow system is connected to the reaction chamber and supplies a first process gas during a first thin film deposition process mode. The inert gas supplying source is connected to the gas mixing room for supplying an inert gas. The second gas inflow system is connected to the gas mixing room to supply a second process gas during a second thin film deposition process mode.

Abstract: Methods of forming a dielectric layer on a substrate are described, and may include introducing a first precursor into a remote plasma region fluidly coupled with a substrate processing region of a substrate processing chamber A plasma may be formed in the remote plasma region to produce plasma effluents. The plasma effluents may be directed into the substrate processing region. A silicon-containing precursor may be introduced into the substrate processing region, and the silicon-containing precursor may include at least one silicon-silicon bond. The plasma effluents and silicon-containing precursor may be reacted in the processing region to form a silicon-based dielectric layer that is initially flowable when formed on the substrate.

Abstract: Disclosed are apparatus and methods for processing a substrate. The substrate having a feature with a layer thereon is exposed to an inductively coupled plasma which forms a substantially conformal layer.

Abstract: A silicon oxide film is formed, having a specific film thickness on a substrate by alternately repeating: forming a silicon-containing layer on the substrate by supplying a source gas containing silicon, to the substrate housed in a processing chamber and heated to a first temperature; and oxidizing and changing the silicon-containing layer formed on the substrate, to a silicon oxide layer by supplying reactive species containing oxygen to the substrate heated to the first temperature in the processing chamber under a pressure atmosphere of less than atmospheric pressure, the reactive species being generated by causing a reaction between an oxygen-containing gas and a hydrogen-containing gas in a pre-reaction chamber under a pressure atmosphere of less than atmospheric pressure and heated to a second temperature equal to the first temperature or higher than the first temperature.

Abstract: A method for automatically detecting fault conditions and classifying the fault conditions during substrate processing is provided. The method includes collecting processing data by a set of sensors during the substrate processing. The method also includes sending the processing data to a fault detection/classification component. The method further includes performing data manipulation of the processing data by the fault detection/classification component. The method yet also includes executing a comparison between the processing data and a plurality of fault models stored within a fault library. Each fault model of the plurality of fault models represents a set of data characterizing a specific fault condition. Each fault model includes at least a fault signature, a fault boundary, and a set of principal component analysis (PCA) parameters.

Abstract: Methods of forming silicon oxide layers are described. The methods include the steps of concurrently combining both a radical precursor and a radical-oxygen precursor with a carbon-free silicon-containing precursor. One of the radical precursor and the silicon-containing precursor contain nitrogen. The methods result in depositing a silicon-oxygen-and-nitrogen-containing layer on a substrate. The oxygen content of the silicon-oxygen-and-nitrogen-containing layer is then increased to form a silicon oxide layer which may contain very little nitrogen. The radical-oxygen precursor and the radical precursor may be produced in separate plasmas or the same plasma. The increase in oxygen content may be brought about by annealing the layer in the presence of an oxygen-containing atmosphere and the density of the film may be increased further by raising the temperature even higher in an inert environment.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate are provided. In some embodiments, a method of processing a substrate disposed in a process chamber includes performing a process on a substrate disposed in a process chamber having a substrate support ring configured to support the substrate and a reflector plate disposed proximate a back side of the substrate; providing a first gas comprising one of an oxygen containing gas or a nitrogen containing gas to a back side of the substrate via one or more through holes disposed in the reflector plate while performing the process on the substrate; and maintaining the process chamber at a first pressure proximate a top surface of the substrate and at a second pressure proximate the bottom surface of the substrate, wherein the first pressure is greater than the second pressure sufficiently to prevent dislodgement of the substrate from the substrate support ring during processing.

Abstract: A metal contact of a solar cell is formed by electroplating copper using an electroplating seed that is formed on a dielectric layer. The electroplating seed includes an aluminum layer that connects to a diffusion region of the solar cell through a contact hole in the dielectric layer. A nickel layer is formed on the aluminum layer, with the nickel layer-aluminum layer stack forming the electroplating seed. The copper is electroplated in a copper plating bath that has methanesulfonic acid instead of sulfuric acid as the supporting electrolyte.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods of depositing layers of material on multiple semiconductor substrates at multiple processing stations within one or more reaction chambers. The methods may include dosing a first substrate with film precursor at a first processing station and dosing a second substrate with film precursor at a second processing station with precursor flowing from a common source, wherein the timing of said dosing is staggered such that the first substrate is dosed during a first dosing phase during which the second substrate is not substantially dosed, and the second substrate is dosed during a second dosing phase during which the first substrate is not substantially dosed. Also disclosed herein are apparatuses having a plurality of processing stations contained within one or more reaction chambers and a controller with machine-readable instructions for staggering the dosing of first and second substrates at first and second processing stations.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the deposition of dopant films, such as doped silicon oxide films, by atomic layer deposition processes. In some embodiments, a substrate in a reaction space is contacted with pulses of a silicon precursor and a dopant precursor, such that the silicon precursor and dopant precursor adsorb on the substrate surface. Oxygen plasma is used to convert the adsorbed silicon precursor and dopant precursor to doped silicon oxide.

Abstract: A method of forming a silicon-containing dielectric material. The method includes forming a plasma comprising nitrogen radicals, absorbing the nitrogen radicals onto a substrate, and exposing the substrate to a silicon-containing precursor in a non-plasma environment to form monolayers of a silicon-containing dielectric material on the substrate. Additional methods are also described, as are semiconductor device structures including the silicon-containing dielectric material and methods of forming the semiconductor device structures.

Abstract: Methods for processing a substrate are described herein. Methods can include positioning a substrate in a processing chamber, maintaining the processing chamber at a temperature below 400° C., flowing a reactant gas comprising either a silicon hydride or a silicon halide and an oxidizing precursor into the process chamber, applying a microwave power to create a microwave plasma from the reactant gas, and depositing a silicon oxide layer on at least a portion of the exposed surface of a substrate.

Abstract: A method of forming a metal oxide hardmask on a template includes: providing a template constituted by a photoresist or amorphous carbon formed on a substrate; and depositing by atomic layer deposition (ALD) a metal oxide hardmask on the template constituted by a material having a formula SixM(1-x)Oy wherein M represents at least one metal element, x is less than one including zero, and y is approximately two or a stoichiometrically-determined number.

Abstract: Methods for depositing flowable dielectric films are provided. In some embodiments, the methods involve introducing a silicon-containing precursor to a deposition chamber wherein the precursor is characterized by having a partial pressure:vapor pressure ratio between 0.01 and 1. In some embodiments, the methods involve depositing a high density plasma dielectric film on a flowable dielectric film. The high density plasma dielectric film may fill a gap on a substrate. Also provided are apparatuses for performing the methods.

Abstract: Provided herein are integration-compatible dielectric films and methods of depositing and modifying them. According to various embodiments, the methods can include deposition of flowable dielectric films targeting specific film properties and/or modification of those properties with an integration-compatible treatment process. In certain embodiments, methods of depositing and modifying flowable dielectric films having tunable wet etch rates and other properties are provided. Wet etch rates can be tuned during integration through am integration-compatible treatment process. Examples of treatment processes include plasma exposure and ultraviolet radiation exposure.

Abstract: Provided is a method of depositing a cyclic thin film that can provide excellent film properties and step coverage. The method comprises the steps of forming a silicon thin film by repeating a silicon deposition step for depositing silicon on a substrate by injecting a silicon precursor into a chamber into which the substrate is loaded and a first purge step for removing a non-reacted silicon precursor and a reacted byproduct from the chamber; and forming the insulating film including silicon from the silicon thin film by forming a plasma atmosphere into the chamber.

Abstract: Embodiments provided herein describe methods and systems for processing substrates. A plasma including radical species and charged species is generated. The charged species of the plasma are collected. A substrate is exposed to the radical species of the plasma. A layer is formed on the substrate after exposing the substrate to the radical species.

Abstract: Methods of this invention relate to filling gaps on substrates with a solid dielectric material by forming a flowable film in the gap. The flowable film provides consistent, void-free gap fill. The film is then converted to a solid dielectric material. In this manner gaps on the substrate are filled with a solid dielectric material. According to various embodiments, the methods involve reacting a dielectric precursor with an oxidant to form the dielectric material. In certain embodiments, the dielectric precursor condenses and subsequently reacts with the oxidant to form dielectric material. In certain embodiments, vapor phase reactants react to form a condensed flowable film.

Abstract: Oxidation methods and resulting structures including providing an oxide layer on a substrate and then reoxidizing the oxide layer by vertical ion bombardment of the oxide layer in an atmosphere containing at least one oxidant. The oxide layer may be provided over diffusion regions, such as source and drain regions, in a substrate. The oxide layer may overlie the substrate and is proximate a gate structure on the substrate. The at least one oxidant may be oxygen, water, ozone, or hydrogen peroxide, or a mixture thereof. These oxidation methods provide a low-temperature oxidation process, less oxidation of the sidewalls of conductive layers in the gate structure, and less current leakage to the substrate from the gate structure.

Abstract: A method of forming a porous insulation film uses an organic silica material gas having a 3-membered SiO cyclic structure and a 4-membered SiO cyclic structure, or an organic silica material gas having a 3-membered SiO cyclic structure and a straight-chain organic silica structure, and uses a plasma reaction in the filming process. A porous interlevel dielectric film having a higher strength and a higher adhesive property can be obtained.

Abstract: One method includes forming first sidewall spacers adjacent opposite sides of a sacrificial gate structure and a gate cap layer, removing the gate cap layer and a portion of the first sidewall spacers to define reduced-height first sidewall spacers, forming second sidewall spacers, removing the sacrificial gate structure to thereby define a gate cavity, whereby a portion of the gate cavity is laterally defined by the second sidewall spacers, and forming a replacement gate structure in the gate cavity, wherein at least a first portion of the replacement gate structure is positioned between the second sidewall spacers. A device includes a gate structure positioned above the substrate between first and second spaced-apart portions of a layer of insulating material and a plurality of first sidewall spacers, each of which are positioned between the gate structure and on one of the first and second portions of the layer of insulating material.

Abstract: A semiconductor device manufacture method has the steps of: (a) coating a low dielectric constant low-level insulating film above a semiconductor substrate formed with a plurality of semiconductor elements; (b) processing the low-level insulating film to increase a mechanical strength of the low-level insulating film; (c) coating a low dielectric constant high-level insulating film above the low-level insulating film; and (d) forming a buried wiring including a wiring pattern in the high-level insulating film and a via conductor in the low-level insulating film. The low-level insulating film and high-level insulating film are made from the same material. The process of increasing the mechanical strength includes an ultraviolet ray irradiation process or a hydrogen plasma applying process.

Abstract: A deposition for producing a porous organosilica glass film comprising: introducing into a vacuum chamber gaseous reagents including one precursor of an organosilane or an organosiloxane, and a porogen distinct from the precursor, wherein the porogen is aromatic in nature; applying energy to the gaseous reagents in the chamber to induce reaction of the gaseous reagents to deposit a film, containing the porogen; and removing substantially all of the organic material by UV radiation to provide the porous film with pores and a dielectric constant less than 2.6.

Abstract: Disclosed is a starting material for use in forming a silicon oxide film on a substrate by the CVD method, comprising a siloxane compound having a carbonyl group, wherein the starting material is decomposed by applying energy, thereby releasing CO and producing a product having no dangling bond in the chemical structure, and the product contributes to the formation of the film. As a result, a silicon oxide film having a favorable step coverage is formed.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are various methods of forming metal-containing insulating material regions on a metal layer of a gate structure of a semiconductor device. In one example, the method includes forming a gate structure of a transistor, the gate structure comprising at least a first metal layer, and forming a first metal-containing insulating material region in the first metal layer by performing a gas cluster ion beam process using to implant gas molecules into the first metal layer.

Abstract: A device for producing a microwave plasma, and a device and a method for treating semiconductor substrates with a microwave plasma, the microwave plasma device comprising at least one electrode (21, 22, 23), an electrode (21, 22, 23) comprising a coaxial inner conductor (21) made of electrically conductive material and a coaxial outer conductor (22) made of electrically conductive material and surrounding the inner conductor at least partially and being disposed at a distance thereto, and a plasma ignition device (23) that is connected to the coaxial inner conductor (21), characterized in that the coaxial outer conductor (22) comprises at least one first partial region (31) in which it completely surrounds the coaxial inner conductor (21) along the longitudinal axis thereof and comprises at least one further partial region (32) in which it surrounds the coaxial inner conductor (21) partially such that microwave radiation generated by the microwave generator (20) can exit in the at least one further partial re

Abstract: Methods of forming a semiconductor device are provided. The methods include, for example, forming a low-k dielectric having a continuous planar surface, and, after forming the low-k dielectric, subjecting the continuous planar surface of the low-k dielectric to an ethylene plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) treatment.

Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provides a solid-state image pickup element, including: a semiconductor layer having a photodiode, photoelectric conversion being carried out in the photodiode; a silicon oxide film formed on the semiconductor layer in a region having at least the photodiode by using plasma; and a film formed on the silicon oxide film and having negative fixed charges.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods and apparatuses for improving adhesion of dielectric and conductive layers on a substrate to the underlying layer. The methods involve passing a process gas through a plasma generator downstream of the substrate to create reactive species. The underlying layer is then exposed to reactive species that interact with the film surface without undesirable sputtering. The gas is selected such that the interaction of the reactive species with the underlying layer modifies the surface of the layer in a manner that improves adhesion to the subsequently formed overlying layer. During exposure to the reactive species, the substrate and/or process gas may be exposed to ultraviolet radiation to enhance surface modification. In certain embodiments, a single UV cure tool is used to cure the underlying film and improve adhesion.

Abstract: A method for processing a wafer with a wafer bevel that surrounds a central region is provided. The wafer is placed in a bevel plasma processing chamber. A protective layer is deposited on the wafer bevel without depositing the protective layer over the central region. The wafer is removed from the bevel plasma processing chamber. The wafer is further processed.

Abstract: Methods of forming silicon oxide layers are described. The methods include mixing a carbon-free silicon-containing precursor with a radical-nitrogen precursor, and depositing a silicon-and-nitrogen-containing layer on a substrate. The radical-nitrogen precursor is formed in a plasma by flowing a hydrogen-and-nitrogen-containing precursor into the plasma. Prior to depositing the silicon-and-nitrogen-containing layer, a silicon oxide liner layer is formed to improve adhesion, smoothness and flowability of the silicon-and-nitrogen-containing layer. The silicon-and-nitrogen-containing layer may be converted to a silicon-and-oxygen-containing layer by curing and annealing the film. Methods also include forming a silicon oxide liner layer before applying a spin-on silicon-containing material.

Abstract: Described are methods of making silicon nitride (SiN) materials and other silicon-containing films, including carbon-containing and/or oxygen-containing films such as SiCN (also referred to as SiNC), SiON and SiONC films, on substrates. According to various embodiments, the methods involve electromagnetic radiation-assisted activation of one or more reactants. In certain embodiments, for example, the methods involve ultraviolet (UV) activation of vapor phase amine coreactants. The methods can be used to deposit silicon-containing films, including SiN and SiCN films, at temperatures below about 400° C.