WO2001027347A1 - Method of depositing transition metal nitride thin films - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to metal nitride thin films.
- the invention concerns a method of growing tungsten nitride thin films by Atomic Layer Deposition (referred to as ALD hereinafter).
- ALD Atomic Layer Deposition
- Integrated circuits contain interconnects which are usually made of aluminium or copper. Especially copper is prone to diffusion to the surrounding materials. Diffusion affects the electrical properties of the circuits and active components may malfunction.
- the diffusion of metals from interconnects into active parts of the device is prevented with an electrically conductive diffusion barrier layer.
- amorphous transition metal nitrides such as TiN, TaN and WN. The nitrides can be non-stoichiometric because nitrogen is located in interstitial position of the lattice.
- the source materials are typically fed to reaction space together, and they react with each other when brought into contact with the substrate. It is also possible to feed one source material containing all desired reactant species to a CVD reactor, and heat it almost to a point where it decomposes thermally. When the heated gas contacts the substrate surface, a cracking reaction occurs and a film is grown. As is apparent from the above discussion, in CVD the concentration of the different source materials in the reaction space determines the growth of the film.
- Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) and, originally, Atomic Layer Epitaxy (ALE) is an advanced variation of CVD.
- the method name was changed from ALE into ALD to avoid possible confusion when discussing about polycrystalline and amorphous thin films.
- the ALD method is based on sequential self-saturated surface reactions. The method is described in detail in US Patents Nos. 4,058,430 and 5,711,811.
- the reactor design benefits from the usage of inert carrier and purging gases which makes the system fast.
- the separation of source chemicals from each other by inert gases prevents gas-phase reactions between gaseous reactants and enables self-saturated surface reactions leading to film growth which requires neither strict temperature control of the substrates nor precise dosage control of source chemicals.
- Surplus chemicals and reaction byproducts are always removed from the reaction chamber before the next reactive chemical pulse is introduced into the chamber.
- Undesired gaseous molecules are effectively expelled from the reaction chamber by keeping the gas flow speeds high with the help of an inert purging gas.
- the purging gas pushes the extra molecules towards the vacuum pump used for maintaining a suitable pressure in the reaction chamber.
- ALD provides an excellent and automatic self- control for the film growth.
- ALD has recently been used for depositing single layers of titanium nitride TiN (H. Jeon, J.W. Lee, J. H. Koo, Y. S. Kim, Y. D. Kim, D. S. Kim, "A study on the Characteristics of
- Hiltunen et al. NbN, TaN, Ta 3 N 5 , MoN and Mo 2 N can be grown by ALD using metal halogenides as source chemicals (L. Hiltunen, M. Leskela, M. Makela, L.
- Niinist ⁇ E. Nykanen
- P. Soininen "Nitrides of Titanium, Niobium, Tantalum and
- J. W. Klaus has disclosed a process for growing tungsten nitride films using an ALD method (J.W. Klaus, "Atomic Layer Deposition of Tungsten and Tungsten Nitride Using Sequential Surface Reactions", AVS 46 th International Symposium, abstract TF-TuM6, http://www.vacuum.org/symposium/seattle/technical.html. to be presented October 26, 1999 in Seattle, USA).
- tungsten nitride W2N is grown from WF6 and NH3.
- tungsten compounds have been reduced by using hydrogen (H2) US Patent No. 5,342,652 and EP-A2-899 779), silanes, such as S1H4 (US Patent No. 5,691,235) and chlorosilanes, such as S1HCI3 (US Patent No. 5,723,384).
- H2 hydrogen
- S1H4 US Patent No. 5,691,235
- S1HCI3 US Patent No. 5,723,384
- Silanes may also react with WF , thus forming tungsten suicides, such as WSi2- Hydrogen can reduce a tungsten compound into tungsten metal which has too low vapor pressure for being transported in gas phase onto substrates.
- tungsten suicides such as WSi2- Hydrogen
- Traditional CVD processes may leave significant amounts of impurities in thin films, especially at low deposition temperatures.
- the invention is based on the surprising finding that by feeding into a reactor chamber, which contains a substrate, a suitable transition metal compound and, a reducing boron compound pulse and a nitrogen compound, a metal nitride film with low resistivity can be grown.
- a reactor chamber which contains a substrate, a suitable transition metal compound and, a reducing boron compound pulse and a nitrogen compound, a metal nitride film with low resistivity can be grown.
- the reaction between the gaseous boron compound and the metal species reduces the metal compound and gives rise to gaseous reaction byproducts, which easily can be removed from the reaction space.
- the metal nitride thin films are grown by an ALD type process. This is carried out by sequentially feeding into a reactor chamber, which contains a substrate, alternate pulses of a suitable transition metal compound, a reducing boron compound pulse and a nitrogen compound, said boron compound and said nitrogen compound being fed after the metal compound.
- a metal nitride film with low resistivity can be grown in accordance with the principles of ALD method.
- the reaction between the gaseous boron compound and the metal species bound to the surface reduces the metal compound and gives rise to gaseous reaction byproducts, which easily can be removed from the reaction space.
- a diffusion barrier can be grown in an integrated circuit by depositing, during the manufacture of the integrated circuit, a metal nitride thin film on a dielectric surface or a metal surface present on the silicon wafer blank.
- the present method is characterized by what is stated in the characterizing part of claim 1.
- the process for preparing diffusion barriers is characterized by what is stated in the characterizing part of claim 20.
- Metal nitride thin films in particular tungsten nitride thin films, can be grown at low temperatures.
- the boron compounds used as source materials are easy to handle and vaporise.
- the boron compounds formed as byproducts of the reaction between the metal species and the reducing boron compound are essentially gaseous and they exit the reactor easily when purging with an inert gas.
- the boron residues in the film are on a very low level, typically below 5 wt-%, preferably 1 wt-% or less and in particular 0.5 wt- % or less.
- the resistivity of the film is low.
- the growing rate of the film is acceptable. Also the reaction times are short, and in all it can be said that films can be grown very effectively by means of the present process.
- the film grown with the present process exhibits good thin films properties.
- the metal nitride films obtained by an ALD type process have an excellent conformality even on uneven surfaces and on trenches and vias.
- the method also provides an excellent and automatic self-control for the film growth.
- the metal nitride thin films grown by the present invention can be used, for example, as ion diffusion barrier layers in integrated circuits. Tungsten nitride stops effectively oxygen and increases the stability of metal oxide capacitors. Transition metal nitrides and especially tungsten nitride is also suitable as an adhesion layer for a metal, as a thin film resistor, for stopping the migration of tin through via holes and improving the high- temperature processing of integrated circuits.
- Figure 1 presents a block diagram of a pulsing sequence according to a preferred embodiment of the invention.
- a "chemical gaseous deposition process” designates a deposition process in which the reactants are fed to a reaction space in vapor phase. Examples of such processes include CVD and ALD.
- an "ALD type process” designates a process in which deposition of vaporized material onto a surface is based on sequential self-saturating surface reactions.
- the principle of ALD process is disclosed, e.g., in US 4 058 430.
- Reaction space is used to designate a reactor or reaction chamber in which the conditions can be adjusted so that the deposition by ALD is possible.
- Thin film is used to designate a film which is grown from elements or compounds that are transported as separate ions, atoms or molecules via vacuum, gaseous phase or liquid phase from the source to the substrate.
- the thickness of the film depends on the application and it varies in a wide range, e.g., from one molecular layer to 800 nm, even up to 1000 nm.
- metal nitride thin films are prepared by ALD type process.
- a film is grown on a substrate placed in a reaction chamber at elevated temperatures.
- the principles of CVD are well known to those skilled in the art.
- the metal source material, the nitrogen source material and the reducing boron compound are typically fed to the reaction space essentially simultaneously, although the duration of the pulsing of the different species may vary. It is also possible to feed a source material comprising both the nitrogen and metal to the reaction space together with the reducing boron compound.
- metal nitride thin films are prepared by the ALD process.
- a substrate placed in a reaction chamber is subjected to sequential, alternately repeated surface reactions of at least two vapor-phase reactants for the purpose of growing a thin film thereon.
- Metal compounds used as source materials are reduced by boron compounds on a substrate maintained at an elevated temperature.
- the boron compounds are not incorporated into the film.
- the reduced metal species react on the surface with gaseous or volatile nitrogen source material.
- the conditions in the reaction space are adjusted so that no gas-phase reactions, i.e., reactions between gaseous reactants, occur, only surface reactions, i.e., reactions between species adsorbed on the surface of the substrate and a gaseous reactant.
- the molecules of the reducing boron compound react with the deposited metal source compound layer on the surface, and the nitrogen source material reacts with the reduced metal compound on the surface.
- the vapor-phase pulses of the metal source material and the reducing agent are alternately and sequentially fed to the reaction space and contacted with the surface of the substrate fitted into the reaction space.
- the "surface" of the substrate comprises initially the surface of the actual substrate material which optionally has been pretreated in advance, e.g., by contacting it with a chemical for modifying the surface properties thereof.
- the previous metal nitride layer forms the surface for the following metal nitride layer.
- the reagents are preferably fed into the reactor with the aid of an inert carrier gas, such as nitrogen.
- the metal source material pulse, the reducing boron compound pulse and the nitrogen source material pulse are separated from each other by an inert gas pulse, also referred to as gas purge in order to purge the reaction space from the unreacted residues of the previous chemical.
- the inert gas purge typically comprises an inactive gas, such as nitrogen, or a noble gas, such as argon.
- one pulsing sequence (also referred to as a "cycle”) preferably consists essentially of
- the purging time is selected to be long enough to prevent gas phase reactions and to prevent transition metal nitride thin film growth rates higher than one lattice constant of said nitride per cycle.
- the deposition can be carried out at normal pressure, but it is preferred to operate the method at reduced pressure.
- the pressure in the reactor is typically 0.01 - 20 mbar, preferably 0.1 - 5 mbar.
- the substrate temperature has to be low enough to keep the bonds between thin film atoms intact and to prevent thermal decomposition of the gaseous reactants.
- the substrate temperature has to be high enough to keep the source materials in gaseous phase, i.e., condensation of the gaseous reactants must be avoided. Further, the temperature must be sufficiently high to provide the activation energy for the surface reaction.
- the temperature of the substrate is typically 200 - 700 °C, preferably 250 - 500 °C.
- the source temperature is preferably set below the substrate temperature. This is based on the fact that if the partial pressure of the source chemical vapor exceeds the condensation limit at the substrate temperature, controlled layer-by-layer growth of the film is lost.
- the amount of time available for the self-saturated reactions is limited mostly by the economical factors such as required throughput of the product from the reactor. Very thin films are made by relatively few pulsing cycles and in some cases this enables an increase of the source chemical pulse times and, thus, utilization of the source chemicals with a lower vapor pressure than normally.
- the substrate can be of various types. Examples include silicon, silica, coated silicon, copper metal, and various nitrides, such as metal nitrides. Conventionally, the preceding thin film layer deposited will form the substrate surface for the next thin film.
- the present method provides for growing of conformal layers in geometrically challenging applications.
- dielectric e.g. silica or nitride
- metal e.g. copper
- the metal source material can attach on a nitride surface more easily if there are certain active groups on the surface.
- WF 6 tungsten hexafluoride
- Silicon wafers have a native oxide on top.
- the silica (Si ⁇ 2) layer may be just a few molecular layers thick.
- the uncovered silicon is prone to further, undesired, reactions.
- the metal source materials most typically used are volatile or gaseous compounds of transition metals, i.e., elements of groups 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and/or 12 (according to the system recommended by IUPAC) in the periodic table of elements.
- the film consists essentially of W, Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr and or Mo nitride(s) and thus gaseous or volatile compounds of these are preferably used in the method of the present invention.
- the metal source material (as well as the reducing boron compound and the nitrogen source material) has to be chosen so that the requirements for sufficient vapor pressure, the above-discussed criteria of sufficient thermal stability at substrate temperature and sufficient reactivity of the compounds are fulfilled.
- Sufficient vapor pressure means that there must be enough source chemical molecules in the gas phase near the substrate surface to enable fast enough self-saturated reactions at the surface.
- sufficient thermal stability means that the source chemical itself must not form growth-disturbing condensable phases on the substrates or leave harmful levels of impurities on the substrate surface through thermal decomposition.
- one aim is to avoid non-controlled condensation of molecules on substrates.
- suitable metal source materials can be found among halides, preferably fluorides, chlorides, bromides or iodides, or metal organic compounds, preferably alkylaminos, cyclopentadienyls, dithiocarbamates or betadiketonates of desired metal(s).
- tungsten nitride (W x N y , refe ⁇ ed to as WN hereinafter) is grown.
- tungsten source chemical is a tungsten compound selected according to the above criteria.
- the tungsten source material is selected from the group comprising
- a halide such as WF X , WCly, WBr or WI n wherein x, y, m and n are integers from 1 to 6, in particular WF 6 ;
- cyclopentadienyl such as bis(cyclopentadienyl)tungsten dihydride, bis(cyclopentadienyl)tungsten dichloride or bis(cyclopentadienyl)ditungsten hexacarbonyl; and
- transition metal nitrides are mixed so that in the growing process two or more different metal source materials are used.
- tungsten nitride can be mixed with TiN.
- the metal reactant will react with the substrate surface forming a (covalent) bond to the surface bonding groups.
- the adsorbed metal species will contain a residue of the reactant compound, such as halogen or hydrocarbon. According to the present invention, this residue reacts with the gaseous boron compound, which reduces the metal compound on the surface.
- the reducing strengths of the boron compounds vary. Thus, some boron compounds may reduce the metal compound to elemental metal, and others to a certain oxidation state. It is important that only those metals which are reactive with the nitrogen compounds also in their elemental form are reduced to metals. Typically, the oxidation state of the metal source compound is reduced so that the metal on the surface is in a form of a compound. The metal compounds react with the nitrogen source materials easily forming metal nitrides.
- the boron sources are selected bearing in mind the same criteria as for the metal source materials.
- the boron compound can be any volatile, thermally sufficiently stable and reactive boron compound capable of reducing the metal species bonded to the surface.
- the metal source material and boron compound are selected so that the resulting boron compound(s) is (are) gaseous.
- the compound formed is gaseous enough to be moved from the reaction space with the aid of the inert purging gas, and, on the other hand, does not decompose, e.g., catalytically or thermally, to condensable species. In all, byproducts will not remain as impurities in the films. If a reactive site on the surface is contaminated, the growing rate of the film decreases.
- the growing rate of the film does not essentially decrease, i.e., decreases by a maximum of 0.1%, preferably by less than 0.01%, and in particular by less than 0.001% in each cycle.
- An example of an unsuitable pair is TiCl 4 and triethyl boron, the reaction thereof not leading to desired results.
- the selection can be facilitated with computer programs having a sufficiently extensive thermodynamics database, which enables to check the reaction equilibrium and thus predict which reactants have thermodynamically favorable reactions.
- An example of this kind of programs is HSC Chemistry, version 3.02 (1997) by Outokumpu Research Oy, Pori, Finland.
- a vast range of boron chemicals makes it possible to choose suitable reducing strength and avoid boride formation. It is possible to use one or more boron compounds in the growing of one and same thin film.
- one or more of the following boron compounds is used:
- n is an integer from 1 to 10, preferably from 2 to 6, and x is an even integer, preferably 4, 6 or 8, or formula (II)
- n is an integer from 1 to 10, preferably from 2 to 6, and m is an integer different than n, m being from 1 to 10, preferably from 2 to 6.
- Boranes according to formula (I) are exemplified by ' -io-boranes (B n H n+4 ), arachno- boranes (B n H n+6 ) and (B n H n+8 ).
- examples include coH/wT-cto-boranes (B-H,-,).
- borane complexes, such as (CH 3 CH 2 ) 3 N-BH 3 can be used.
- Borane halides particularly fluorides, bromides and chlorides.
- B2H5Br should be mentioned.
- borane halide complexes Boron halides with high boron halide ratio such as B 2 F 4 , B 2 C1 4 and B 2 Br 4 .
- n is an integer from 1 to 10, preferably from 2 to 6, and x is an even integer, preferably 2, 4 or 6.
- Examples of carboranes according to formula (IV) include c/oso-carboranes (C 2 B n H n+2 ), m ' -fo-carboranes (C 2 B n H n+4 ), and ⁇ rac/zno-carboranes (C 2 B n H n+6 ).
- X is linear or branched C l - C, 0 , preferably C, - C 4 alkyl, H or halogen,
- R 2 N (VI) wherein R is linear or branched C r C 10 , preferably C, - C 4 alkyl or substituted or unsubstituted aryl group.
- R is linear or branched C r C 10 , preferably C, - C 4 alkyl or substituted or unsubstituted aryl group.
- An example of suitable aminoborane is (CH 3 ) 2 NB(CH 3 ) 2 .
- Particularly preferred boron compound is triethyl boron (CH 3 CH 2 ) 3 B.
- the reduced metal species bound on the substrate surface will then be subjected to reaction with a nitrogen-containing compound.
- the nitrogen compound used as the nitrogen source material is volatile or gaseous and chosen according to the above criteria, including the criterion relating to the reaction byproducts.
- the nitrogen compound is selected from the group comprising
- NH3 ammonia
- HN3 hydrogen azide
- - alkyl derivates of hydrazine such as dimethyl hydrazine
- the nitride film resulting from the above-described process has a N/W molar ratio of greater than 1, i.e., the nitride is mostly in the form WN 2 .
- the deposition process ends also in this case with a nitrogen source material pulse.
- the structure of the film is different from the one obtained by a process otherwise similar but employing a reducing agent.
- the film produced according to the process employing no reducing agent has rather high resistivity.
- the following non-limiting examples illustrate the invention.
- Tungsten hexafluoride (WF6) and ammonia (NH3) were used as source chemicals. Both chemicals are liquefied gases at room temperature and poses high enough vapor pressure without additional heating for the ALD process.
- Source tubing and the reactor were purged with nitrogen gas which had a purity of 99.9999% (i.e. 6.0).
- the N2 gas was prepared from liquid nitrogen.
- a 200-mm silicon wafer was loaded to an ALD reactor as described in Finnish Patent No. 100409 of assignee.
- Source chemicals were pulses alternately to the substrates at the reaction chamber. The deposition was started and ended with an NH3 pulse.
- the pulsing cycle consisted of the following steps:
- EDS Electron Diffraction Spectroscopy
- the resistivity of the tungsten nitride film was obtained by combining the thickness value with the four-point probe measurements.
- the resistivity of the film grown at 400 °C was 1900 ⁇ cm. High resistivity was possibly caused by the high nitrogen content of the film.
- Tungsten hexafluoride (WF ), triethylboron (CH3CH2)3B and ammonia (NH3) were used as source chemicals. All the chemicals are liquids or liquefied gases at room temperature and poses high enough source vapor pressure without additional heating for the ALD process. Source tubing and the reactor were purged with nitrogen gas which had a purity of 99.9999% (i.e. 6.0). The 2 gas was prepared from liquid nitrogen. A 200-rnm silicon wafer was loaded to an F200 ALD reactor. Source chemicals were pulses alternately to the substrates at the reaction chamber. The pulsing cycle consisted of the following steps:
- the pulsing cycle was repeated for 500 times resulting in a 30-nm film at 360 °C.
- the samples were analyzed by EDS for thickness and composition.
- the thin film consisted of tungsten and nitrogen while boron could not be seen in detectable amounts. There was 3 wt.-% of fluorine as an impurity in the film.
- the resistivity of the tungsten nitride film was obtained by combining the thickness value with the four-point probe measurements. The resistivities were 130 - 160 ⁇ cm.
- the inventors assume that the boron chemical acted as a reducing agent and removed fluorine from tungsten fluoride.
- the benefit of this boron chemical is that possible byproducts such as BF3 and CH3CH2F are gaseous at the deposition temperature and do not disturb the nitride growth.
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