Low-temperature in-situ dry cleaning process for semiconductor w

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1990-04-16

1992-02-18

Chaudhuri, Olik

Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying

437247, 437248, 437937, 437946, 437926, 148DIG17, 134 1, H01L 21306

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ABSTRACT:
A low-temperature (650.degree. C. to 800.degree. C.) in-situ dry cleaning process (FIG. 2) for removing native oxide (and other contaminants) from a semiconductor surface can be used with either multi-wafer or single-wafer semiconductor device manufacturing reactors. A wafer is contacted with a dry cleaning mixture of germane GeH.sub.4 and hydrogen gas (51), such that the germane:hydrogen flow ratio is less than about 0.15:12000 sccm. The dry cleaning mixture can include a halogen-containing gas (such as HCl or HBr) (52, 54) to enhance cleaning of metallic contaminants, and/or anhydrous HF gas (53, 54) to further lower the process temperature. The dry cleaning process can be achieved by introducing some or all of the hydrogen and/or an inert gas as a remote plasma. The dry cleaning process is adaptable as a precleaning step for multiprocessing methodologies that, during transitions between process steps, reduce thermal cycling (FIGS. 3c-3e) by reducing wafer temperature only to an idle temperature (350.degree. C.), and by reducing vacuum cycling by maintaining flow rates for constant gases (FIG. 3c), thereby substantially reducing thermal stress and adsorption of residual impurities, while limiting dopant redistribution.

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