Nitrided silicon dioxide layers for semiconductor integrated cir

Details Nitrided silicon dioxide layers for semiconductor integrated cir Nitrided silicon dioxide layers for semiconductor integrated cir

1984-12-05

1986-11-18

Edlow, Martin H.

357 2315, H01L 2934

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ABSTRACT:
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a nitrided silicon dioxide layer typically 50 to 400 Angstroms thick located on a semiconductor medium. The nitrided layer is an original silicon dioxide layer that has been nitrided at its top surface, as by rapid (flash) heating in ammonia to about 1250 degrees C., in such a way that the resulting nitrided silicon dioxide layer is essentially a compound layer of silicon nitroxide on silicon dioxide in which the atomic concentration fraction of nitrogen falls from a value greater than 0.13 at the top surface of the compound layer to a value of about 0.13 within 30 Angstroms or less beneath the top surface, and advantageously to values of less than about 0.05 everywhere at distances greater than about 60 Angstroms or less beneath the top surface, except that the nitrogen fraction can rise to as much as about 0.10 in the layer at distances within about 20 Angstroms from the interface of the nitrided layer and the underlying semiconductor medium.

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