Semiconductor device manufacturing: process – Making device or circuit emissive of nonelectrical signal – Compound semiconductor
Reexamination Certificate
2007-03-06
2007-03-06
Pham, Long (Department: 2814)
Semiconductor device manufacturing: process
Making device or circuit emissive of nonelectrical signal
Compound semiconductor
C438S235000, C438S312000, C438S318000, C438S320000, C427S124000, C427S255120, C427S255290, C427S255700, C257S019000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11124340
ABSTRACT:
Chemical vapor deposition processes utilize higher order silanes and germanium precursors as chemical precursors. The processes have high deposition rates yet produce more uniform films, both compositionally and in thickness, than films prepared using conventional chemical precursors. In preferred embodiments, trisilane is employed to deposit SiGe-containing films that are useful in the semiconductor industry in various applications such as transistor gate electrodes.
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ASM America Inc.
Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP
Pham Long
Rao Shrinivas H.
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