Coating processes – Coating by vapor – gas – or smoke – Base includes an inorganic compound containing silicon or...
Reexamination Certificate
2006-02-14
2006-02-14
Meeks, Timothy (Department: 1762)
Coating processes
Coating by vapor, gas, or smoke
Base includes an inorganic compound containing silicon or...
C427S255180, C427S255270
Reexamination Certificate
active
06998153
ABSTRACT:
A method that includes placing a wafer within a process chamber, generating a nitrogen plasma that is remote from the process chamber, nitriding a surface of the wafer with the nitrogen plasma, depositing a nickel film over the nitrided silicon substrate surface, and annealing the nickel film to form NiSi.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2002/0064918 (2002-05-01), Lee et al.
patent: 2003/0157771 (2003-08-01), Luoh et al.
Chiang Mei-Ling
Chua Thai-Cheng
Applied Materials Inc.
Fuller Eric B.
Meeks Timothy
Patterson & Sheridan LLP
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