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CHAPTER 3. PLASMA ENHANCED ATOMIC LAYER <strong>DEPOSITION</strong> <strong>OF</strong> HAFNIUM<br />

3.1 Introduction<br />

NITRIDE <strong>FILM</strong>S<br />

Chemical vapor deposition of HfN can make films of high conformality and thus provide<br />

the possibility of fabricating high aspect ratio microelectronic structures. One of the challenges<br />

for this method is the selection of appropriate chemicals. Hafnium amide precursors have been<br />

successfully used in the deposition of HfO2, Hf3N4 and HfN by reacting with oxygen (O2),<br />

ammonia (NH3) and dimethyl hydrazine (H2NN(CH3)2) respectively.[63,67,70] For the<br />

deposition of HfN using dimethyl hydrazine, usually a high substrate temperature (600˚C~800˚C)<br />

is needed to initiate the reaction, which is not appropriate for certain thermal sensitive materials<br />

used in the microelectronic devices. Hydrogen plasma which has much higher reactivity than<br />

hydrazine can be used in low temperature plasma enhanced ALD process of HfN thin<br />

films.[71,72] In this chapter, the hafnium precursor tetrakis (dimethylamido) hafnium (IV)<br />

(TDMAH) used for thin film growth is studied first, i.e., in-situ monitoring of adsorption and<br />

reaction behavior of TDMAH on hydrogenated Si(100) by ATR-FTIR. It's important to<br />

understand the thermal decomposition and surface adsorption behavior of this precursor for ALD<br />

thin film growth, because it is directly related to the film contamination and interfacial bonding<br />

information.[143] PEALD of HfN thin film growth by using TDMAH and hydrogen plasma is<br />

studied. The as-deposited thin films were characterized by XPS, AFM, XRD, SEM and TEM to<br />

study the chemical composition, surface morphology and crystal structure information. Thin film<br />

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