KR20160137743A - Atomic layer deposition apparatus and methods - Google Patents
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Abstract
The present invention deposits only the first reaction layer on the substrate while moving the substrate along the first direction and deposits only the second reaction layer on the substrate while moving the substrate in the opposite direction of the first direction. During the movement in the first direction, the raw precursor is injected onto the substrate through the precursor injection channel to deposit a first reaction layer on the substrate surface, oxygen gas is injected through the oxygen gas injection channel onto the first reaction layer Spray and purge. During at least a portion of the movement in the opposite direction of the first direction, an oxygen plasma is injected onto the substrate through the oxygen gas injection channel to deposit the second reaction layer on the first reaction layer.
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The present invention relates to a thin film deposition apparatus, and more particularly, to an atomic layer deposition apparatus and method for depositing an atomic layer on a substrate.
Atomic layer deposition is widely used as a method of depositing a thin film on a semiconductor wafer, and is being applied to a method of depositing a thin film on a CIGS solar cell substrate, a Si solar cell substrate, and an OLED display substrate. A typical atomic layer deposition process consists of four steps as follows:
In the first step, a source precursor, for example TMA (trimethyl-aluminum), is injected onto the substrate. The raw precursor reacts with the surface of the substrate to coat the substrate surface with the first reaction layer.
In the purge gas injection step, which is the second step, an inert gas such as nitrogen is injected onto the substrate to remove the raw material precursor that is physically adsorbed on the substrate surface.
In a third step, a reactant precursor, for example H 2 O, is injected onto the substrate. The reaction precursor reacts with the first reaction layer to coat the substrate surface with the second reaction layer.
In the fourth purge gas injection step, an inert gas is injected onto the substrate to remove the reaction precursor physically adsorbed on the substrate surface. By this cycle, a single layer of a first reaction layer and a second reaction layer, for example, an Al 2 O 3 thin film, is deposited on the substrate. The cycle is repeated to obtain a thin film having a desired thickness.
The thin film deposition rate by the atomic layer deposition method is determined by the time required for the cycle consisting of the above four steps. Since the raw precursor, the purge gas, the reaction precursor and the purge gas are sequentially supplied, the deposition rate is slow have.
1 and 2, a space division method which is another atomic layer deposition method will be described. 1 and 2 are a side view and a plan view of an atomic layer deposition apparatus by a space division method, respectively. As shown in FIG. 1, in the space division system, a reaction precursor ejection port 21, an
However, in this method, in order to obtain a uniform film thickness at the
In addition, in order to deposit a thin film having a desired thickness at a high speed, there is a problem that the substrate must be reciprocally moved 52 at a high speed by a distance corresponding to the width of the shower head 50w plus the width 20w of the showerhead. This problem becomes more pronounced as the width 50w of the substrate or the width 20w of the shower head becomes larger. For example, a CIGS solar cell substrate has a width of 1200 mm and a length of 600 mm, so the minimum moving distance of the substrate is 600 mm or more. Another example is a 5.5G OLED display substrate with a width of 1500mm and a height of 1300mm, so the minimum moving distance of the substrate is more than 1300mm.
In addition, since the gas is simultaneously injected toward the substrate, the precursor of the material is diffused and mixed with each other, so that particles are generated by direct reaction between the precursors. To prevent such diffusion, it is important to keep the distance between the substrate and the
As described above, in the atomic layer deposition, there is a need for an atomic layer deposition apparatus and a method which are designed so that the raw material precursor and the reaction precursor are not mixed with each other while reducing the cycle time.
It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus and a method for depositing an atomic layer in which a raw material precursor and a reaction precursor are not mixed with each other and a cycle time is reduced.
The present invention deposits only the first reaction layer on the substrate while moving the substrate along the first direction and deposits only the second reaction layer on the substrate while moving the substrate in the opposite direction of the first direction.
During at least a portion of the movement in the first direction, the source precursor is injected onto the substrate through the precursor precursor injection channel to deposit the first reaction layer on at least a portion of the substrate surface. Also, oxygen gas is injected onto the substrate through the oxygen gas injection channel during at least part of the movement in the first direction. Oxygen gas is used to purge the raw material precursor and reaction by-products that remain adsorbed on the first reaction layer.
During at least a part of the movement in the opposite direction of the first direction, oxygen gas is supplied through the oxygen gas injection channel while plasma power is applied to the oxygen gas to convert it into oxygen plasma, and the oxygen plasma is injected onto the substrate, 2 Reaction layer is deposited. And oxygen gas is injected onto the substrate through the oxygen gas injection channel in an ecology where no plasma power is applied during at least a part of the movement in the reverse direction of the first direction. The oxygen gas is adsorbed on the second reaction layer to purge the remaining oxygen plasma and reaction by-products.
According to the present invention, it is possible to secure an atomic layer deposition apparatus and a method capable of reducing the cycle time and preventing generation of particles due to the premix of the raw material precursor and the reaction precursor.
1 is a side view of an atomic layer deposition apparatus according to the prior art;
2 is a plan view of an atomic layer deposition apparatus according to the prior art;
3 to 11 are sectional views of an atomic layer deposition apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a cross-sectional view of an atomic
The showerhead 110 includes at least one raw
According to one embodiment, the
According to one embodiment, the
A conductive electrode rod (25) is disposed in the oxygen gas injection channel (20). Plasma power can be applied to the
An
The
Referring to Figs. 4 to 11, an embodiment of a method of depositing an aluminum oxide film using the atomic
(1) As shown in FIG. 4, any
(2) The
(3) the
6 to 7 in the
(5) As shown in FIG. 8, the injection precursor injection blocking step (340) for blocking injection of the TMA (14)
(7) a fifth movement step 350 of applying plasma power to the
(8) An
After the second reactive layer deposition step 360 is completed, the process returns to the substrate placement and gas injection step 300 and repeats the steps sequentially to form an aluminum layer as the first reaction layer and an oxygen layer as the second reaction layer, 50 on an
According to one embodiment, instead of injecting the
According to one embodiment, it is also possible to block the injection of the
According to one embodiment, inert gas may be injected into the
According to one embodiment, the
It is also possible to deposit another metal oxide instead of the aluminum oxide film by an atomic layer deposition method by using a raw material precursor containing another metal element instead of TMA. Also, in the case of depositing a metal nitride instead of a metal oxide, a gas containing a nitrogen component may be injected instead of oxygen gas, and plasma power may be applied to the
While the invention has been described with reference to specific embodiments, the invention is not to be limited by the specific embodiments described, but may be advantageously applied to modified embodiments which are within the scope of the invention.
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A substrate mounting step of mounting a substrate on the substrate support;
A substrate positioning step of moving the substrate support to position the substrate adjacent to the showerhead;
An oxygen gas injection step of injecting and discharging oxygen gas toward the substrate through the oxygen gas and the oxygen plasma injection channel;
A first moving step of moving the substrate along a first direction;
A first reaction layer formation that forms a first reaction layer on at least a portion of the substrate by injecting and exhausting the source precursor onto the substrate through the source precursor injection channel toward the substrate during at least a portion of the first movement step step;
A first purge step of exposing the first reaction layer to the oxygen gas during at least a part of the first movement step to purge the surface of the first reaction layer by the oxygen gas;
Stopping the supply of the precursor of the raw material to stop the injection of the precursor;
A second moving step of moving the substrate in a direction opposite to the first direction; And
Forming a second reaction layer forming an oxygen-containing second reaction layer on the first reaction layer by injecting and exhausting an oxygen plasma onto the substrate through the oxygen gas injection channel during at least a portion of the second movement step And depositing an atomic layer on the substrate.
Wherein the oxygen plasma is generated by applying plasma power to the oxygen gas while the oxygen gas is injected through the oxygen gas injection channel.
Wherein the oxygen plasma is generated in a remote plasma generator installed outside the showerhead and supplied onto the substrate through the showerhead.
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