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- This invention relates to a method for forming a film by deposition from a plasma on to a work surface. More particularly, it concerns the use of microwave energy to produce the plasma by electron cyclotron resonance.
- a-Si:H amorphous silicon
- a-Si:H amorphous silicon
- Other precursor gases which can be used to deposit amorphous silicon, or amorphous silicon alloys include molecules in which silicon is present in combination with one or more of carbon, oxygen, or nitrogen, optionally together with hydrogen.
- a silicon alloy is a structure of the type denoted by SiO x N y .
- silicon-containing gases may be used together with other gases, for example germane, or gases not containing silicon may be used to deposit other films.
- gases not containing silicon may be used to deposit other films.
- amorphous silicon films One area of particular interest as regards the use of amorphous silicon films is in devices for converting solar energy into electrical power. Such amorphous silicon material can also find use in electronic applications such as TFT for display.
- the term "amorphous silicon” denotes hydrogenated amorphous silicon, a-Si:H. For use in the areas just mentioned, some hydrogen must be present, typically 3-20%, to passivate the dangling bonds which are defects.
- SiH 3 radicals To favour the deposition of high quality silicon film at low temperature, it is desirable to promote the formation of SiH 3 radicals. This is achieved easily using capacitive plasma deposition, due to the low plasma density and the incomplete dissociation of the film precursor gas. However, the deposition rate is very low.
- SiH 3 radicals is more complex to achieve with high-density plasmas, due to the extent of the dissociation of the film precursor gas.
- the use of high- density plasmas makes it possible to achieve a very high deposition rate.
- the present invention is particularly concerned with distributed ECR technology (DECR), which is a technology developed to create high density, low temperature plasmas suitable for coating large area substrates.
- DECR technology is a direct dissociation technology, which means that the system uses a single chamber. In this technology, both dissociation of gaseous precursors and the deposition of radicals onto the substrate to form a film take place in this single chamber. Further details can be found, for example, in US-A-6407359, corresponding to EP-A- 1075168.
- divergent ECR is an indirect dissociation process.
- a plasma of He or hydrogen is created in a separate plasma chamber where the ECR plasma is ignited.
- This chamber is connected via an orifice to a deposition chamber to allow ions and neutral species to be transferred from one chamber into the other. Ions created within the plasma chamber travel along the magnetic lines from the plasma chamber to the substrate surface located in the deposition chamber.
- Silane, or other film precursor gas is only injected in the deposition chamber, and is dissociated via reactions with ions, radicals and/or activated species created in the plasma chamber. This means that silane dissociation is indirect and is not due to collisions with hot electrons present in the ECR zone.
- DECR possesses significant advantages compared to divergent ECR in terms of simplicity, scalability and capability to deposit homogeneous film over large surface.
- DECR at least as currently practised, possesses some disadvantages as regards the deposition of high quality silicon films at high rate.
- One reason for this is as follows.
- DECR uses a single deposition chamber
- direct dissociation of silane by hot electrons created in the ECR zone leads to the creation of a mixture of radicals having very different levels of dissociation, for example SiH 3 , SiH 2 , SiH and Si.
- SiH 2 for example is mainly produced not via SiH 3 dissociation but mostly by direct silane dissociation by a hot electron, with the creation of two atomic hydrogens.
- SiH 3 can occur by direct electron dissociation.
- An object of the present invention is to address this problem and deposit a high quality silicon film at high rate and possibly low substrate temperature, this film being deposited mainly from highly mobile SiH 3 precursors.
- a method of depositing film of an amorphous or microcrystalline material from a plasma on to a substrate wherein microwave energy is introduced into a chamber as a sequence of discrete microwave pulses, a film precursor gas is introduced into the chamber as a sequence of discrete gas pulses, and gas for generating atomic hydrogen is supplied to the chamber at least during each microwave pulse, each microwave pulse being followed in non- overlapping fashion with a precursor gas pulse, and each precursor gas pulse being followed by a period during which there is neither a microwave pulse nor a precursor gas pulse.
- a continuous flow of hydrogen is fed into the DECR reactor.
- Microwave power is pulsed to the DECR antennas, creating alternate ignition and extinction of the hydrogen plasma.
- the silane film precursor gas
- the silane is injected during the off-pause of the plasma and only during this phase, so that the silane flow is pulsed with the pulsing of the microwaves.
- the reactor is mainly fed with hydrogen, and microwave power allows H 2 dissociation into two atomic hydrogens: H 2 + e- ⁇ H + H + e-
- the residence time of the electrons being extremely short, much shorter than the atomic hydrogen residence time, no direct silane dissociation takes place during the OFF phase of the microwave pulse.
- the hydrogen present will react with the pulse of silane to create mainly SiH 3 precursors that will deposit at the surface of the substrate.
- the silane is preferably injected near the substrate while hydrogen is preferably injected in the ECR zones.
- the range of pulsing frequency and the duty cycle are mainly defined by the residence time of the species in the reactor.
- the timelength of the zero silane flow (period between the end of silane pulse and the beginning of microwave pulse) must be long enough to ensure that most of the silane molecules will be dissociated or evacuated from the reactor before switching on the microwave power. This minimizes the direct dissociation of silane, which is not desired in the present case.
- the length of the silane pulse should preferably not be longer than the atomic hydrogen residence time because any silane injected for a period longer than the atomic hydrogen residence time will lead to undissociated silane and so to the loss of valuable raw material.
- Figure 1 is a diagram which shows the criteria to be used for defining the pulse frequency and duty cycle for the microwaves and silane flow;
- Figure 2 is a diagram showing four options where the flow of hydrogen is continuous or pulsed, and a constant bias is applied to the substrate;
- Figure 3 is a diagram showing four options where the flow of hydrogen is continuous, and the bias is pulsed.
- FIG 4 is a diagram showing six options where the flow of hydrogen and the bias are both pulsed.
- the pulse cycle consists of a period m on when the microwave power is on, a non-overlapping (though, in this case, contiguous) period S 0n when silane, or other film precursor gas is being introduced, and a period m/S o ff, when the microwave power is off and silane is not introduced. If the frequency of the microwave and silane flow pulses are equal, their duty cycles may be different to optimize the deposition.
- Hydrogen may be introduced throughout all three periods. Alternatively, however, the flow of hydrogen could also be pulsed, as shown in Figures 2 and 4, provided that hydrogen is introduced at least during each microwave pulse.
- the time m on is determined by the capability of the plasma pulse to generate atomic hydrogen. Typically its length is from 0.1 ms to 1 s.
- the time S 0n is determined by the length of time for which the atomic hydrogen generated by the preceding microwave pulse continues to be present in the reactor, so as to be available to react with the silane. This will be the shorter of the lifetime of the atomic hydrogen (before it is converted into molecular hydrogen, or other molecules including hydrogen) and the residence time of the hydrogen (before it can be pumped out of the chamber). Under the conditions of very low pressure which are preferably used in DECR reactors, the lifetime of atomic hydrogen is very short, and is likely to be much shorter than residence time, in a reactor of typical size, in which case it is the former which will then determine how long the period S 0n should be. Of course, it is not essential that S 0n should precisely equal the lifetime of atomic hydrogen, but the more nearly it does so the more efficient will be the formation of the desirable SiH 3 radicals.
- m/s off is determined by the length of time taken to evacuate from the reactor the silane, and those gaseous species which have been generated from the silane but not deposited on the substrate. This will vary depending on reactor size and pumping rate, but typically m/s Of r should be of the order of 30ms, and, more generally, from 1 ms to 100 ms.
- the frequency of the microwave pulses and silane pulses will typically be from IHz to 3OkHz, more preferably from IHz to 10kHz, most preferably from IHz to 250Hz.
- a bias voltage is preferably applied to the substrate to assist deposition.
- the substrate is non-conductive, for example glass
- DC bias voltage develops on the substrate surface using an RF voltage source. Further discussion of this is to be found in our copending application filed on the same date as the present application and entitled "Method for forming a film of amorphous silicon by deposition from a plasma" (our reference G27558EP (European Patent Application No. 06301114.2)).
- the bias voltage can be pulsed, and some options for this are shown in Figures 3 and 4.
- the bias voltage can be pulsed in synchronisation with the microwave pulses, provided that the duration of the microwave pulses is not too short. Typically, synchronised pulsing is possible provided the microwave pulses are not shorter than about 30 ms.
- the minimum microwave pulse time which permits such synchronisation is determined by the time constant of the system which comprises the plasma reactor and the generator applying the RF voltage.
- molecular hydrogen is the gas which is introduced into the chamber in order to generate atomic hydrogen.
- some other gas can be used for this purpose.
- the film to be produced is SiC
- the carbon for the film and the atomic hydrogen could both be derived by introducing a gas which contained carbon and hydrogen, for example methane.
- an SiN film could be produced by using ammonia.
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