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Development of High Purity One Atm Ozone Source - Its Application to Ultrathin SiO2 Film Formation on Si Substrate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

Kunihiko Koike ,
Goichi Inoue ,
Shingo Ichimura ,
Ken Nakamura ,
Akira Kurokawa  and
Hidehiko Nonaka
Kunihiko Koike
Affiliation:
Iwatani International Corporation, 4-5-1 Katsube, Moriyama, Shiga, 524-0041, Japan, kkoike@iwatani.co.jp
Goichi Inoue
Affiliation:
Iwatani International Corporation, 4-5-1 Katsube, Moriyama, Shiga, 524-0041, Japan, kkoike@iwatani.co.jp
Shingo Ichimura
Affiliation:
Electrotechnical Laboratory, 1-1-4 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8568, Japan
Ken Nakamura
Affiliation:
Electrotechnical Laboratory, 1-1-4 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8568, Japan
Akira Kurokawa
Affiliation:
Electrotechnical Laboratory, 1-1-4 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8568, Japan
Hidehiko Nonaka
Affiliation:
Electrotechnical Laboratory, 1-1-4 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8568, Japan
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Abstract

A high-concentration ozone generator operating at atmospheric pressure has been developed for fabrication of ultra thin silicon oxide films. The generator can supply atmospheric pressure of ozone jet with ozone concentration up to 80 vol%. The ozone jet is generated by desorbing ozone at nearbyn room temperature, which has been condensed on silica-gel by passing ozone/oxygen mixture gas from a commercial ozonizer at a low temperature (<-50°C); at the temperature ozone is more selectively adsorbed on silica-gel than oxygen. The high purity ozone jet with a concentration of 25 vol% at a pressure of 1 × 105 Pa had so large oxidation power that SiO2 film as thick as 3.3 nm grew on a Si surface after 60 min exposure at 375°C. The density of the film was equivalent to that of the film formed by a conventional thermal oxidation process, judging from etching rate with dilute HF solution.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 567: Symposium R – Ultrathin SiO2 and Higg-K Materials for ULSI Gate Dielectrics , 1999 , 121
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1999

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