화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, Vol.16, No.3, 1082-1086, 1998
Moderately in situ phosphorus-doped polycrystalline silicon by single wafer reduced pressure chemical vapor deposition
A study of moderately in situ doped polycrystalline silicon deposition from SiH4, PH3, and H-2 by single-wafer reduced pressure chemical vapor deposition has been carried out. The process window which yielded P concentrations on the order of 10(19) cm(-3) was a pressure of 80 Torr in a hydrogen carrier with a PH3/SiH4 mole fraction range of 0.1 x 10(-4)-1 x 10(-4), and temperatures of 600-700 degrees C. It was found that the PH3/SiH4 mole fraction in this process window has little effect on the deposition rate unlike the rate reduction caused by PH3 in a saturation-doped polysilicon process with doping levels in excess of 10(20) cm(-3). The activation energy of the process, 48 kCal mol(-1) over this temperature range approaches one of a hydrogen desorption limited process, 49 kCal mol(-1) suggesting that the deposition rate is dominated by the high H-2 pressure. The transition of the as-deposited film structure from predominately amorphous to completely polycrystalline occurs at about 675 degrees C, about 100 degrees C higher than in typical low-pressure chemical vapor deposition and is likely due to a combination of high H-2 pressure and high deposition rates. To a first order, the post-anneal film resistivity appears to be dominated by the grain structure and not by the P incorporation rate in the moderately doped concentration regime.