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25 March 2019 Ultra-thin conformal coating for spin-on doping applications
Mingqi Li, Bhooshan Popere, Peter Trefonas, Andrew T. Heitsch, Ratchana Limary, Reika Katsumata, Yuanyi Zhang, Rachel A. Segalman
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Abstract
As devices become ever smaller and more sophisticated, there is also a general need for creating high quality defect-free thin coatings of polymers on 3-dimensional wafer topography, for example, for shrinkage of the size of trench openings. To address this challenge, we developed a spin-on polymer brush material, which comprises of a dopant moiety with a universal adhesive dopamine end group. We demonstrate that the polymer coating is highly conformal and free of pinhole defects, even when only a few nm thick, or when coated over high aspect ratio over 200 nm deep trench topography. Our investigations demonstrate that the dopamine end group enables stable sub-10 nm thick conformal coatings on three-dimensional surfaces.

Furthermore, on acute 3-dimensional semiconductor topography, the creation of highly doped abrupt, ultra-shallow junctions with three-dimensional control are essential for successful source-drain contacts. In consideration of this need, we extended the above polymer brush concept further by incorporating a suitable implant dopant atom, such as boron, into the monomer structure. After conformal coating and a subsequent rapid thermal annealing process, the dopant atom is driven into the semiconductor substrate underneath the polymer film. This is potentially very useful for uniform all-around doping of 3-dimensional topography such as FinFETs or Nanowire-FETs. A high dopant dosage on silicon substrate with appropriate shallow implant characteristics was demonstrated for the end-functionalized dopant polymer brush, highlighting one of the promising applications of such conformal coatings.
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Mingqi Li, Bhooshan Popere, Peter Trefonas, Andrew T. Heitsch, Ratchana Limary, Reika Katsumata, Yuanyi Zhang, and Rachel A. Segalman "Ultra-thin conformal coating for spin-on doping applications", Proc. SPIE 10960, Advances in Patterning Materials and Processes XXXVI, 109600R (25 March 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2514830
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KEYWORDS
Polymers

Doping

Coating

Silicon

Boron

Semiconducting wafers

Polymer thin films

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