Process Hierarchy

  Stoichiometric silicon nitride LPCVD
  1 RCA1 clean
  2 HF dip
Deposition rate35 Å/minTemperature800 °C
Residual stress900 MPaUniformity0.025
Process characteristics:
Thickness
Thickness*
must be 0.1 .. 1 µm
0.1 .. 1 µm
Material silicon nitride
Wafer size
Wafer size