Hafnium oxide deposition (CVD)

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The equipment required for this process are a CVD and a plasma cleaner for removing impurities after the Hafnium oxide deposition

Chemical properties of Hafnium-Tetrachloride

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HfCl4 can be produced by several related procedures:

  • The reaction of carbon tetrachloride and hafnium oxide at above 450 °C;
HfO2 + 2 CCl4 → HfCl4 + 2 COCl2
  • Chlorination of a mixture of HfO2 and carbon above 600 °C using chlorine gas or sulfur monochloride:
HfO2 + 2 Cl2 + C → HfCl4 + CO2
  • Chlorination of hafnium carbide above 250 °C.

The result of those chemical reactions is a crystalline powder with a melting point of 432 °C

Processing steps

Since HfCl4 is a solid salt at room temperature, we need to first create a liquid precursor, and use direct liquid injection for using it in our CVD.

The process is based on a Japanese paper and requires a complex precursor.

The synthesis of this the Hf precursor TDEAH (Hf(NEt2)4) is so complex, that it needs its own page.

Links

Study HfO2 formation: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1149/MA2005-02/13/547/pdf

A Japanese paper how they grew it with an LPCVD: http://www.trichemical.com/topics/Manuscript%20revisions.pdf