Growth inhibition to enhance conformal coverage in thin film chemical vapor deposition

Navneet Kumar, Angel Yanguas-Gil, Scott R. Daly, Gregory S. Girolami, John R. Abelson

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Abstract

We introduce the use of a growth inhibitor to enhance thin film conformality in low temperature chemical vapor deposition. Films of TiB 2 grown from the single source precursor Ti(BH 4) 3(dme) are much more highly conformal when grown in the presence of one of the film growth byproducts, 1,2-dimethoxyethane (dme). This effect can be explained in terms of two alternative inhibitory mechanisms: one involving blocking of surface reactive sites, which is equivalent to reducing the rate of the forward reaction leading to film growth, the other analogous to Le Chatelier's principle, in which the addition of a reaction product increases the rate of the back reaction. The reduction in growth rate corresponds to a reduction in the sticking probability of the precursor, which enhances conformality by enabling the precursor to diffuse deeper into a recessed feature before it reacts.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)17660-17661
Number of pages2
JournalJournal of the American Chemical Society
Volume130
Issue number52
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 31 2008

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Catalysis
  • General Chemistry
  • Biochemistry
  • Colloid and Surface Chemistry

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