Internal stress of amorphous carbon nitride films

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作者
Aono, M [1 ]
Nitta, S [1 ]
Katsuno, T [1 ]
Iuchi, T [1 ]
机构
[1] Gifu Univ, Dept Elect Engn, Gifu 5011193, Japan
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JOURNAL OF VACUUM SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY B | 2000年 / 18卷 / 03期
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10.1116/1.591470
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We have studied the characteristics of amorphous carbon nitride (a-CNx) films as low dielectric constant materials for ultralarge scale integration. In this article the initial internal stress of a-CNx films is studied and discussed. The stress in a single-layer film on a substrate is determined using the measured radius of curvature and Stoney's equation. a-CNx films are prepared by a reactive radio frequency magnetron sputtering on the ultrathin quartz glass substrates. It is observed that the internal stress in a-CNx depends mainly on the substrate temperature increasing from about 10 to 50 MPa of compressive nature. These values are about one tenth of that for hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) prepared by a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition. (C) 2000 American Vacuum Society.
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