Direct-Liquid-Injection Chemical Vapor Deposition of Nickel Nitride Films and Their Reduction to Nickel Films
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Pallem, Venkateswara
Li, Huazhi
Shenai, Deo V.
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Li, Zhefeng, Roy G. Gordon, Venkateswara Pallem, Huazhi Li, and Deo V. Shenai. 2010. Direct-liquid-injection chemical vapor deposition of nickel nitride films and their reduction to nickel films. Chemistry of Materials 22(10): 3060–3066.Abstract
Smooth and continuous films of nickel nitride (NiNx) with excellent step coverage were deposited from a novel nickel amidinate precursor, Ni(MeC(NtBu)2)2, and either ammonia (NH3) or a mixture of NH3 and hydrogen (H2) gases as co-reactants. The reactants were injected together in direct-liquid-injection chemical vapor deposition (DLI-CVD) processes at substrate temperatures of 160−200 °C. Depending on the ratio of NH3 to H2 gases during deposition, the Ni:N atomic ratio in DLI-CVD NiNx films could be varied from 3:1 to 15:1, having either a cubic nickel structure or a mixture of hexagonal Ni3N and cubic Ni4N crystal structures with an incorporation of nitrogen as low as 6%. The chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth rates of NiNx could be increased to more than 5 nm/min. The CVD films were smooth and continuous, and they had 100% step coverage in high-aspect-ratio (>50:1) holes. The as-deposited NiNx films had resistivities as low as 50 μΩ cm for film thicknesses of 25 nm. Annealing of the films in H2 at 160 °C or hydrogen plasma treatment at room temperature removed the nitrogen and led to pure nickel films.Citable link to this page
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