• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.202-206
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• 2012

$CoSi_2$ was formed through annealing of atomic layer deposition Co thin films. Co ALD was carried out using bis(N,N'-diisopropylacetamidinato) cobalt ($Co(iPr-AMD)_2$) as a precursor and $NH_3$ as a reactant; this reaction produced a highly conformal Co film with low resistivity ($50\;{\mu}{\Omega}cm$). To prevent oxygen contamination, $ex-situ$ sputtered Ti and $in-situ$ ALD Ru were used as capping layers, and the silicide formation prepared by rapid thermal annealing (RTA) was used for comparison. Ru ALD was carried out with (Dimethylcyclopendienyl)(Ethylcyclopentadienyl) Ruthenium ((DMPD)(EtCp)Ru) and $O_2$ as a precursor and reactant, respectively; the resulting material has good conformality of as much as 90% in structure of high aspect ratio. X-ray diffraction showed that $CoSi_2$ was in a poly-crystalline state and formed at over $800^{\circ}C$ of annealing temperature for both cases. To investigate the as-deposited and annealed sample with each capping layer, high resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) was employed with electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS). After annealing, in the case of the Ti capping layer, $CoSi_2$ about 40 nm thick was formed while the $SiO_x$ interlayer, which is the native oxide, became thinner due to oxygen scavenging property of Ti. Although Si diffusion toward the outside occurred in the Ru capping layer case, and the Ru layer was not as good as the sputtered Ti layer, in terms of the lack of scavenging oxygen, the Ru layer prepared by the ALD process, with high conformality, acted as a capping layer, resulting in the prevention of oxidation and the formation of $CoSi_2$.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.505-511
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• 1998

The silicide formation mechanisms of Co/Hf and Co/Nb bilayer on (100) Si have been investigated. We ob-served that crystallographic orientationso f the 500$^{\circ}C$ formed cobalt silcides were different each other with the varying intermediate layers. Epitaxial and non-epitaxial CoSi2 formed simultaneously in Co/Hf/(100Si. While only non-epitaxial CoSi2 formed in Co/Nb/(100) Si. The reason why the crystallographic orientation of CpSi2 is different for those two systems seemed to be relate to the formation and decomposition of stable reaction barriers at high temperature. The stable reaction barrier formed at high temperature could control the uniform diffusion of Co atoms which enables epitaxial growth of CoSi2.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.16 no.9
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• pp.564-570
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• 2006

Silicides have been required to be below 40 nm-thick and to have low contact resistance without agglomeration at high silicidation temperature. We fabricated composite silicide layers on the wafers from Ni(20 nm)/Co(20 nm)/poly-Si(70 nm) structure by rapid thermal annealing of $700{\sim}1100^{\circ}C$ for 40 seconds. The sheet resistance, surface composition, cross-sectional microstructure, and surface roughness were investigated by a four point probe, a X-ray diffractometer, an Auger electron spectroscopy, a field emission scanning electron microscope, and a scanning probe microscope, respectively. The sheet resistance increased abruptly while thickness decreased as silicidation temperature increased. We propose that the fast metal diffusion along the silicon grain boundary lead to the poly silicon mixing and inversion. Our results imply that we may consider the serious thermal instability in designing and process for the sub-0.1 um CMOS devices.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.22-27
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• 2013

Detailed study on how the plasma process during the sidewall spacer formation suppresses the formation of silicide is done. In non-patterned wafer test, it is found that both fluorocarbon reactive ion etch (RIE) and TEOS plasma-enhanced deposition processes modify the Si surface so that the silicide reaction is chemically inhibited or suppressed. In order to investigate the cause of the chemical modification, we analyze the elements on the silicon surface through Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES). From the AES result, it is found that the carbon induces chemical modification which blocks the reaction between silicon and nickel. Thus, protecting the surface from the carbon-containing plasma process prior to nickel deposition appears critical in successful silicide formation.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.47-51
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• 2008

In this paper, thermal stability of Nickel silicide formed on p-type silicon wafer using Ni-V alloy film was studied. As compared with pure Ni, Ni-V shows better thermal stability. The addition of Vanadium suppresses the phase transition of NiSi to $NiSi_2$ effectively. Ni-V single structure shows the best thermal stability compared with the other Ni-silicide using TiN and Co/TiN capping layers. To enhance the thermal stability up to $650^{\circ}C$ and find out the optimal thickness of Ni silicide, different thickness of Ni-V was also investigated in this work.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07b
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• pp.667-670
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• 2003

Ni-silicide has low thermal stabiliy. This point is obstacle to apply NiSi to devices. So In this paper, we have studied for obtain thermal stability and analysis of dopant dependency of NiSi. And then we applied Ni-silicide to devices. To improvement of thermal stability, we deposit Ni70/Co10/Ni30/TiN100 to sample. Co midlayer is enhanced thermal stability of NiSi. Co/Ni/TiN, this structure show very difference between n-poly and p-poly in sheet resistance. But Ni/Co/Ni/TiN, structure show less difference. Also junction leakage is good.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 1993.02a
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• pp.49-49
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• 1993

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.6 no.8
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• pp.808-816
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• 1996

(100) Si 기판위에 전자 빔 증착법을 이용하여$ 90\AA$두께의 Ti과 $120\AA$두께의 Co를 순차적으로 증착시켰다. 그 후 질소분위기하의 $350-900^{\circ}C$온도구간에서 급속열처리함으로써 (100) Si 기판위의 Co/Ti 이중 박막의 실리사이드화 반응이 일어나게 했으며 이를 XRD, AES, TEM을 이용하여 분석하였다. $500^{\circ}C$이하의 온도에서는 Co원자들이 Ti층쪽으로 빠르게 확산하여 Si와 반응하기 이전에 Ti원자들과 상호 혼합되어 어떠한 실리사이드도 형성되지 않았다. $500^{\circ}C$에서 열처리된 시편의 고분해능전자현미경 영상을 통해 Co-Ti 혼합층과 실리콘 기판과의 계면에서 (100)Si 기판과 정합관계를 가지는 CoSi2가 형성되었음을 확인했다. $600^{\circ}C$열처리에 의해 Co-Ti-Sitka성분 실리사이드가 형성되기 시작하였으며, 형성된 삼성분 실리사이드는 Ti의 out-diffusion에 의해 $900^{\circ}C$ 이상의 온도에서는 불안정하였다. Co/Ti이중 박막에 의해 형성된 CoSi2는 실리콘 기판과 평탄한 계면을 가지며 실리콘 기판에 대해 (100)우선성장방위를 가졌다.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 1995.11a
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• pp.35-35
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• 1995

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.409-413
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• 2010

We fabricated 10 nm-thick cobalt silicide($CoSi_2$) as a buffer layer on a p-type Si(100) substrate to investigate the possibility of GaN epitaxial growth on $CoSi_2/Si(100)$ substrates. We deposited 500 nm-GaN on the cobalt silicide buffer layer at low temperature with a PA-MBE (plasma assisted-molecular beam epitaxy) after the $CoSi_2/Si$ substrates were cleaned by HF solution. An optical microscopy, AFM, TEM, and HR-XRD (high resolution X-ray diffractometer) were employed to determine the GaN epitaxy. For the GaN samples without HF cleaning, they showed no GaN epitaxial growth. For the GaN samples with HF cleaning, they showed $4\;{\mu}m$-thick GaN epitaxial growth due to surface etching of the silicide layers. Through XRD $\omega$-scan of GaN <0002> direction, we confirmed the cyrstallinity of GaN epitaxy is $2.7^{\circ}$ which is comparable with that of sapphire substrate. Our result implied that $CoSi_2/Si(100)$ substrate would be a good buffer and substrate for GaN epitaxial growth.