Patent ID: 11885013
Assignee: ASM IP HOLDING B.V.
Field: Surface technology, coating (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC C  H | IPC C  H

Claim 23:
24. A system comprising:
one or more reaction chambers;
a precursor gas source comprising a vanadium oxyhalide precursor fluidly coupled to at least one of the one or more reaction chambers;
a nitrogen reactant gas source;
an exhaust source; and
a controller,
wherein the controller is configured to control flow of the vanadium oxyhalide precursor from the precursor gas source into at least one of the one or more reaction chambers to form a vanadium nitride layer overlying a surface of a substrate using a thermal cyclical deposition process, wherein the thermal cyclical deposition process comprises continuously providing the vanadium halide precursor and periodically providing the nitrogen reactant, and wherein the controller is configured to control a pressure within at least one of the one or more reaction chambers during the thermal cyclical deposition process between 10 Torr and 760 Torr.