Patent ID: 6136095
Filing Date: 2000-10-24
Classification: C23C,H01J,H01L

Abstract:
An apparatus for filling apertures in a film layer on a semiconductor substrate, comprising:a) a sputter chamber which provides an ionized sputtered deposition material which forms a conformal film layer over said aperture surface, said chamber including a sputter deposition material source, a gas supply, a substrate positioning member, a first plasma generation source which produces active species used to impact said sputter deposition material source, and a second, inductively coupled RF plasma generation source which is used to ionize sputtered deposition material which passes through a plasma generated by said second plasma generation source at a location between said sputter deposition material source and said substrate;b) a deposition chamber which provides a source of material for deposition over said conformal film layer formed over said aperture in said sputter chamber; andc) a transfer chamber interconnecting said sputter chamber and said deposition chamber.