Patent ID: 10388511

Abstract:
There is provided a method of forming a silicon nitride film including: arranging substrates in a process vessel; and forming a silicon nitride film on the substrates in a batch by repeating a cycle including: a first purge step of purging the process vessel while heating the process vessel and making an interior of the process vessel be in a predetermined depressurized state; a film-forming raw material gas adsorbing step of adsorbing a chlorine-containing silicon compound to the substrates by supplying a film-forming raw material gas composed of the chlorine-containing silicon compound into the process vessel; a second purge step of purging the process vessel; and a nitriding step of nitriding the substrates by supplying a nitriding gas into the process vessel, and wherein in each of the cycle, a hydrogen radical purge step is performed between the film-forming raw material gas adsorbing step and the nitriding step.