Patent ID: 7576005

Claim:
A method of forming a seed layer on a material layer of a semiconductor device, the method comprising: adsorbing a monolayer of first atoms on the material layer, the first atoms comprising a first density; lowering a temperature of the semiconductor device; forming a weakly bound layer of first molecules over the monolayer; exposing the weakly bound layer of first molecules to energy, dissociating a portion of the first molecules in the weakly bound layer proximate the monolayer of first atoms; and heating the semiconductor device, wherein heating the semiconductor device comprises migrating atoms from dissociated first molecules in the weakly bound layer closest to the monolayer of first atoms into the monolayer of first atoms and removing a remainder of the weakly bound layer of first molecules, wherein the first atoms of the monolayer comprise a second density after heating the semiconductor device, the second density being greater than the first density, wherein the monolayer of first atoms comprises the seed layer.