Patent ID: 7431966

Claim:
An atomic layer deposition method of depositing an oxide on a substrate comprising: providing a substrate within a deposition chamber; chemisorbing a first species to form a first species monolayer onto the substrate within the deposition chamber from a gaseous precursor; contacting the chemisorbed first species with remote plasma oxygen derived at least in part from at least one of O 2 and O 3 and with remote plasma nitrogen effective to react with the first species to form a monolayer comprising an oxide of a component of the first species monolayer; and successively repeating the chemisorbing and the contacting with remote plasma oxygen and with remote plasma nitrogen effective to form porous electrically conductive oxide comprising In x Sn y O, on the substrate, the gaseous precursor comprising an indium-containing precursor and a tin-containing precursor which are fed to the deposition chamber simultaneously.