Patent ID: 7361611

Claim:
A method of producing a doped silicon nitride film, doped silicon oxide film, doped silicon oxynitride film or doped silicon carbide film, comprising: providing at least one silicon precursor, in the case of a doped silicon nitride film, doped silicon oxide film or doped silicon oxynitride film, providing at least one of a nitrogen precursor or an oxygen precursor, providing at least one non-silicon precursor, and forming a doped silicon nitride film, a doped silicon oxide film, a doped silicon oxynitride film or a doped silicon carbide film having a stress tuned to a selected level from said at least one silicon precursor and said at least one non-silicon precursor, and in the case of a doped silicon nitride film, doped silicon oxide film or doped silicon oxynitride film, said nitrogen precursor or said oxygen precursor, provided that when the film is a doped silicon oxide, the non-silicon precursor is neither boron nor phosphorous, wherein the providing steps are performed by deposition and the deposition is conducted at room temperature.