Patent ID: 8491967

Claim:
A method for treating a chamber and depositing a material on a substrate surface, comprising: exposing inner surfaces of a processing chamber and a substrate disposed within the processing chamber simultaneously to a treatment gas comprising a hydrogenated ligand compound during a pretreatment process, wherein the hydrogenated ligand compound has the chemical formula of HL, wherein the ligand L of the hydrogenated ligand compound is selected from the group consisting of cyclopentadienyl, alkylcyclopentadienyl, pentadienyl, pyrrolyl, isomers thereof, derivatives thereof, and combinations thereof and a coating of the hydrogenated ligand compound is formed on the inner surfaces of the processing chamber during the pretreatment process; and subsequently exposing the substrate to a first precursor gas to deposit a material on the substrate within the processing chamber during a vapor deposition process, wherein the first precursor gas comprises a first precursor having the chemical formula of ML′ x , where x is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or greater, M is an element selected from the group consisting of Ti, Zr, Hf, Nb, Ta, Mo, W, Ru, Co, Ni, Pd, Pt, Cu, Al, Ga, In, Si, Ge, Sn, P, As, and Sb, and each L′ is independently a ligand selected from the group consisting of alkylamino, alkylimino, alkoxy, alkyl, alkene, alkyne, cyclopentadienyl, alkylcyclopentadienyl, pentadienyl, pyrrolyl, hydrogen, halogen, isomers thereof, derivatives thereof, and combinations thereof.