Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a method for treating a silicon carbide gate dielectric fluorine plasma, which can avoid the problems of toxic gas, high-temperature process and the like.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the technical scheme that: the method for treating the silicon carbide gate dielectric fluorine plasma comprises the following steps:
cleaning the wafer;
performing electron cyclotron resonance-fluorine plasma treatment on the surface of the cleaned wafer;
putting the mixture into an oxidation furnace for oxidation, wherein the oxidation temperature is not more than 1200 ℃.
Further, the performing electron cyclotron resonance-fluorine plasma treatment on the cleaned wafer surface comprises:
the treatment time is 8min-10min, the fluorine-containing gas flow is 50ml/min-70ml/min, the treatment temperature is 400-600 ℃, and the vacuum degree of the cavity is 10-4Pa, microwave power of 500W-700W.
Further, the treatment time is 9min-10min, the fluorine-containing gas flow is 55ml/min-65ml/min, the treatment temperature is 450 ℃ -550 ℃, and the vacuum degree of the cavity is 10-4Pa, microwave power of 550W-650W.
Further, the treatment time is 9min, the fluorine-containing gas flow is 60ml/min, the treatment temperature is 500 ℃, and the vacuum degree of the cavity isIs 10-4Pa, microwave power of 600W.
Further, the oxidation in an oxidation furnace comprises:
the oxidation temperature is not more than 1200 ℃, and the oxidation time is 100min-150 min.
Further, the oxidation temperature is not more than 1100 ℃, and the oxidation time is 110min-130 min.
Further, the oxidation temperature is 1000 ℃, and the oxidation time is 120 min.
Further, the wafer comprises silicon carbide N from bottom to top+Substrate and silicon carbide N-An epitaxial layer.
Further, the wafer is cleaned by an RCA cleaning method, and the RCA cleaning method mainly comprises the following steps:
firstly, carrying out acid oxidation cleaning by using acid hydrogen peroxide containing sulfuric acid;
then alkaline oxidation cleaning is carried out by alkalescent hydrogen peroxide containing amine;
then cleaning with dilute hydrofluoric acid solution;
finally, acid oxidation cleaning is carried out by using acid hydrogen peroxide containing hydrochloric acid;
rinsing with ultrapure water in the middle of each cleaning, and finally drying with a low-boiling-point organic solvent.
The method for treating the silicon carbide gate dielectric fluorine plasma has the beneficial effects that: compared with the prior art, the method for treating the silicon carbide gate dielectric fluorine plasma carries out fluorine-containing plasma treatment before silicon carbide is subjected to dry oxygen oxidation, the treated silicon carbide can realize silicon carbide oxidation in low-temperature oxidation equipment, toxic gas and high-temperature process are effectively avoided, and SiC/SiO does not have high-temperature process2The surface dielectric has better appearance, the grid leakage current is lower, the process cost is greatly reduced, and the reliability of the grid dielectric is improved.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a silicon carbide power device comprising silicon carbide N+Substrate, silicon carbide N-An epitaxial layer and a silicon dioxide layer. The device is prepared by the methodThe gate dielectric has better appearance, lower gate leakage current and reliable work.
Detailed Description
In order to make the technical problems, technical solutions and advantageous effects to be solved by the present invention more clearly apparent, the present invention is further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention.
Referring to fig. 1 to 3, a method for forming a silicon carbide gate dielectric fluorine plasma according to the present invention will now be described. The treatment method of the silicon carbide gate dielectric fluorine plasma comprises the following steps:
step 1: cleaning the wafer;
step 2: performing electron cyclotron resonance-fluorine plasma treatment, namely electron cyclotron resonance-plasma enhanced metal organic chemical vapor deposition (ECR-pemvd), on the surface of the cleaned wafer, see fig. 2;
and step 3: and putting the silicon dioxide layer into an oxidation furnace for oxidation, wherein the oxidation temperature does not exceed 1200 ℃, and forming the silicon dioxide layer 3 as a protective layer, which is shown in figure 3.
Compared with the prior art, the method for treating the silicon carbide gate dielectric fluorine plasma adopts a fluorine-containing plasma treatment technology, the fluorine-containing plasma treatment is carried out before the dry oxygen oxidation of SiC, the treated SiC can be oxidized in common oxidation equipment, the oxidation temperature does not exceed 1200 ℃, toxic gas and high-temperature process are effectively avoided, and the SiC/SiO medium fluorine plasma treatment method has no high-temperature process2The surface dielectric appearance is better, the grid leakage current is lower, and the reliability of the grid dielectric is improved.
Therefore, the invention provides a method for processing a low-temperature SiC gate dielectric, which comprises the steps of carrying out fluorine-containing plasma processing before carrying out dry oxygen oxidation on SiC, and carrying out SiC oxidation on the processed SiC in low-temperature oxidation equipment. The method is mainly used for manufacturing a gate dielectric of the SiC MOSFET device, the SiC MOSFET device and similar devices in the field of microelectronics.
The invention has the advantages that: fluorine can be mixed with SiC/SiO by a fluorine-containing plasma treatment instead of an annealing process with toxic gases2The interface state of the interface is combined, so that the effect of reducing the density of the interface state is achieved. In addition, the SiC surface treated by the fluorine-containing gas can be oxidized in a conventional oxidation furnace, so that a high-temperature oxidation process is avoided, and the production cost is greatly reduced.
Referring to fig. 2, as an embodiment of the method for processing a silicon carbide gate dielectric fluorine plasma provided by the present invention, the performing an electron cyclotron resonance-fluorine plasma process on the surface of the cleaned wafer includes: the treatment time is 8min-10min, the fluorine-containing gas flow is 50ml/min-70ml/min, the treatment temperature is 400-600 ℃, and the vacuum degree of the cavity is 10-4Pa, microwave power of 500W-700W.
Optionally, the treatment time is 9min to 10min, the fluorine-containing gas flow is 55ml/min to 65ml/min, the treatment temperature is 450 ℃ to 550 ℃, and the vacuum degree of the cavity is 10-4Pa, microwaveThe power is 550W-650W.
Optionally, the treatment time is 9min, the fluorine-containing gas flow is 60ml/min, the treatment temperature is 500 ℃, and the vacuum degree of the cavity is 10-4Pa, microwave power of 600W.
Referring to fig. 3, as a specific embodiment of the method for processing a silicon carbide gate dielectric fluorine plasma according to the present invention, the silicon carbide gate dielectric fluorine plasma is placed in an oxidation furnace to perform an oxidation process, wherein an oxidation temperature does not exceed 1200 ℃, and an oxidation time is 100min to 150 min.
Optionally, the oxidation temperature is not more than 1100 ℃, and the oxidation time is 110min-130 min.
Optionally, the oxidation temperature is 1000 ℃ and the oxidation time is 120 min.
Referring to fig. 1, as an embodiment of the method for processing a silicon carbide gate dielectric fluorine plasma provided by the present invention, a wafer comprises silicon carbide N from bottom to top+Substrate 1 and silicon carbide N-An epitaxial layer 2.
Referring to fig. 1, as a specific embodiment of the method for processing a silicon carbide gate dielectric fluorine plasma provided by the present invention, an RCA cleaning method is adopted to clean a wafer, and the RCA cleaning method mainly includes:
firstly, carrying out acid oxidation cleaning by using acid hydrogen peroxide containing sulfuric acid;
then alkaline oxidation cleaning is carried out by alkalescent hydrogen peroxide containing amine;
then cleaning with dilute hydrofluoric acid solution;
finally, acid oxidation cleaning is carried out by using acid hydrogen peroxide containing hydrochloric acid;
rinsing with ultrapure water in the middle of each cleaning, and finally drying with a low-boiling-point organic solvent.
The method comprises standard RCA cleaning on silicon carbide epitaxial material, performing fluorine-containing plasma treatment on the surface of the SiC epitaxial material, and oxidizing in an oxidation furnace to grow SiO2A medium.
The invention provides a specific implementation mode of a method for treating a silicon carbide gate dielectric fluorine plasma, which comprises the following steps of:
step 1: subjecting the wafer to standard RCA cleaning, wherein FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of silicon carbide material, wherein 1 is silicon carbide N+Substrate, 2 is silicon carbide N-And (3) epitaxial material.
Step 2: placing the cleaned wafer on ECR fluorine plasma surface for treating for 8min-10min, wherein the fluorine-containing gas flow is 60ml/min, the treatment temperature is 500 deg.C, and the vacuum degree of the cavity is 10-4Pa, microwave power of 600W. FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a SiC material after fluorine plasma treatment.
And step 3: placing the wafer treated by the fluorine-containing plasma into an oxidation furnace for oxidation treatment at an oxidation temperature of not more than 1200 ℃ for 120min, wherein FIG. 3 is a structural schematic diagram of a silicon carbide material after oxidation, and 3 is SiO grown by oxidation2A medium.
The silicon wafer cleaning process adopts an RCA method which is a standard cleaning method of the silicon wafer in the semiconductor industry, and is not described herein again.
Referring to fig. 3, the present invention also provides a silicon carbide power device, which is prepared by the method and comprises silicon carbide N+Substrate 1, silicon carbide N-The epitaxial layer 2 and the silicon dioxide layer 3 have good appearance, the grid leakage current is low, and the work of the grid medium is reliable.
The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalents and improvements made within the spirit and principle of the present invention are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention.