WO2000041217A2 - Method and apparatus for preventing warp of clamp ring used for wafer coating apparatus - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to the processing of wafers, particularly semiconductor wafers by the vapor deposition thereon of films under high vacuum.
- the invention particularly relates to the solution of the problem of the warping of wafer clamping components, particularly wafer holder clamping rings, in the course of the processing of such wafers.
- Wafers held for the application of such coatings may be held in a horizontal orientation, facing upwardly or downwardly, or may be held in a vertical orientation facing in a horizontal direction. In all such coating processes, the wafer to be coated must be retained securely to a holder in a generally stress free state.
- wafer holders or clamps that employ resiliently supported continuous clamping rings to urge the wafer uniformly around its edge against the wafer holder have gained wide acceptance.
- Wafer holders that employ wafer clamping rings are exposed to a range of temperatures when holding a wafer in a vacuum chamber for processing. These rings are further exposed to deposition of the same materials that are being deposited onto the wafers. While each wafer is subjected to a single cycle in a processing chamber in which the temperatures may rise and fall, and where a film thickness measured in microns is deposited on the wafer, the holders, and particularly the clamping rings that urge the wafers against the holders, are exposed to a large number of cycles in each of which the temperatures are cycled from maximum to minimum and in the course of which multiple layers of coating material accumulate on the clamping ring surfaces.
- the warping of a clamping ring is typically a permanent deformation of the clamping ring that alters the way in which the ring contacts the wafer.
- the warping becomes excessive, the ring no longer adequately clamps the wafer.
- wafers can move in the holder, can be unevenly subjected to clamping forces in the holder causing breakage, or are not held in the proper position.
- the amount of warping and the number of cycles that it takes to cause excessive warping is observed to vary with different coating materials and coating processes. When the warping becomes excessive, after a number of wafers have been processed, it is necessary to replace the clamping ring with a new ring having its original design shape that will clamp the wafer uniformly around its edge.
- a primary objective of the present invention is to provide a clamping ring for clamping a semiconductor wafer to a wafer holder during the deposition of film onto the wafer that will resist warping over the course of processing a large number of wafers.
- a particular objective of the invention is to provide a wafer clamping ring that can accumulate deposited film of substantial thickness without warping to the point that cleaning or replacement of the ring is required.
- a further objective of the present invention is to provide a wafer mounting ring that will return to its original geometry after being cleaned of deposits that have built up to the degree that requires the cleaning of the ring.
- Another objective of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus by which coatings of material, for example materials such as tantalum and gold, can be deposited on a large number of wafers sequentially held by a wafer holder that employs a wafer clamping ring in processes where the deposition process subjects the ring and deposits to wide temperature variation cycles.
- a particular objective of the invention is to provide such a method and apparatus in systems where the clamping ring is supported on minimal mounting points providing limited or local conduction of heat from the ring, particularly where the process is carried out in a vacuum where heat dissipation by convection is substantially absent.
- a clamping ring is formed of a material having a coefficient of thermal expansion that is approximately equal to that of the material being deposited.
- substantially equal is meant that the coefficient of thermal expansion of the material of which the clamping ring is made is closer to the coefficient of thermal expansion of the coating material than are the coefficients of thermal expansion of alternative materials.
- the coefficient of thermal expansion of the material of which the clamping ring is made also has a high modulus of elasticity so that it distorts less when subjected to a given thermal stress.
- the material of which the ring is made also have a high coefficient of thermal conductivity so that temperature gradients, and thus thermal stresses, are lower.
- the material of which the ring is made have a high yield stress at the temperatures to which the ring is to be subjected during the deposition processes performed on wafers while held by the ring so that the ring can withstand higher thermal stress before undergoing permanent or plastic deformation.
- a clamping ring is provided that is formed essentially of molybdenum metal.
- ring is configured as an annular disc with a substantially circular opening at its center that is bounded by a continuos edge that engages the entire rim of a semiconductor wafer being held in a holder for the vapor deposition of film onto the wafer.
- the inner edge of the opening of the annular disc is circular for most of its circumference, that is, for all of the circumference of the disc except for a cord section configured to conform to the flat orientation edge of a conventional semiconductor wafer.
- the inner diameter of the disc is preferably about five centimeters less than the outside diameter of the wafers being clamped.
- a clamping ring which has mounting points spaced around the disc that provide for a balanced resilient mounting of the disc to the housing of a wafer holder and presents a substantially limited portion of the disc in contact with cooler structure to which heat could flow.
- the ring preferably includes six spring mounting points spaced around the disc which connect to springs on which the disc is mounted.
- the disc preferably also supports a set of latches, preferably three in number, by which a wafer is latched to the clamping ring.
- a clamping ring for the deposition of a film of tantalum and gold onto wafers is provided that is formed essentially of molybdenum.
- Clamping rings of other materials having coefficients of thermal expansion that match that of the film being deposited may also be used with a Ta-Ta-Au film or - 6 - with other film compositions.
- a high modulus of elasticity, high thermal conductivity and high yield strength are also preferred, and for most coating processes, non-magnetic material is also desirable.
- the number of wafers coated with a Ta-Ta-Au film is increased by a factor of 5 or 10 or more between overhauls of the chamber that are required to clean or replace the clamping ring due to excessive warping of the ring.
- rings made according to the present invention will, when cleaned of the deposits after being removed due to excessive wa ⁇ ing, return to their original flat geometries, while rings made of conventional materials such as stainless steel are found to develop a permanent deformation rendering them useless after wa ⁇ ing, even if cleaned of the deposits.
- Fig. 1 is a backside view of a wafer holder of a semiconductor wafer processing apparatus for application of the principles of the present invention.
- Fig. 2 is a disassembled perspective view of the wafer holder of Fig. 1.
- Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view, taken along line 3-3 of Fig. 1, of a latch assembly of the wafer holder of Figs. 1 and 2 in an arrangement particularly useful for wafer backside processing.
- Fig. 4 is a partially broken away perspective view of a semiconductor wafer processing apparatus of a type suitable for physical vapor deposition of a multiple layered coating upon a wafer, such as a Ta-Ta-Au multiple layered backside film deposition upon a semiconductor wafer.
- Fig. 5 is a cross-sectional diagram of a sputter coating processing
- Fig. 6 is a graph illustrating component temperatures as a function of processing time.
- Fig. 7 is a cross-sectional view similar to Fig. 3 illustrating a clamping ring
- Fig. 7A is a cross-sectional view similar to Fig. 7 illustrating the condition of a clamping ring made of stainless steel following the accumulation of a film of about 0.040 inches of tantalum.
- Fig. 7B is a cross-sectional view similar to Fig. 7A illustrating the condition of a clamping ring made of molybdenum following the accumulation of a film of about 0.040 inches of tantalum.
- wafer holder for use in physical vapor deposition systems is described in the commonly assigned and copending U.S. patent application entitled Wafer Processing Apparatus with Low Particle Generating Wafer Clamp, Serial No. 09/183,503, filed October 30, 1998, and hereby expressly incorporated by reference herein.
- An example of such a wafer holder is the wafer holder 10 illustrated in Figs. 1-3.
- Fig. 1 illustrates wafer holder 10 holding a semiconductor wafer 17 and viewed from the side of the wafer 17 that is opposite the surface of the wafer 17 that is to be processed.
- the holder 10 includes an annular housing 11 to which a wafer mounting ring 12 is resiliently attached by an array of springs that include a set of three equally angularly spaced leaf springs 13 and a set of three equally angularly spaced conical coil springs 14, arranged so that the leaf and coil springs alternate around the holder 10 and provide a balance mounting force between the ring 12 and the housing 11.
- the springs 13 and 14 function to uniformly urge the mounting ring 12 toward and against the holder 11.
- the latch assemblies 20 are configured to rotate through approximately 90° between latched positions, as illustrated in Fig. 1, and unlatched positions in which the
- latch assemblies 20 are rotated 90° from their orientations illustrated in Fig. 1, as is the latch assembly 20 illustrated in Fig. 2.
- the latch assemblies 20 are recessed into cutouts in the housing 11.
- the three latches are moved in unison between their latched and unlatched positions by a latch actuator mechanism (not shown) such as the mechanisms more particularly described in the copending and commonly assigned U.S. patent application serial no. 08/827,690, filed April 10, 1997, hereby expressly incorporated by reference herein, and in U.S. Patent No. 4,915,564 referred to below in connection with Figs. 4 and 5.
- a plurality of latches move behind the wafer to clamp the wafer between the latches and the clamping ring tabs.
- the holder 10 is mounted to a carrier or index plate 103 that rotates to sequentially move each holder 10 among the stations 111-115 of the processing machine 100.
- the holder 10 is held to the index plate by one fixed pin carried by the plate and two spring-loaded pins 22 carried by the housing 11 of the wafer holder 10, as illustrated in perspective in Fig. 2.
- the fixed pin of the plate is received by a notch 23 in the housing 11 while the spring loaded pins are received by radial recesses in the edge of an opening of the index plate 103.
- the wafer mounting ring 12 has an opening 24 therein that is slightly smaller than a wafer 17 that is to be held the holder 10 for processing, though preferably of the same shape as the wafer.
- the opening 24 is circular around most of its circumference with a flat side 29 which conforms to the orientation fiat edge of an industry standard wafer. Accordingly, the opening 24 is substantially circular.
- the diameter of the opening 24 is approximately 145 mm.
- the ring 12 has an inner annular surface 25 against which the edge of the wafer 17 rests when it is being held by the holder 10.
- the housing 11 has an opening 15 in its center that is larger than the wafer 17 that is to be held in the holder 10 for processing.
- Such a wafer 17 is inserted by a wafer transfer arm to which the wafer 17 is held by a chuck, for example a vacuum chuck, through the opening 15 until its outer edge lies in contact with the surface 25.
- the movement of the wafer 17 against the surface 25 may move the ring 12 slightly away from the housing 11 against the force exerted by the springs 13 and 14.
- the force exerted by the inner edge of the ring 24 on the outer edge of the wafer 17 is about 12 pounds.
- Each latch assembly 20 is pivotally mounted to the ring 12 at a mounting post 30 fixed to the ring 12.
- the latch assembly 20 includes a non- metallic latch body 31 pivotally mounted on the post 30 through a tungsten carbide ball bearing 32, and is biased against the mounting ring 12 by a conical spring 33 that surrounds the mounting post 30.
- the latch bodies 31 each have a pair of actuator pin receiving slots therein (not shown), equally spaced from the mounting post 30, to receive actuator pins of the actuator mechanism on a transfer arm (not shown) situated outside of the housing 101 when the holder is being loaded or unloaded at the loadlock 111.
- a pair of non- metallic rollers including a front roller 35 and a back roller 36, both rotatable about an axis 68 that is parallel to the mounting ring 12 and intersects the - 11 - centerline of the mounting post 30 approximately at a right angle.
- the back roller or rear roller 36 has a roller diameter 37 on which the roller 36 rolls in a
- the front roller 35 also has a roller diameter 39 that is of the same diameter as the roller diameter of the back roller 36.
- the roller diameter 37 of the back roller 36 is spaced on the body 31 at the same distance from the mounting post 30 as the roller diameter 39 of the front roller 35, so that the roller diameters 37,39 of the rollers 35,36 move on the same circle 38 on the back surface of the mounting ring 12.
- the front roller 35 of each latch assembly 20 has a gripping periphery 40 on the outer end of the roller 35 spaced farther from the mounting post 30 than the rolling peripheries 37,39 of the rollers 36,35.
- the gripping periphery 40 is of smaller diameter than the rolling peripheries 37,39 and, as a result, does not contact the back surface of the mounting ring 12 when the latch body 31 is rotated by the actuators to the latched position.
- the gripping periphery 40 is dimensioned to contact the back side of the wafer 17 and latch the wafer 17 between the gripping periphery 40 of the front roller 35 and the annular surface 25 on the mounting ring 12, as illustrated in Fig. 3.
- the gripping periphery 40 of the front roller 35 is an outwardly flared conical surface that is tapered so that only the outer edge contacts the wafer 17 regardless of the thickness of the wafer 17.
- the inner and outer edges of the gripping periphery 40 are rounded.
- a set of four detents is provided around the circles 38 on the back side of the mounting ring 12.
- Three of these detents including a back detent 42 and a pair of side detents 43, are the same depth and size, and of the same spherical shape and diameter as the rolling peripheries 37,39 of the back and front rollers 36,35.
- the fourth detent is a front detent 44, which is of the same spherical shape and diameter as the rolling peripheries 37,39, but is of greater depth and size. As such, the rolling periphery 39 of the front roller 35 only fully seats in the front detent 44 if there is no wafer 17 on the mounting surface 25 of the mounting ring 12.
- the gripping periphery 40 of the front roller 35 of the latches rolls onto the back surface of the wafer 17 and prevents the rolling periphery 39 from dropping into the detent 44 when the front roller 35 is centered on the detent 40.
- the front side of the wafer 17, which may have partially formed devices on the side thereof, is facing a backplane 50.
- a pair of abutting contact surfaces 47,48 is provided, as illustrated in Fig. 3.
- one surface is carried on a stop 52 extending from, for either the mounting ring 12 or the backplane 50, to hold the mounting ring 12 away from the backplane 50 and allow a gap 54 to be maintained between the wafer 17 and the backplane 50.
- a processing apparatus 100 of the type referred to above is illustrated diagrammatically in Fig. 4.
- the apparatus 100 has a vacuum tight housing 101 which encloses a plenum chamber 102 in which rotates a circular indexing plate 103.
- the index plate 103 preferably has five openings 104 therein, spaced at equal 72° angular increments around a central axis 105 on which the - 13 - plate 103 rotates.
- a resiliently mounted annular support ring 107 in the center of which is mounted one of the wafer holders 10.
- the housing 101 includes five stations 111-115, each also positioned at equal 72° angular intervals around the axis 105.
- These stations include a load lock station 111 having a load lock door 110 through which wafers 17 are loaded and unloaded into holders 10 on the plate 103 when the holder is sealed in a load lock chamber at the station 111.
- the stations also include four other processing chambers, one at each of the other stations 112-115, such as, for example, a sputter etch chamber 112, and three sputter coating chambers 113-115.
- the chambers 113-114 may include, for example, two tantalum deposition chambers 113 and 114 and one gold deposition chamber 115. This configuration is used to deposit a gold layer on the backside of wafers 17 when loaded backside first through the loadlock 111. Such wafers 17 will also subjected in other processes to processing on the frontsides thereof to coat and etch features of semiconductor devices.
- the tantalum-tantalum-gold (Ta-Ta-Au) process is described herein as an example of one process which particularly benefits from the present invention. Other processes and coatings will also benefit from the present invention.
- the configuration of sputtering chambers 113-115 of the apparatus 100 is illustrated in Fig. 5 which shows sputter coating chamber 113 in cross-section.
- Chamber 113 includes a sealed processing chamber 120 formed of the plenum chamber 102 by the clamping of the annular ring 106 that is at the station 113 between a moveable chamber closure 121 and a portion 122 of the housing 101.
- This clamping of the ring 106 positions the holder 10 that is supported in the opening of the ring 106 to bring a wafer 17 held in the holder 10 into position for processing spaced from and parallel to a sputtering target 124 of coating material.
- the coating material of which the target is made is tantalum.
- the target 124 is mounted in a cathode assembly 125 that is in turn mounted to a cathode housing 126 which seals an opening in the chamber wall 101 at the station 113.
- a plasma is generated in the vacuum of the chamber 120 and material is sputtered from the target 124 by bombardment of the target 124 with ions of gas from the plasma in the space of the chamber 120.
- the atoms and particles of tantalum sputtered from the target 124 move across the space of the chamber 120 and coat the wafer 17 on the holder 10.
- Components of the holder 10 are shielded from the deposition of sputtered coating material by a shield 130 which is attached to the housing portion 122 and surrounds the holder 10.
- the clamping ring 12 is, however, located on the side of the wafer 17 to be processed and faces the target 124. Part of the ring 12 is covered by the shield 130.
- the inner rim 18 of the ring 12 extends beyond the inner rim of the shield 130 and is thus vulnerable to deposition of coating material from the target 124.
- the cumulative thickness of coating that builds up on the inner rim of the ring 12 may be equivalent to the thicknesses of coatings deposited on - 15 - hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of wafers. This coating buildup 19 on the
- ring 12 is illustrated as coating buildup 19 in Fig. 3.
- a wafer 17 is etched in the etch chamber 112, then coated with two depositions of tantalum, one in chamber 113 and one in chamber 114, then is coated with one deposition of gold in chamber 115, then is unloaded from the holder in the loadlock chamber 111 whereupon a new wafer 17 in loaded into the same holder 20.
- the cycle time required to load, process and unload a single wafer in the apparatus 100 is about five minutes, one minute in each chamber which includes about 20 seconds to index the plate 103 to move the holders 10 from chamber to chamber.
- the retaining ring 12 is subjected to peak temperatures eventually reaching about 490°F (254°C).
- Process temperatures of the wafers 17 vary, for example, from chamber to chamber, from 365°F (185°C) in the etch chamber 112 to about 527°F (275°C) in the gold deposition chamber 115. Many components in the chamber are water cooled to about room temperature of about 68°F (20°C).
- the annular housing 11 of the holder 10, to which the springs 13,14 that support the ring 24 connect, ranges from about 68°F (20°C) to about 104°F (40°C).
- the temperatures on the shield 130 and the components of the wafer holder 10 increase from minimums when the first wafer 17 is introduced into the machine 100 for processing and increase to steady state levels after about 18 wafers or more are processed.
- Fig. 6 graphically represents the temperatures on the inner and outer edges of the shield 130, the inner and outer edges of the clamping ring 12 and the annular housing 11 of the holder 10. - 16 -
- Holders 10 have been customarily formed with the housing 11 thereof made of aluminum and the clamping ring made of stainless steel, typically SS-316 stainless steel. Heat buildup occurs on chamber components such as the clamping ring 12, particularly on the deposition surfaces around the inner edge 18 of the ring 12. Heat flow from the ring 12 is limited in the vacuum of the chamber 120 to radiation and conduction at the contact surfaces through which the ring 12 is mounted to the housing 11, at the springs 13 and 14. The heating of the clamp ring 12 has been found to subject the ring 12 to sufficient thermal stresses when used in Ta-Ta-Au deposition processes to cause permanent deformation of the clamp ring 12.
- Fig. 7 illustrates the cross-section of a clean and unstressed clamp ring 12 of SS-316 stainless steel showing an essentially planar annular ring with its inner edge 18 free of deposited coating material.
- FIG. 7A shows the cross- section of the same ring 12 after being subjected to a number of deposition cycles that elevated to ring 12 to the steady state temperatures and deposited a layer 19 of tantalum 0.040 inches thick on the inner edge 18 of the ring 12, with the ring 12 then cooled to room temperature. It is found in tests that the inner edge 18 of the clamp ring 12 wa ⁇ s toward the chamber 120 by an average amount of 0.0413 inches relative to outer edge 118 of the clamp ring 12. It is concurrently found that the tantalum layer 19 is in compression while most of the clamping ring 12 is in tension.
- the deformation mechanism is thought to be due at least in part to the differences in the thermal expansion coefficients between the deposited tantalum layer 19 and the SS-316 stainless steel of which the ring 12 is made.
- the coefficient of thermal expansion for tantalum is 3.6 x 10 "6 in/in-°F while the coefficient of thermal expansion for SS-316 is 9.6 x 10 "6 in/in-°F.
- the tantalum deposition occurs when the temperature of the ring 12 is elevated at between 460°F and 480°F, the layer 19 is essentially stress free as long as it is hot, but during the cooling down of the ring 12 and layer 19, the SS-316 of the ring 12 contracts much more than the tantalum layer 19, putting the layer 19 in compression.
- the retaining ring 12 is formed of a material having a coefficient of thermal expansion that is closer to that of tantalum than is the commonly used stainless steel material.
- the material which is preferably non-magnetic, may include materials such as titanium or molybdenum, with molybdenum being preferred. Titanium has a coefficient of thermal expansion of titanium is 5.0 x 10 "6 in/in-°F and the coefficient of thermal expansion for molybdenum is 3.0 x 10 "6 in/in-°F. With the SS-316 replaced by these materials, a similar test for the warping of the ring 12 - 18 - with a 0.040 inch layer 19 of tantalum produces a deflection of the inner edge of
- ring 12 relative to the outer edge of 0.022 for a titanium ring and -0.005 for a molybdenum ring, compared to the 0.0413 inches for an SS-316 stainless steel ring ad described above.
- the deformation of the molybdenum ring 12 is illustrated in Fig. 7B.
- the material of which the clamping ring 12 should be made by selecting a material having a coefficient of thermal expansion that is closer to that of the coating material than is the coeffecient of thermal expansion of alternative clamping rings that experience premature excessive warping.
- a material having a high coefficient of the ⁇ nal conductivity is preferred.
- the thermal conductivity of molybdenum is 84.5 Btu-ft hr-ft 2 -°F while that of SS-316 is 9.4 Btu-ft/hr-ft 2 -°F.
- a high modulus of elasticity than that of the material that experiences the undesirable warping is also desirable in that the same thermal stresses will produce less deformation.
- the modulus of elasticity of molybdenum is 47x10 6 psi while that of SS-316 is 28x10 s psi.
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