Copper film coated substrate and method of forming copper film on substrate
Abstract
Abstract A copper film coated substrate includes a substrate and a copper film formed on a surface of the substrate. The copper film has an X-ray diffraction intensity of 2.0 cps/nm or more per unit film thickness at a crystal orientation (111) face of the copper film. A crystal orientation of a copper thin film is controlled by irradiating a surface of a substrate with inert gas ions before forming a copper thin film on the substrate by a physical vapor deposition process. A copper thin film is formed by irradiating a surface of a substrate with ions, and depositing a copper thin film on the irradiated substrate. In the ion irradiating step, an ion irradiation energy for a dosage of the irradiated ions is controlled, so that crystal is greatly grown to be orientated in a direction of copper (111) face with a less dosage of the irradiated ions.
Inventors
- 👤 Akinori Ebe
- 👤 Kiyoshi Ogata
- 👤 Satoshi Nishiyama
- 👤 Naoto Kuratani
- 👤 Taizo Okazaki
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