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ArticleThe journal of physical chemistry letters2025

Using a Heavy Inert Diffusion Additive for Superconformal Atomic Layer Deposition.

Arun Haridas Choolakkal, Pamburayi Mpofu, Pentti Niiranen, Jens Birch, Henrik Pedersen

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Article in The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors.

Arun Haridas ChoolakkalDepartment of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University, SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-2104-8161
Pamburayi MpofuDepartment of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University, SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-0878-9248
Pentti NiiranenDepartment of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University, SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden.
Jens BirchDepartment of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University, SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-8469-5983
Henrik PedersenDepartment of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University, SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-7171-5383

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The shrinking of device nodes increases the demand for deposition processes to seamlessly fill nanometer-scale features. Despite the precision of atomic layer deposition (ALD), it cannot deposit in a V-shaped fashion, which is characteristic of superconformal thin-film deposition. We propose a strategy for superconformal ALD by adding a heavy inert gas as a diffusion additive. We show that the step coverage in an 18:1 aspect ratio feature increased from 1 to 1.6 with the addition of Kr in an ALD process for AlN from Al(CH

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PMCPMC11891899

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