A method for improving a film formation rate and forming a film having a high dry etching resistance is disclosed. The method includes forming a metal nitride layer containing the metal element and the nitrogen element by performing a predetermined number of times in a time division manner supplying a halogen-based source gas containing the metal element to the substrate and supplying a reaction gas containing the nitrogen element and reacting with the metal element to the substrate; and forming a metal carbonitride layer containing the metal element, the carbon element, and the nitrogen element by performing a predetermined number of times in a time division manner supplying an organic-based source gas containing the metal element and the carbon element to the substrate and supplying the reaction gas to the substrate.

A superconducting article includes a substrate and a superconducting metal oxide film formed on the substrate. The metal oxide film including ions of an alkali metal, ions of a transition metal, and ions of an alkaline earth metal or a rare earth metal. For instance, the metal oxide film can include Rb ions, La ions, and Cu ions. The superconducting metal oxide film can have a critical temperature for onset of superconductivity of greater than 250 K, e.g., greater than room temperature.

An object is to improve performance of a protection film for an organic EL device. A forming method of the protection film for an organic EL device includes the steps of: (a) forming an organic EL device over a flexible substrate; and (b) forming a protection film including an SiOC film so as to cover the organic EL device. Moreover, the SiOC film is formed by an ALD method using a compound containing Si and C as a material, the compound containing Si and C has at least one or more C atoms in a main chain between Si atom and Si atom, and amino groups are respectively bonded to the Si atoms on both ends of the main chain. According to this method, carbon (C) can be effectively taken into an SiO film to be formed. This SiOC film has a moisture barrier property and flexibility. Thus, it is possible to protect the organic EL device from moisture, and its bending resistance can be improved. Moreover, the degree of flexibility can be adjusted by adjusting the number of C atoms in the main chain between Si atom and Si atom.

Described herein are articles, systems and methods where a plasma resistant coating is deposited onto a surface of a porous chamber component and onto pore walls within the porous chamber component using an atomic layer deposition (ALD) process. The porous chamber component may include a porous body comprising a plurality of pores within the porous body, the plurality of pores each comprising pore walls. The porous body is permeable to a gas. The plasma resistant coating may have a thickness of about 5 nm to about 3 μm, and may protect the pore walls from erosion. The porous body with the plasma resistant coating remains permeable to the gas.

The disclosed technology generally relates to forming a titanium nitride-based thin films, and more particularly to a conformal and smooth titanium nitride-based thin films and methods of forming the same. In one aspect, a method of forming a thin film comprising one or both of TiSiN or TiAlN comprises exposing a semiconductor substrate to one or more vapor deposition cycles at a pressure in a reaction chamber greater than 1 torr, wherein a plurality of the vapor deposition cycles comprises an exposure to a titanium (Ti) precursor, an exposure to a nitrogen (N) precursor and an exposure to one or both of a silicon (Si) precursor or an aluminum (Al) precursor.

Methods of forming indium germanium zinc oxide (IGeZO) films by vapor deposition are provided. The IGeZO films may, for example, serve as a channel layer in a transistor device. In some embodiments atomic layer deposition processes for depositing IGeZO films comprise an IGeZO deposition cycle comprising alternately and sequentially contacting a substrate in a reaction space with a vapor phase indium precursor, a vapor phase germanium precursor, a vapor phase zinc precursor and an oxygen reactant. In some embodiments the ALD deposition cycle additionally comprises contacting the substrate with an additional reactant comprising one or more of NH.sub.3, N.sub.2O, NO.sub.2 and H.sub.2O.sub.2.

A material comprising a first layer of matrix material doped with a dopant metal is disclosed. The matrix material comprises a rare-earth metal, oxygen, and one or both of sulfur and selenium. In the first layer of matrix material doped with the dopant metal, the rare-earth metal has an oxidation state of +3 and the dopant metal has an oxidation state of +2. Further is disclosed a method for fabricating the material and a device comprising the material.

Methods for depositing on a surface of a substrate are disclosed. Exemplary methods include depositing a silicon oxide material using a cyclical deposition process, and reflowing the material during one or more of the step of depositing and a post-deposition anneal step. Structures including a layer of the material are also disclosed.

Methods of producing metal-containing thin films with low impurity contents on a substrate by atomic layer deposition (ALD) are provided. The methods preferably comprise contacting a substrate with alternating and sequential pulses of a metal source chemical, a second source chemical and a deposition enhancing agent. The deposition enhancing agent is preferably selected from the group consisting of hydrocarbons, hydrogen, hydrogen plasma, hydrogen radicals, silanes, germanium compounds, nitrogen compounds, and boron compounds. In some embodiments, the deposition-enhancing agent reacts with halide contaminants in the growing thin film, improving film properties.

A method of forming a metal-containing nitride film containing silicon includes: supplying a metal-containing gas into a processing container in which a substrate is accommodated; supplying a silicon-containing gas into the processing container; and supplying a nitrogen-containing gas into the processing container, wherein a series of processes, in which the supplying the metal-containing gas and the supplying the silicon-containing gas are executed n times in this order (where n is an integer of one or more) and then the supplying the nitrogen-containing gas is executed, is repeated m times in this order (where m is an integer of one or more).