The hot rolling technology of high-performance tantalum target
Technical field
The present invention relates to the non-ferrous metallurgy technology field, particularly relate to a kind of hot rolling technology of high-performance tantalum target.
Background technology
Tantalum target is mainly used in the semiconductor coated film industry.
Physical vapor deposition (PVD) is one of technique of most critical in the semiconductor chip production process, its objective is the form of the compound of metal or metal with film deposited on silicon chip or other the substrate, and subsequently by the cooperating of the techniques such as photoetching and corrosion, finally form distribution structure complicated in the semiconductor chip.Physical vapour deposition (PVD) is finished by sputtering machine table, and sputtering target material is exactly a very important crucial consumptive material for above-mentioned technique.Common sputtering target material has high-purity Ta, also has the non-ferrous metals such as Ti, Al, Co and Cu.
Along with wafer size from the 200mm(8 inch) increase to the 300mm(12 inch), corresponding sputtering target material size must increase the basic demand that could satisfy the PVD plated film thereupon, simultaneously, live width is reduced to 90-45nm from (130-180nm), based on the electric conductivity of conductor and the matching performance of barrier layer, then sputtering target material will be to be converted into ultra-pure Cu/Ta to be from ultra-pure Al/Ti also, and the Ta target is increasing in the importance of semiconductor sputter industry, and demand is also increasing simultaneously.
In the prior art, tantalum target mainly is to adopt cold rolling or the cold-forging technique acquisition, the texture component of gained target thickness direction is inhomogeneous, up and down two aspects (100) texture that is mainly manifested in target is dominant, the centre is dominant with (111) texture, this class target can use at the low board of instructions for use, but " sputter rate that occurs when contour terminal platform uses is inhomogeneous to be unacceptable 12.
Summary of the invention
Purpose of the present invention just is to overcome the defective of above-mentioned prior art, provides a kind of texture component of target thickness direction even, the hot rolling technology of the uniform high-performance tantalum target of sputter rate when final assurance is used.
The present invention is based on following principle and designs:
The uniformity of silicon chip upper film thickness after the sputter, very important concerning final products, this depends on interior tissue and the texture orientation of tantalum target, uniform crystal particles refinement, the target that crystal grain crystalline orientation convergence is identical, in sputter, can make identical by the crystal grain sputter rate convergence of sputter, sputtered atom angular distribution track convergence is identical, will obtain like this coating of film thickness uniformity, the materials'use rate of tantalum target also is largely increased simultaneously.
For this reason, the present invention adopts following technical scheme:
A kind of hot rolling technology of high-performance tantalum target is characterized in that: at first forging blank is preheated to 900-1200 ℃, then rolling, pickling to tantalum metallic luster gets final product without assorted spot.
The rolling general working rate is controlled at 65%-85%, and rolling temperature is controlled at 800-1200 ℃.
The rolling adopts tandem rolling, and each rolling direction is for turning 45 jiaos clockwise, and the first eight pass reduction is controlled at 50%-95%, afterwards rolling to look for tolerance as main.
Every rolling 2-6 passage is melted down heating, heating-up temperature 900-1200 ℃ during the rolling.
Evenly smear the thick glass dust of 1-3mm in blank surface before the rolling.
Above-mentioned pickling is to be 5 in volume ratio: the HCl of 3:2, HF and H
2SO
4Mix acid liquor in carry out, pickling time is controlled at 5-10 minutes.
The present invention is by the rolling blank of heating rolling production high-performance tantalum target, cardinal principle is: distortion uneven distribution and shape parameter of transforming field on the rolled piece profile height have much relations, shape parameter of transforming field L(L=(R △ h)/h) (R: roller radius; △ h: drafts; H: average thickness) less, impact will become outstanding on deformation process in the outer end, and it is inner that compression can not be deep into the tantalum base, is only limited near the zone of superficial layer, and this moment, the distortion of superficial layer wanted large than central core, and metal flow speed and stress distribution are all inhomogeneous.By heating, flowability that can the Effective Raise material realizes larger rolling of shape parameter of transforming field.It is inner that rolling compression is deep into the tantalum base fully, and it is equal or slightly bigger with the superficial layer distortion to form the central core distortion, impels the slab rolling distortion to be " waist drum " shape but not " hyperbola " shape.Rolling by this method, it is the more broken thick columnar grain that carries over from last process, because this process can cause more dislocation and pile up along thick crystal boundary, further slab crystal grain is carried out even refinement, and impel crystal grain in a plurality of slide surfaces (line) slippage, for forming the γ strong-texture, subsequent heat treatment carries out the processing in early stage.The rolling blank of the high-performance of utilizing the present invention to prepare can obtain the texture component (proportion is more than 50%) that target thickness direction (100) texture is dominant, and uniformity, satisfy the high-performance tantalum target of high-end sputter base station instructions for use, compare with common tantalum target, the high-performance tantalum target has realized that not only target thickness direction (100) texture reaches the texture component more than 50%, and the texture uniformity also proposed higher requirement, thereby guaranteed that in use sputter rate is consistent.
The specific embodiment
The hot rolling technology of high-performance tantalum target of the present invention is specially:
1, forging blank is preheated to 900-1200 ℃.
2, rolling, control thickness is that the customer requirement finished product thickness adds the 2-4mm machining allowance.
1) in order to reduce the oxidation of material in the operation of rolling, smear glass dust in blank surface before rolling, glass dust is smeared and is wanted uniformity, and THICKNESS CONTROL is at 1-3mm.
2) the rolling power that always adds is controlled at 65%-95%.
Every rolling 2-6 passages need to be melted down heating when 3) rolling, and heating-up temperature is with the blank preheat temperature, namely 900-1200 ℃.
By remote sensing thermo detector Real-Time Monitoring temperature of charge, rolling temperature must not be lower than 800 ℃, is controlled at 800-1200 ℃ when 4) rolling.
5) adopt tandem rolling, each rolling direction is for turning 45 jiaos clockwise.The first eight pass reduction is controlled at 50%--75%, afterwards rolling to look for tolerance as main, with the plate thickness allowance control in 0.5mm.
3, pickling is to carry out in the mix acid liquor of hydrochloric acid, hydrofluoric acid and sulfuric acid, wherein HCl: HF:H
2SO
4=5: the 3:2(volume ratio), pickling time is controlled at 5-10 minutes, removes surface impurity, visually observes visible tantalum metallic luster and gets final product without assorted spot.