Selection Criteria for Small-Molecule Inhibitors in Area-Selective Atomic Layer Deposition: Fundamental Surface Chemistry Considerations

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Author(s)Mameli, Alfredo
Author(s)Teplyakov, Andrew V.
Date Accessioned2023-10-05T19:14:52Z
Date Available2023-10-05T19:14:52Z
Publication Date2023-08-01
DescriptionThis article was originally published in Accounts of Chemical Research. The version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.accounts.3c00221. © 2023 American Chemical Society. This article will be embargoed until 08/01/2024.
AbstractConspectus Atomically precise and highly selective surface reactions are required for advancing microelectronics fabrication. Advanced atomic processing approaches make use of small molecule inhibitors (SMI) to enable selectivity between growth and nongrowth surfaces. The selectivity between growth and nongrowth substrates is eventually lost for any known combinations, because of defects, new defect formation, and simply because of a Boltzmann distribution of molecular reactivities on surfaces. The selectivity can then be restored by introducing etch-back correction steps. Most recent developments combine the design of highly selective combinations of growth and nongrowth substrates with atomically precise cycles of deposition and etching methods. At that point, a single additional step is often used to passivate the unwanted defects or selected surface chemical sites with SMI. This step is designed to chemically passivate the reactive groups and defects of the nongrowth substrates both before and/or during the deposition of material onto the growth substrate. This approach requires applications of the fundamental knowledge of surface chemistry and reactivity of small molecules to effectively block deposition on nongrowth substrates and to not substantially affect deposition on the growth surface. Thus, many of the concepts of classical surface chemistry that had been developed over several decades can be applied to design such small molecule inhibitors. This article will outline the approaches for such design. This is especially important now, since the ever-increasing number of applications of this concept still rely on trial-and-error approaches in selecting SMI. At the same time, there is a very substantial breadth of surface chemical reactivity analysis that can be put to use in this process that will relate the effectiveness of a potential SMI on any combination of surfaces with the following: selectivity; chemical stability of a molecule on a specific surface; volatility; steric hindrance, geometry, packing, and precursor of choice for material deposition; strength of adsorption as detailed by interdisplacement to determine the most stable SMI; fast attachment reaction kinetics; and minimal number of various binding modes. The down-selection of the SMI from the list of chemicals that satisfy the preliminary criteria will be decided based on optimal combinations of these requirements. Although the specifics of SMI selection are always affected by the complexity of the overall process and will depend drastically on the materials and devices that are or will be needed, this roadmap will assist in choosing the potential effective SMIs based on quite an exhaustive set of “SMI families” in connection with general types of target surfaces.
SponsorWe would like to thank Professors Robert Ameloot, Stacey Bent, Annelies Delabie, Robert A. DiStasio, James R. Engstrom, Woo-Hee Kim, Adrie Mackus, and Dr. Silvia Armini for allowing us to use figures from their published works. A.V.T. acknowledges financial support from the National Science Foundation (Nos. CMMI-2035154 and CMMI-2225900) for making this article possible.
CitationMameli, Alfredo, and Andrew V. Teplyakov. “Selection Criteria for Small-Molecule Inhibitors in Area-Selective Atomic Layer Deposition: Fundamental Surface Chemistry Considerations.” Accounts of Chemical Research 56, no. 15 (August 1, 2023): 2084–95. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.accounts.3c00221.
ISSN1520-4898
URLhttps://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/33350
Languageen_US
PublisherAccounts of Chemical Research
TitleSelection Criteria for Small-Molecule Inhibitors in Area-Selective Atomic Layer Deposition: Fundamental Surface Chemistry Considerations
TypeArticle
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