A method and apparatus for vaporizing liquid source materials, where such
vaporized source materials are supplied to a deposition tool such as
Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) apparatus, and more particularly in such
areas as Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) and Atomic Layer
Deposition (ALD) applications, is disclosed. The method disclosed herein
involves with increasing the temperature and the pressure of given liquid
source materials to a high level of temperature and pressure states while
maintaining the source materials in a liquid state, and then exposing the
liquid source material instantaneously to a low pressure while maintaining
the temperature of the liquid source material at the high temperature.
Such sudden exposure to a low pressure makes the liquid source material
vaporized, so that such vaporized source material can be supplied to such
deposition tools as Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) and
Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) apparatus. The structure and the operation
of the apparatus that vaporizes liquid source materials in accordance with
the present invention are also disclosed.