摘要:
A method of strengthening a silicon wafer in which the wafer is doped with nitrogen. A silicon wafer on which a silicon oxide film has been formed on the surface thereof is subjected to heat treatment at a high temperature of 600 to 1300°C in a gas atmosphere consisting of a nitrogen or nitrogen compound gas, thereby doping the wafer with nitrogen. Thus, the method is capable of doping a silicon wafer with nitrogen with ease. Further, the method is capable of locking a lattice strain or crystallographic defects including a slippage or a dislocation which have occurred not only during the process of growing a silicon monocrystal but also during the formation of integrated circuit devices.
摘要:
The method automatically controls the growing of a single-crystal neck portion by the CZ method. The speed of pulling up the crystal is adjusted so that the crystal diameter control deviation becomes closer to zero. Combinations of the crystal diameter control deviation ΔD being large or small and the pulling-up speed V being high or low are employed as fuzzy inference conditions. According to such conditions, a correction value for the power supplied to a melt heater 18 is calculated, based on the fuzzy inference.
摘要:
Used in an apparatus for pulling a Si single crystal 36 up from Si molten liquid 35 by using the Czochralski method. In order to produce a Si single crystal having a desired squality, the diameter of the Si single crystal is4controlled by controlling the pull-up speed of the Si single crystal, the sum of a reference temperature set value T B (X), which is a function of a pull-up distance X of the Si single crystal from a certain growth point, and a value proportional to a diameter deviation ΔD is regarded as a reference temperature, and electric power supplied to a heater (24) for heating the Si molten liquid is controlled so that the temperature of the vicinity of the heater is equal to the reference temperature. In order to easily and quickly set the temperature pattern, various operational data in producing a Si single crystal is automatically collected and stored in a magnetic memory disk (82) corresponding to quality data of the Si single crystals which have been produced, data similar to the quality of a Si single crystal to be produced is retrieved from the stored data, an operator selects the most similar data, the selected operational data is displayed in a display unit (80), and the operator sets the reference temperature pattern T B (X) on a screen of the display unit by using a mouse (78).
摘要:
A method of strengthening a silicon wafer in which the wafer is doped with nitrogen. A silicon wafer on which a silicon oxide film has been formed on the surface thereof is subjected to heat treatment at a high temperature of 600 to 1300°C in a gas atmosphere consisting of a nitrogen or nitrogen compound gas, thereby doping the wafer with nitrogen. Thus, the method is capable of doping a silicon wafer with nitrogen with ease. Further, the method is capable of locking a lattice strain or crystallographic defects including a slippage or a dislocation which have occurred not only during the process of growing a silicon monocrystal but also during the formation of integrated circuit devices.
摘要:
A novel device for producing a single crystal by the CZ or MCZ method is provided, which comprising a crucible for containing silicon melt therein, a wire reel and a wire for pulling a single crystal, a motor and a rotation shaft for rotating the crucible, a speed change device being inserted between the motor and the rotation shaft, and, if necessary, a magnetic field generator, by which the magnetic field is applied to the melt. According to the device for producing a single crystal, the rotation accuracy of a crucible can be improved, so that the concentrations of impurities in the pulled single crystal can be highly precisely controlled.
摘要:
Used in a Si single crystal pulling apparatus using the Czochralski method, to lower the concentration of oxygen in the Si single crystal without increasing the production cost and to make the concentration substantially even all over the Si single crystal. The crystal 36 is produced by disposing a straightening tube 40 concentrically with and above a quartz crucible 22, letting inert gas flow down through the tube, dipping a seed crystal in Si molten liquid 28 in the quartz crucible and then pulling the seed crystal up. The concentration of oxygen in the Si single crystal is adjusted by controlling the distance H between the surface of the Si molten liquid and the bottom end of the straightening tube in accordance with the pull-up length Y or the pull-up time from a certain growth point of the crystal.