摘要:
Hetero-semiconductor structures possessing an SOI structure containing a silicon-germanium mixed crystal are produced at a low cost and high productivity. The semiconductor substrates comprise a first layer formed of silicon having germanium added thereto, a second layer formed of an oxide and adjoined to the first layer, and a third layer derived from the same source as the first layer, but having an enriched content of germanium as a result of thermal oxidation and thinning of the third layer.
摘要:
A silicon semiconductor substrate has a structure possessing oxygen precipitate defects fated to form gettering sites in a high density directly below the defect-free region of void type crystals. The silicon semiconductor substrate is formed by heat-treating a silicon semiconductor substrate derived from a silicon single crystal grown by the Czochralski method or the magnetic field-applied Czochralski method and characterized by satisfying the relational expression (Oi DZ)−(COP DZ)≦10 μm wherein Oi DZ denotes a defect-free zone of oxygen precipitate crystal defects and COP DZ denotes a region devoid of a void type defect measuring not less than 0.11 μm in size, and having not less than 5×108 oxygen precipitate crystal defects per cm3. The method for making the substrate comprises the steps of deriving a silicon semiconductor substrate from a silicon single crystal grown by the Czochralski method or the magnetic field-applied Czochralski method using molten silicon containing not less than 5×1017 atoms and not more than 1.5×1019 atoms of nitrogen per cm3 and heat-treating the silicon semiconductor substrate in a non-oxidizing atmosphere at a highest final temperature of not lower than 1150° C. for not less than one hour.
摘要翻译:硅半导体衬底具有具有氧沉淀缺陷的结构,以形成直接位于空隙型晶体的无缺陷区域的高密度的吸气位点。 硅半导体衬底通过对由Czochralski法生长的硅单晶衍生的硅半导体衬底或施加磁场的Czochralski法进行热处理而形成,其特征在于满足关系式(Oi DZ) - (COP DZ) =10μm,其中Oi DZ表示氧沉淀晶体缺陷的无缺陷区,COP DZ表示没有测量尺寸不小于0.11μm的空隙型缺陷的区域,并且具有不小于5×10 8个/ SUP>氧沉淀结晶缺陷/ cm 3。 制造衬底的方法包括以下步骤:使用通过Czochralski法生长的硅单晶或使用含有不少于5×10 17个原子的熔融硅的磁场施加的Czochralski法衍生硅半导体衬底 并且不超过1.5×10 19个氮原子/ cm 3,并且在非氧化性气氛中在不低于最高最终温度的条件下热处理硅半导体衬底 1150℃不少于1小时。
摘要:
The present invention provides a wafer holder, a wafer support member, a wafer boat and a heat treatment furnace, which are capable of sufficiently suppressing slip dislocations, without lowering productivity and at low cost, in the high temperature heat treatment of silicon wafers, and said wafer holder is characterized in that: the wafer holder is composed of a wafer support plate and three or more wafer support members mounted on said wafer support plate, each of the wafer support members having a wafer support portion or more; at least one of said wafer support members is a tilting wafer support member which has a plurality of upward-convex wafer support portions on the upper surface and is tiltable with respect to said wafer support plate; and the wafer is supported by at least four wafer support portions.
摘要:
This invention is directed to a method for the production of a dislocation-free silicon single crystal by the Czochralski method. This method attains growth of the main body part of the dislocation-free silicon single crystal by immersing a seed crystal in a melt of silicon and then pulling the seed crystal without recourse to the necking. The seed crystal thus used is a dislocation-free silicon single crystal. The horizontal maximum length of the part of the seed crystal being immersed in the melt at the time of completing the immersion of the seed crystal in the melt is not less than 5 mm. The immersing rate of the seed crystal in the melt is not more than 2.8 mm/min and the part of the seed crystal to be immersed in the melt is a crystal as grown.
摘要:
When a Si single crystal 8 is pulled up from a melt 6 received in a crucible 2, the state of eddy flows generated in the melt 6 is judged from the temperature distribution of the melt at the surface. According to the result of judgement, the gas, i.e. N.sub.2, Xe or Kr, which causes extraoridnary deviation in the density of a melt 6 is added to an atmospheric gas, so as to keep the eddy flows under unstabilized condition. The effect of said gas is typical in the case of crystal growth from the melt to which a dopant such as Ca, Sb, Al, As or In having the effect to suppress the extraordinary deviation in the density is added. Since the single crystal is pulled up from the melt held in the temperature-controlled condition at the surface, impurity distribution and oxygen distribution are made uniform along the direction of crystal growth. A single crystal obtained in this way has highly-stabilized quality.
摘要:
A SOI substrate of high quality which allows LSI to be formed thereon in an improved yield and realizes excellent electric properties and a method for the production thereof are provided. The SOI substrate is obtained by forming an embedded oxide layer on a silicon single crystal substrate and forming a SOI layer for the formation of a device on the embedded oxide layer and is characterized by the SOI layer containing pit-like defects at a density of not more than 5 cm−2 or the embedded oxide layer containing pinhole defects at a density of less than one piece/cm2.
摘要:
The epitaxial layer defects generated from voids of a silicon substrate wafer containing added hydrogen are suppressed by a method for producing an epitaxial wafer by: growing a silicon crystal by the Czochralski method comprising adding hydrogen and nitrogen to a silicon melt and growing from the silicon melt a silicon crystal having a nitrogen concentration of from 3×1013 cm−3 to 3×1014 cm−3, preparing a silicon substrate by machining the silicon crystal, and forming an epitaxial layer at the surface of the silicon substrate.
摘要:
The Czochralski method is used for producing p−-doped and epitaxially coated semiconductor wafers from silicon, wherein a silicon single crystal is pulled, and during the pulling is doped with boron, hydrogen and nitrogen, and the single crystal thus obtained is processed to form p−-doped semiconductor wafers which are epitaxially coated.
摘要:
The Czochralski method is used for producing p−-doped and epitaxially coated semiconductor wafers from silicon, wherein a silicon single crystal is pulled, and during the pulling is doped with boron, hydrogen and nitrogen, and the single crystal thus obtained is processed to form p−-doped semiconductor wafers which are epitaxially coated.
摘要:
When a B or P-doped Si single crystal is pulled up from a B or P-doped melt by the Czochralski method, an element such as Ga, Sb or In having the effect to reduce the heat expansion coefficient of said melt at a temperature near the melting point is added to said melt. The additive element stabilizes the temperature condition of crystal growth so as to control the generation of eddy flows just below the interface of crystal growth. When a Ga or Sb-doped Si single crystal is pulled up from a Ga or Sb-doped melt, an element such as B or P having the effect to increase the heat expansion coefficient of said melt at a temperature near the melting point is added. The agitation of the melt just below the interface of crystal growth is accelerated by the addition of B or P, so as to assure the growth of a Si single crystal from the melt having impurity distribution made uniform along the radial direction. Accordingly, a Si single crystal is formed having a uniform impurity distribution along its lengthwise or radial direction.