摘要:
The spaces in chuck grooves 3a and 3b are evacuated to chuck the entire surface of a wafer 1 to the chuck surface of a wafer support table 3 and curve the wafer 1. A wafer 2 is horizontally opposed to the wafer 1, and the center of the wafer 2 is pressed by a press pin 6a. The centers of the two wafers 1 and 2 are contacted, and the contact portion gradually spreads to the vicinity of the periphery of a central portion 3c and takes a substantially circular shape. After that, the chuck by the chuck grooves 3a is stopped. Consequently, the wafer 1 flattens, and the entire surfaces of the wafers 1 and 2 are contacted.
摘要:
To lessen the number of steps and reduce cost in the manufacture of high-quality SOI substrate, a process for producing a semiconductor article comprises the steps of forming a porous semiconductor layer at at least one surface of a first substrate, forming a non-porous single-crystal semiconductor layer on the porous semiconductor layer, bonding the first substrate to a second substrate with the former's non-porous single-crystal semiconductor layer facing the latter in contact, to form a bonded structure, and dividing the bonded structure at the porous semiconductor layer, wherein the process further comprises the step of previously forming on the one surface of the first substrate an epitaxial silicon layer in a thickness at least n-times (n≧2) the thickness of the porous semiconductor layer.
摘要:
A semiconductor substrate comprises a plurality of substrates to be bonded, wherein a bond promotion layer into which silicon atoms are implanted is provided in an interface between the substrates to be bonded, and the substrates are bonded to each other with the interposition of the bond promotion layer.
摘要:
A process for producing a crystal comprises the step of applying crystal forming treatment on a light-transmissive substrate having a non-nucleation surface (S.sub.NDS) of a small nucleation density and a nucleation surface (S.sub.NDL) of a nucleation density (ND.sub.L) greater than the nucleation density (N.sub.DS) of said non-nucleation surface (S.sub.NDS) and formed of an amorphous material (M.sub.L) different from the material (M.sub.S) forming the non-nucleation surface (S.sub.NDS) at a small area sufficient to effect crystal growth from only a single nucleus to form a single crystal nucleus on the nucleation surface (S.sub.NDL), thereby growing a single crystal from the single nucleus, and the step of reducing the crystal defects of the crystal in the vicinity of the interface with the substrate by irradiation of light from the side of the substrate.
摘要:
A method of emitting electrons by applying a voltage between a voltage application electrode and a target to be irradiated with the electrons emitted from an electron emission electrode with a conical portion in an electron emission device. The voltage application electrode is formed to oppose the electron emission electrode so as to sandwich an insulating layer therebetween and the target. A charge of the electron emission electrode which is lost by electron emission during an electron emission operation is supplied after the electron emission operation is completed.
摘要:
There is provided a semiconductor article together with a process for producing the same which article has a plurality of semiconductor single crystal regions comprising a semiconductor single crystal region of one electroconductive type and a semiconductor single crystal region of the opposite electroconductive type on the same insulator substrate. At least the semiconductor single crystal region of one electroconductive type being provided by forming a different material which is sufficiently greater in nucleation density than the material of the insulator substrate and sufficiently fine to the extent that only one single nucleus of the semiconductor material can grow and then permitting the semiconductor material to grow around the single nucleus formed as the center.
摘要:
This disclosure enables high-productivity fabrication of semiconductor-based separation layers (made of single layer or multi-layer porous semiconductors such as porous silicon, comprising single porosity or multi-porosity layers), optical reflectors (made of multi-layer/multi-porosity porous semiconductors such as porous silicon), formation of porous semiconductor (such as porous silicon) for anti-reflection coatings, passivation layers, and multi-junction, multi-band-gap solar cells (for instance, by forming a variable band gap porous silicon emitter on a crystalline silicon thin film or wafer-based solar cell). Other applications include fabrication of MEMS separation and sacrificial layers for die detachment and MEMS device fabrication, membrane formation and shallow trench isolation (STI) porous silicon (using porous silicon formation with an optimal porosity and its subsequent oxidation). Further the disclosure is applicable to the general fields of Photovoltaics, MEMS, including sensors and actuators, stand-alone, or integrated with integrated semiconductor microelectronics, semiconductor microelectronics chips and optoelectronics.
摘要:
This disclosure enables high-productivity controlled fabrication of uniform porous semiconductor layers (made of single layer or multi-layer porous semiconductors such as porous silicon, comprising single porosity or multi-porosity layers). Some applications include fabrication of MEMS separation and sacrificial layers for die detachment and MEMS device fabrication, membrane formation and shallow trench isolation (STI) porous silicon (using porous silicon formation with an optimal porosity and its subsequent oxidation). Further, this disclosure is applicable to the general fields of photovoltaics, MEMS, including sensors and actuators, stand-alone, or integrated with integrated semiconductor microelectronics, semiconductor microelectronics chips and optoelectronics.
摘要:
This disclosure enables high-productivity fabrication of porous semiconductor layers (made of single layer or multi-layer porous semiconductors such as porous silicon, comprising single porosity or multi-porosity layers). Some applications include fabrication of MEMS separation and sacrificial layers for die detachment and MEMS device fabrication, membrane formation and shallow trench isolation (STI) porous silicon (using porous silicon formation with an optimal porosity and its subsequent oxidation). Further, this disclosure is applicable to the general fields of photovoltaics, MEMS, including sensors and actuators, stand-alone, or integrated with integrated semiconductor microelectronics, semiconductor microelectronics chips and optoelectronics.
摘要:
High productivity thin film deposition methods and tools are provided wherein a thin film semiconductor material layer with a thickness in the range of less than 1 micron to 100 microns is deposited on a plurality of wafers in a reactor. The wafers are loaded on a batch susceptor and the batch susceptor is positioned in the reactor such that a tapered gas flow space is created between the susceptor and an interior wall of the reactor. Reactant gas is then directed into the tapered gas space and over each wafer thereby improving deposition uniformity across each wafer and from wafer to wafer.