Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a wafer comprising a single crystalline bulk substrate of a first material and at least one epitaxial layer of a second material which has a lattice different from the lattice of the first material. The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a wafer in which a layer which is lattice-mismatched with the substrate can be grown on the substrate with a high effectiveness and high quality at a low cost. A roughening step is included for roughening the surface of the bulk substrate and a growing step is included for growing the second material on the rough surface with a reduced number of threading dislocations and an enhanced strain relaxation compared to a second material that is epitaxially grown on a polished surface.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a semiconductor substrate, in particular, a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate by providing a donor substrate and a handle substrate, forming a pattern of one or more doped regions typically inside the handle substrate, and then attaching such as by molecular bonding the donor substrate and the handle substrate to obtain a donor-handle compound.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method of treating a structure produced from semiconductor materials, wherein the structure includes a first and second substrates defining a common interface that has defects. The method includes forming a layer, called the disorganized layer, which includes the interface, in which at least a part of the crystal lattice is disorganized; and reorganizing the crystal lattice of the disorganized layer in order to force the defects back deeper into the first substrate.
Abstract:
Methods for forming a semiconductor structure are described. In an embodiment, the technique includes providing a donor wafer having a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer on the first layer and having a free surface; coimplanting two different atomic species through the free surface of the second layer to form a zone of weakness zone in the first layer; bonding the free surface of the second layer to a host wafer; and supplying energy to detach at the zone of weakness a semiconductor structure comprising the host wafer, the second layer and a portion of the first layer. Advantageously, the donor wafer includes a SiGe layer, and the co-implantation of atomic species is conducted according to implantation parameters adapted to enable a first species to form the zone of weakness in the SiGe layer, and to enable a second species to provide a concentration peak located beneath the zone of weakness in the donor wafer to thus minimize surface roughness resulting from detachment at the zone of weakness.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for transferring a thin useful layer from a donor substrate having an ordered crystalline structure to a receiver substrate. The method includes creation of a weakened zone in the donor substrate to define the layer to be transferred from the donor substrate. The crystalline structure of a surface region of the donor substrate is disturbed so as to create a disturbed superficial region within the thickness of the donor substrate, and thus define a disturbance interface between the disturbed superficial region and a subjacent region of the donor substrate for which the crystalline structure remains unchanged. Next, the donor substrate is subjected to a recrystallization annealing in order to at least partial recrystallize of the disturbed region, starting from the crystalline structure of the subjacent region of the donor substrate, and to create a zone of crystalline defects in the plane of the disturbance interface. One or several species are introduced into the thickness of the donor substrate to create the weakened zone, with the species being introduced with introduction parameters that are adjusted to introduce a maximum number of species at the zone of crystalline defects.
Abstract:
The present invention concerns a method for forming a Semiconductor-On-Insulator structure that includes a semiconductor layer of III/V material by growing a relaxed germanium layer on a donor substrate; growing at least one layer of III/V material on the layer of germanium; forming a cleaving plane in the relaxed germanium layer; transferring a cleaved part of the donor substrate to a support substrate, with the cleaved part being a part of the donor substrate cleaved at the cleaving plane that includes the at least one layer of III/V material. The present invention also concerns a germanium on III/V-On-Insulator structure, an N Field-Effect Transistor (NFET), a method for manufacturing an NFET, a P Field-Effect Transistor (PFET), and a method for manufacturing a PFET.
Abstract:
The present invention concerns a method for forming a Semiconductor-On-Insulator structure that includes a semiconductor layer of III/V material by growing a relaxed germanium layer on a donor substrate; growing at least one layer of III/V material on the layer of germanium; forming a cleaving plane in the relaxed germanium layer; transferring a cleaved part of the donor substrate to a support substrate, with the cleaved part being a part of the donor substrate cleaved at the cleaving plane that includes the at least one layer of III/V material. The present invention also concerns a germanium on III/V-On-Insulator structure, a N Field-Effect Transistor (NFET), a method for manufacturing a NFET, a P Field-Effect Transistor (PFET), and a method for manufacturing a PFET.
Abstract:
A method of fabricating a back-illuminated image sensor that includes the steps of providing a first substrate of a semiconductor layer, in particular a silicon layer, forming electronic device structures over the semiconductor layer and, only then, doping the semiconductor layer. By doing so, improved dopant profiles and electrical properties of photodiodes can be achieved such that the final product, namely an image sensor, has a better quality.
Abstract:
The present invention provides methods for the manufacture of a trench structure in a multilayer wafer that comprises a substrate, an oxide layer on the substrate and a semiconductor layer on the oxide layer. These methods include the steps of forming a trench through the semiconductor layer and the oxide layer and extending into the substrate, and of performing an anneal treatment of the formed trench such that at the inner surface of the trench some material of the semiconductor layer flows at least over a portion of the part of the oxide layer exposed at the inner surface of the trench. Substrates manufactured according to this invention are advantageous for fabricating various semiconductor devices, e.g., MOSFETs, trench capacitors, and the like.
Abstract:
A method for forming a structure is provided and includes implanting an atomic species into a donor substrate having an upper surface at a given depth relative to the upper surface to form an embrittlement zone in the donor substrate, the embrittlement zone defining a removable layer within the donor substrate. The method further includes assembling the upper surface of the donor substrate to a receiver substrate. Additionally, the method includes detaching the removable layer from the donor substrate at the embrittlement zone, thereby forming a detachment surface on the removable layer, by high temperature annealing. The high temperature annealing includes a temperature upgrade phase to a predetermined maximum temperature, maintaining the maximum temperature for a predetermined exposure duration, and a temperature downgrade phase. The maximum temperature and the exposure duration are selected so as to prevent the appearance of significant defects at the detachment surface.