摘要:
A method for simulating changes to the topography of a workpiece, e.g. a semiconductor wafer, as it undergoes process steps. The method may be used to simulated isotropic or anisotropic deposition or etch process steps. A solids modeling system is used to define and deform material solids. Material solids represent the different materials on a workpiece. A plurality of trajectory solids are constructed to cause the deformation of the material solids. Deformation of a material solid is accomplished through the performance of boolean operations between the material solid and one or more trajectory solids. A characteristic of a trajectory solid, e.g. a radius or height, relates to the rate of etch or deposition for the particular process step. The method of construction of trajectory solids in the present invention enables simulation of spatially varying process steps, avoids the creation of invalid self-intersecting surfaces and minimizes the creation of small edges that lead to irregular surfaces.
摘要:
In a three-dimensional (3-D) topography simulator, a method for removing sources of particle flux because of neighboring topology, for a point on a workpiece undergoing a deposition or etch process step. The method is practiced in a Generalized Solids Modeling system that utilizes a boundary representation model for representing a workpiece as one or more material object solids. For any given point on the 3-D structure, the neighboring topography forms a complex shadowing mask with respect to sources of particle flux, thus making analytical determination of visible sources of incoming particle flux difficult. The method is comprised generally of the steps of: defining a numerical mesh in a space over a surface of the workpiece; specifying an intensity of incident flux for each mesh point, identifying a set of mesh points defining a visible range of mesh points with respect to a particular target point and identifying mesh points in said set of mesh points that are obscured by neighboring topology.
摘要:
An optical circuit including a semiconductor substrate; an optical waveguide formed in or on the substrate; and an optical detector formed in or on the semiconductor substrate, wherein the optical detector is aligned with the optical waveguide so as to receive an optical signal from the optical waveguide during operation, and wherein the optical detector has: a first electrode; a second electrode; and an intermediate layer between the first and second electrodes, the intermediate layer being made of a semiconductor material characterized by a conduction band, a valence band, and deep level energy states introduced between the conduction and valence bands.
摘要:
A method of fabricating a detector that involves: forming a trench in a substrate, the substrate having an upper surface; forming a first doped semiconductor layer on the substrate and in the trench; forming a second semiconductor layer on the first doped semiconductor layer and extending into the trench, the second semiconductor layer having a conductivity that is less than the conductivity of the first doped semiconductor layer; forming a third doped semiconductor layer on the second semiconductor layer and extending into the trench; removing portions of the first, second and third layers that are above a plane defined by the surface of the substrate to produce an upper, substantially planar surface and expose an upper end of the first doped semiconductor layer in the trench; forming a first electrical contact to the first semiconductor doped layer; and forming a second electrical contact to the third semiconductor doped layer.
摘要:
A method of fabricating a waveguide mirror that involves etching a trench in a silicon substrate; depositing a film (e.g. silicon dioxide) over the surface of the silicon substrate and into the trench; ion etching the film to remove at least some of the deposited silicon dioxide and to leave a facet of film in inside corners of the trench; depositing a layer of SiGe over the substrate to fill up the trench; and planarizing the deposited SiGe to remove the SiGe from above the level of the trench.
摘要:
A method for accurately calculating the movement of a vertex in a three-dimensional (3-D) topography simulator. The method is particularly suited for calculating vertex movement for cases in which etch/deposition rate depends on the angle between the surface normal and the vertical direction. A workpiece is represented as a collection of material solids. Each of the material solids has a boundary model representation. The method of the present invention is comprised primarily of the steps of: advancing edges and surface planes adjacent to the vertex, creating a set of 2-D solutions by clipping with pairs of adjacent surface planes; creating a set of combined 2-D solutions by clipping invalid sections of combined 2-D solutions; construct an arbitrary vertical plane that intersects the surface at the vertex point; constructing vertex trajectories for the vertex to be moved; and clipping constructed vertex trajectories at intersections of created surface and the constructed vertical plane.
摘要:
A method of fabricating a detector, the method including forming an island of detector core material on a substrate, the island having a horizontally oriented top end, a vertically oriented first sidewall, and a vertically oriented second sidewall that is opposite said first sidewall; implanting a first dopant into the first sidewall to form a first conductive region that has a top end that is part of the top end of the island; implanting a second dopant into the second sidewall to form a second conductive region that has a top end that is part of the top end of the island; fabricating a first electrical connection to the top end of the first conductive region; and fabricating a second electrical connection to the top end of the second conductive region.
摘要:
A method of fabricating on optical detector, the method including providing a substrate that includes an optical waveguide formed therein and having a surface for fabricating microelectronic circuitry thereon; fabricating microelectronic circuitry on the substrate, the fabricating involving a plurality of sequential process phases; after a selected one of the plurality of sequential process phases has occurred and before the next process phase after the selected one of the plurality of process phases begins, fabricating an optical detector within the optical waveguide; and after fabricating the optical detector in the waveguide, completing the plurality of sequential process phases for fabricating the microelectronic circuitry.
摘要:
Substantially sharp corners for optical waveguides in integrated optical devices, photonic crystal devices, or for micro-devices, can be fabricated. Non-sharp corners such as rounded corners, are first formed using lithographic patterning and vertical etching. Next, isotropic etching is used to sharpen the rounded corners. A monitor can be used to determine if the rounded corners have been sufficiently sharpened by the isotropic etching.
摘要:
A method including determining a first flare convolution based on a feature density of projected structures on a substrate layout, determining a second flare convolution based on a mask for a given substrate layout, determining a system flare variation by summing the first flare convolution and the second flare convolution, and determining a critical dimension variation based on the system flare variation.