摘要:
A process for treatment of a silicon wafer to achieve therein a controlled distribution of the density of oxygen precipitate nucleation centers. In the process, one face of the wafer is shielded and the other, unshielded, face of the wafer is exposed to an atmosphere which contains nitrogen or a nitrogen compound gas and which has an essential absence of oxygen during a rapid thermal treatment at a temperature of at least about 1175.degree. C. The process generates nucleation centers which serve as sites for the growth of oxygen precipitates during a subsequent heat treatment and which have a peak density proximate the unshielded face of the wafer.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a silicon on insulator (“SOI”) structure in which the device layer is derived from a single crystal Cz silicon wafer which has an axially symmetric region which is substantially free of agglomerated intrinsic point defects. The device layer of the silicon on insulator structure is single crystal Cz silicon having an axially symmetric region which is substantially free of agglomerated intrinsic point defects.
摘要:
This invention is directed to a process for heat-treating a single crystal silicon segment to influence the profile of minority carrier recombination centers in the segment. The segment is subjected to a heat-treatment to form crystal lattice vacancies, the vacancies being formed in the bulk of the silicon. The segment is then cooled at a rate which allows some, but not all, of the crystal lattice vacancies to diffuse to the front surface to produce a segment having the desired vacancy concentration profile. Platinum atoms are then in-diffused into the silicon matrix such that the resulting platinum concentration profile is substantially related to the concentration profile of the crystal lattice vacancies.
摘要:
The present invention is directed to a process for producing a silicon wafer which, during the heat treatment cycles of essentially any arbitrary electronic device manufacturing process, may form an ideal, non-uniform depth distribution of oxygen precipitates and may additionally contain an axially symmetric region which is substantially free of agglomerated intrinsic point defects. The process either comprises exposing the wafer's front and back surfaces to different atmospheres, or thermally annealing two wafers in a face-to-face arrangement.
摘要:
The present invention is directed to a silicon wafer which, during the heat treatment cycles of essentially any arbitrary electronic device manufacturing process, may form an ideal, non-uniform depth distribution of oxygen precipitates and may additionally contain an axially symmetric region which is substantially free of agglomerated intrinsic point defects.
摘要:
A process for producing a single crystal silicon wafer comprising a front surface, a back surface, a lateral surface joining the front and back surfaces, a central axis perpendicular to the front and back surfaces, and a segment which is axially symmetric about the central axis extending substantially from the front surface to the back surface in which crystal lattice vacancies are the predominant intrinsic point defect, the segment having a radial width of at least about 25% of the radius and containing agglomerated vacancy defects and a residual concentration of crystal lattice vacancies wherein (i) the agglomerated vacancy defects have a radius of less than about 70 nm and (ii) the residual concentration of crystal lattice vacancy intrinsic point defects is less than the threshold concentration at which uncontrolled oxygen precipitation occurs upon subjecting the wafer to an oxygen precipitation heat treatment.
摘要:
A process for preparing an silicon epitaxial wafer. The wafer has a front surface having an epitaxial layer deposited thereon, a back surface, and a bulk region between the front and back surfaces, wherein the bulk region contains a concentration of oxygen precipitates. In the process, a wafer having interstitial oxygen atoms is first subjected to an oxygen precipitation heat treatment to cause the nucleation and growth of oxygen precipitates to a size sufficient to stabilize the oxygen precipitates. An epitaxial layer is then deposited on the surface of the oxygen precipitate stabilized wafer.
摘要:
A method for detecting transition metal contamination in or on equipment and fluids used or being evaluated for use in the manufacture, handling, or shipping of silicon wafers and electronic devices manufactured on silicon wafers. A contamination monitor wafer having an average minority carrier lifetime greater than about 250 microseconds is processed using one or more pieces of equipment or fluids. As part of, or subsequent to the processing step, the contamination monitor wafer is exposed to a temperature of at least 600.degree. C. and the minority carrier lifetime values of the contamination monitor wafer is thereafter determined. To insure that the recombination process is dot dominated by the effects of oxygen precipitates, the contamination monitor wafer should have an oxygen precipitate density of less than 10.sup.8 oxygen precipitates per cubic centimeter before and after being exposed to said temperature of at least 600.degree. C.