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:
A process for the manufacture of a substrate having a top layer of a first material and an underlying layer of a second material whose lattice parameter is different from that of the first material. The process includes the steps of conducting an amorphization of the top layer to create an amorphous region in the top layer lying between an exposed surface and an amorphization interface, with that portion of the top layer below the interface being shielded from the amorphization and remaining as a crystalline structure; recrystallizing the amorphous region while also creating a network of defects at the interface, wherein the network forms a boundary for dislocations from the crystalline structure of the top layer, and containing the dislocations in the portion of the top layer that is located below the interface. Also, the substrates obtained by the method.
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:
This invention relates to a method for producing a substrate by transferring a layer of a material from a donor substrate to a support substrate, and then by removing a part of the layer of material to form the thin layer. The step of removing a part of the layer of material to form the thin layer comprises forming an amorphous layer in a part of the thin layer, and then recrystallizing the amorphous layer.
Abstract:
A method for self-supported transfer of a fine layer, in which at least one species of ions is implanted in a source-substrate at a specified depth in relation to the surface of the source-substrate. A stiffener is applied in intimate contact with the source-substrate and the source-substrate undergoes a heat treatment at a specified temperature during a specified period of time in order to create an embrittled buried area substantially at the specified depth without causing a thin layer, defined between the surface and the embrittled buried layer in relation to the remainder of the source-substrate, to become thermally detached. A controlled localized energy pulse is applied to the source-substrate in order to cause the self-supported detachment of the thin layer.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a of manufacturing a silicon dioxide layer of low roughness, that includes depositing a layer of silicon dioxide over a substrate by a low pressure chemical vapour deposition (LPCVD) process, the deposition process employing simultaneously a flow of tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS) as the source material for the film deposition and a flow of a diluant gas that it not reactive with TEOS, so that the diluant gas/TEOS flow ratio is between 0.5 and 100; and annealing the silicon dioxide layer at a temperature between 600° C. and 1200° C., for a duration between 10 minutes and 6 hours.
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:
Improved fabrication processes for manufacturing GeOI type wafers are disclosed. In an implementation, a method for fabricating a germanium on insulator wafer includes providing a source substrate having a surface, at least a layer of germanium and a weakened area. The weakened area is located at a predetermined depth in the germanium layer of the source substrate and is generally parallel to the source substrate surface. The technique also includes providing a germanium oxynitride layer in or on the source substrate, bonding the source substrate surface to a handle substrate to form a source-handle structure, and detaching the source substrate from the source-handle structure at the weakened area of the source substrate to create the germanium on insulator wafer having, as a surface, a useful layer of germanium.
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.