SINGLE-CRYSTAL MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MELT SURFACE POSITION

    公开(公告)号:US20180266011A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-20

    申请号:US15761495

    申请日:2016-09-20

    IPC分类号: C30B15/26 C30B29/06

    CPC分类号: C30B15/26 C30B29/06

    摘要: A single-crystal manufacturing apparatus including: at least two different melt surface position measuring means for measuring a melt surface position of a material melt; controlling means for controlling the melt surface position based on the measured melt surface position; and determining means for determining whether a measurement abnormality has occurred in the melt surface position measuring means, the apparatus being characterized in that the melt surface position is measured by the plurality of melt surface position measuring means at the same time, one melt surface position measuring means adopted for control over the melt surface position is selected from the plurality of melt surface position measuring means, and the melt surface position measuring means adopted for control over the melt surface position is switched to another melt surface position measuring means when the determining means determines that a measurement abnormality has occurred in the selected melt surface measuring means.

    METHOD FOR DETERMINING FRONT AND BACK OF SINGLE-CRYSTAL WAFER

    公开(公告)号:US20180247851A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-30

    申请号:US15754410

    申请日:2016-08-18

    摘要: A method for determining front and back of a single-crystal wafer including: using, as the single-crystal wafer, one having a crystal plane which is laterally asymmetrical to a reference direction connecting a center of a cut for orientation identification formed in an end face of the single-crystal wafer with a center of the single-crystal wafer; noticing the laterally asymmetrical crystal plane, applying an X-ray to the single-crystal wafer, and detecting a diffracted X-ray to measure an angle formed between an orientation of the noticed crystal plane and the reference direction; and determining whether a surface of the single-crystal wafer is a front surface or a back surface from a value of the measured angle. Consequently, the method for determining a front and a back of a single-crystal wafer which can assuredly determine the front and the back of the single-crystal wafer and is superior in cost can be provided.

    Method for evaluating semiconductor wafer

    公开(公告)号:US10054554B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-21

    申请号:US15573058

    申请日:2016-03-09

    发明人: Masahiro Kato

    IPC分类号: G01N21/00 G01N21/95 G01N21/94

    摘要: A method for evaluating a semiconductor wafer includes detecting semiconductor wafer LPDs as an examination sample in two measurement modes, performing size classification of the LPDs, calculating a distance between detection coordinates and a relative angle in the two measurement modes, presetting determination criteria to determine each LPD as a foreign matter or killer defect in accordance with each classified size, detecting semiconductor wafer LPDs as an evaluation target in the two measurement modes, performing size classification of the LPDs as the evaluation target, calculating a distance between detection coordinates and a relative angle of the evaluation target, and classifying the LPDs detected on a surface of the evaluation target into the killer defect and the foreign mater based on a result of the calculation and the determination criteria. The method enables classifying all LPDs from which quantitative size information cannot be provided, into the killer defect and foreign matter.

    Apparatus for producing silicon single crystal

    公开(公告)号:US10036100B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-31

    申请号:US15112653

    申请日:2015-02-03

    摘要: An apparatus for producing a silicon single crystal by a Czochralski method with a chamber having a heater therein to heat a raw material and to cool the chamber by a coolant, including: measuring an inlet temperature, outlet temperature, and flow rate in a passage of the coolant to cool the chamber with flowing in the chamber; calculating a removed heat quantity from the chamber based on the measured values of the inlet temperature, outlet temperature, and flow rate; controlling heater power based on the value of the removed heat quantity. This provides an apparatus which can pull a single crystal in a crystal diameter and a crystal pulling rate closer to the target values by controlling the heater power based on a removed heat quantity from the chamber calculated by the measured values of temperatures and a flow rate of the coolant.

    Method for slicing workpiece
    46.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10029392B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-24

    申请号:US15027157

    申请日:2014-10-27

    IPC分类号: B28D5/04 B24B27/06 B28D7/02

    摘要: A method for slicing workpiece reusing a wire used for previous slicing of a workpiece to slice a subsequent workpiece by which the workpiece is pressed against a wire row and sliced, the wire row being formed of the wire spirally wound between a plurality of wire guides and travels in an axial-direction, where wire tension at the time of slicing the workpiece is set to a value in the range of 87 to 95% of wire tension in the previous slicing of the workpiece, a new wire supply amount at the time of slicing the workpiece is set to a value in the range of 125% or more of a new wire supply amount in the previous slicing of the workpiece, and the wire is reused to slice the subsequent workpiece.

    METHOD FOR PRODUCING SOI WAFER
    47.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180144975A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-24

    申请号:US15574326

    申请日:2016-03-08

    摘要: A method for producing a SOI wafer that includes implanting at least one type of gas ion selected from a hydrogen ion and a rare gas ion from a surface of a bond wafer formed of a silicon single crystal to form an ion implanted layer, bonding the ion-implanted surface of the bond wafer to a surface of a base wafer formed of a silicon single crystal through a silicon oxide film formed on the base wafer surface, delaminating the bond wafer at the ion implanted layer by performing delamination heat treatment to fabricate a SOI wafer having a buried oxide film layer and a SOI layer on the base wafer, and performing flattening heat treatment on the SOI wafer in an atmosphere containing argon gas.

    Method for evaluating a semiconductor wafer

    公开(公告)号:US09935021B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-04-03

    申请号:US14890687

    申请日:2014-04-14

    发明人: Tsuyoshi Ohtsuki

    IPC分类号: H01L21/66 H01L29/06

    摘要: A method for evaluating a semiconductor wafer including preparing a reference wafer in which contamination element and amount of contamination are known, forming a plurality of cells including p-n junctions on the reference wafer, measuring junction leakage currents in the plurality of cells on the reference wafer to acquire a distribution of the junction leakage currents of the reference wafer, associating the distribution of the junction leakage currents of the reference wafer with a contamination element, forming a plurality of cells including p-n junctions on a wafer to be measured, measuring junction leakage currents in the plurality of cells on the wafer to be measured to acquire a distribution of the junction leakage currents of the wafer to be measured, and identifying a contamination element of the wafer to be measured based on the association.