METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER

    公开(公告)号:US20240165765A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-23

    申请号:US18283051

    申请日:2022-03-03

    发明人: Ryo HASEGAWA

    IPC分类号: B24B9/06 B24B7/22 H01L21/02

    摘要: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor wafer, including: a chamfering step of grinding at least a periphery of a wafer to form a chamfered portion having a wafer edge portion and a wafer notch portion; a double-side polishing step; a mirror-surface chamfering step; and a mirror polishing step, wherein the mirror-surface chamfering step includes: a first mirror-surface chamfering process of polishing the wafer notch portion in the chamfered portion before the double-side polishing step; and a second mirror-surface chamfering process of polishing the wafer notch portion and the wafer edge portion after the double-side polishing step, and a polishing rate of the wafer notch portion in the second mirror-surface chamfering process is smaller than a polishing rate of the wafer notch portion in the first mirror-surface chamfering process.

    METHOD FOR EVALUATING CRYSTAL DEFECTS IN SILICON CARBIDE SINGLE CRYSTAL WAFER

    公开(公告)号:US20240142390A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-02

    申请号:US18280825

    申请日:2022-02-25

    摘要: A method for evaluating crystal defects in a silicon carbide single crystal wafer, the method including steps of: etching a silicon carbide single crystal wafer with melted KOH so that a size of an etch pit due to a threading edge dislocation is 10 to 50 μm; obtaining microscopic images by automatic photographing at a plurality of positions on a surface of the silicon carbide single crystal wafer after the etching; determining presence or absence of a defect dense part in each of all the obtained microscopic images based on a continued length of the etch pit formed by the etching; and classifying all the obtained microscopic images into microscopic images having the defect dense part and microscopic images not having the defect dense part to evaluate a dense state of crystal defects in the silicon carbide single crystal wafer.

    Method for creating wafer shape data

    公开(公告)号:US11928178B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-12

    申请号:US17268326

    申请日:2019-08-01

    发明人: Masato Ohnishi

    摘要: A wafer is prepared, and a thickness shape of the prepared wafer at each position in a radial direction is measured for each of a predetermined number of angles into which 360 degrees of a circumference around the center of the wafer are divided. The thickness shape obtained by a measuring machine for each angle is approximated with a sixth or higher order polynomial, and a function of the wafer thickness at the position in the radial direction is created. The thickness shape outputted by the measuring machine and a thickness shape outputted by the function are compared with each other, and an error on the entire surface of the wafer is confirmed to be not greater than a predetermined error. After the confirmation, information of the function for each angle is attached to the wafer as data representing the wafer shape and supplied to a user.

    SINGLE CRYSTAL MANUFACTURING APPARATUS
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240003046A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-04

    申请号:US18037802

    申请日:2021-11-01

    IPC分类号: C30B15/14 C30B29/06 C30B15/10

    CPC分类号: C30B15/14 C30B15/10 C30B29/06

    摘要: A single crystal manufacturing including: main chamber; pulling chamber; thermal shield member provided so as to face a silicon melt; rectifying cylinder provided on the thermal shield member so as to enclose the silicon single crystal being pulled up; cooling cylinder provided so as to encircle the silicon single crystal being pulled up and including an extending portion extending toward the silicon melt; and cooling auxiliary cylinder fitted to inside of the cooling cylinder. The extending portion of the cooling cylinder includes a bottom surface facing the silicon melt. The cooling auxiliary cylinder includes at least a first portion surrounding the bottom surface of the cooling cylinder and a second portion surrounding an upper end portion of the rectifying cylinder. This enables provision of the apparatus capable of manufacturing a single crystal with a carbon concentration lower than that according to the conventional technologies.

    METHOD FOR PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS FOR QUANTUM COMPUTER

    公开(公告)号:US20230276716A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-31

    申请号:US18014221

    申请日:2021-05-26

    IPC分类号: H10N60/01

    CPC分类号: H10N60/0884 H01P3/003

    摘要: A method produces a semiconductor apparatus for a quantum computer. The apparatus includes: a semiconductor substrate; a quantum computer device formed on the semiconductor substrate; and a peripheral circuit formed on the semiconductor substrate and connected to the quantum computer device. The apparatus is to be used as a quantum computer. The method includes: a step of forming the quantum computer device and the peripheral circuit on the semiconductor substrate; and a step of deactivating a carrier in the semiconductor substrate by irradiation of a particle beam to at least a formation part for the quantum computer device and a formation part for the peripheral circuit in the semiconductor substrate. The method for producing a semiconductor apparatus for a quantum computer can produce a semiconductor apparatus for a quantum computer having excellent 3HD characteristics.

    METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SOI WAFER AND SOI WAFER

    公开(公告)号:US20230268222A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-24

    申请号:US18024194

    申请日:2021-07-27

    发明人: Isao YOKOKAWA

    摘要: A method for manufacturing an SOI wafer including: a step of forming a silicon oxide film by thermal oxidation on an entire surface of a base wafer containing a dopant; and bonding a main surface of a bond wafer to a first main surface via the silicon oxide film, wherein, prior to the thermal oxidation step, a step of forming a CVD insulator film on a second main surface; and a step of forming, on the first main surface, a barrier silicon layer containing a dopant at a lower concentration than a dopant concentration of the base wafer, and in the thermal oxidation step, the barrier silicon layer is thermally oxidized to produce a barrier silicon oxide film, and in the bonding step, the bond wafer is bonded to the base wafer via the barrier silicon oxide film as a part of the silicon oxide film.