摘要:
A technique isdescribed for removing defects and disorder from crystalline layers and the epitaxial regrowth of such layers. The technique involves depositing short term bursts of energy over a limited spatial region of a material thereby annealing the otherwise damaged material and causing it to epitaxially regrow. Subsequent to the short term energy deposition, similar processing is sequentially effected on adjoining and overlapping regions such that a pattern is ultimately "written". This pattern forms a continuous region of essentially single crystal material.
摘要:
Crystal grain size in a material is increased by scanning the material with an appropriately directed energy beam. Short-term oscillation in the scan, and a particular temperature gradient configuration in the wake of the scan, results in growth of large-grain crystallites.
摘要:
The efficacy of dielectrically isolated device formation on a substrate is substantially enhanced through a specific set of processing steps. In particular, before silicon oxide regions, e.g., gate oxide regions, are produced, bulk polycrystalline areas are heat treated to substantially increase their polycrystalline silicon grain size.
摘要:
A method for forming a device wafer with a recyclable support by providing a wafer having first and second surfaces, with at least the first surface of the wafer comprising a semiconductor material that is suitable for receiving or forming electronic devices thereon, providing a supporting substrate having upper and lower surfaces, and providing the second surface of the wafer or the upper surface of the supporting substrate with void features in an amount sufficient to enable a connecting bond therebetween to form a construct wherein the bond is formed at an interface between the wafer and the substrate and is suitable to maintain the wafer and supporting substrate in association while forming or applying electronic devices to the first surface of the wafer, but which connecting bond is severable at the interface due to the void features to separate the substrate from the wafer so that the substrate can be reused.
摘要:
Structures useful for dielectrically isolated high voltage devices are produced utilizing a melting technique. In this technique a cavity is produced in a silicon wafer, the surface of the cavity is, for example, oxidized to form a dielectric material, and silicon is deposited onto the dielectric material so that it extends to a region where it is in contact with single crystal silicon, e.g., a portion of the wafer. The entire region of polycrystalline silicon is then melted. Upon termination of the melting energy, the polycrystalline silicon is converted into a thick region of dielectrically isolated single crystal silicon. This thick region is useful for the formation of high voltage devices.
摘要:
A multilayer wafer structure containing a silicon layer that contains at least one waveguide, an insulating layer and a layer that is lattice compatible with Group III-V compounds, with the lattice compatible layer in contact with one face of the insulating layer, and the face of the insulating layer opposite the lattice compatible layer is in contact with the silicon layer. The silicon and insulating layers contain either or both of at least one continuous cavity filled with materials such as to constitute a photodetector zone, or at least one continuous cavity filled with materials such as to constitute a light source zone.
摘要:
A multilayer wafer structure containing a silicon layer that contains at least one waveguide, an insulating layer and a layer that is lattice compatible with Group III-V compounds, with the lattice compatible layer in contact with one face of the insulating layer, and the face of the insulating layer opposite the lattice compatible layer is in contact with the silicon layer. The silicon and insulating layers contain either or both of at least one continuous cavity filled with materials such as to constitute a photodetector zone, or at least one continuous cavity filled with materials such as to constitute a light source zone.
摘要:
A method of manufacturing a wafer using a support substrate of a crystalline material. On the surface of the support substrate, a layer of a diamond is grown to form a first wafer in combination with the support substrate. A further substrate is bonded to the surface of the diamond layer, and a region of weakness is formed within the first wafer or the further substrate. Energy is then applied at the region of weakness to detach the structure into a first portion and a second portion.
摘要:
An integrated circuit comprising active and passive devices is formed in a thin slice of monocrystalline semiconductor bonded to a high resistivity polycrystalline silicon substrate. As compared with conventional integrated circuits supported on a monocrystalline substrate, circuits in monocrystalline films bonded to high resistivity polycrystalline substrates are less subject to parasitic capacitance, crosstalk and eddy currents. As compared with typical SOI wafers, the polycrystalline substrates have higher resistivity, and this resistivity is much less affected by contamination than it would be in monocrystalline substrates. Compared to silicon-on-sapphire or silicon on any other insulating material, the polycrystalline substrates are more compatible with the mechanical, thermal, and optical properties of the crystalline silicon layer.
摘要:
The present invention provides a process for locally removing at least a portion of a material layer structure in which first and second materials are provided, the second material having a higher etch rate by an activated reaction gas than the first material. The second material is disposed over at least a portion of the first material. A reaction gas flows adjacent a portion of the second material to be removed. The reaction gas is chemically reactive with at least the second material to form volatile reaction products when activated by a focused particle beam, but does not spontaneously react with the second material.The portion of the second material to be removed is irradiated with a focused particle beam. Exemplary particle beams are focused ion beams and electron beams. The focused particle beam initiates a chemical reaction between the portion of the second material and the reaction gas, forming volatile reaction products which desorb from the substrate and are removed. This technique finds particular application for removal of opaque defects on tungsten absorber x-ray masks.