Abstract:
A deposition furnace boat includes a plurality of wells each of which is adapted to contain a solution of the material to be deposited. A slide extends across the bottoms of the wells and is adapted to carry a substrate from one well to the next. Between each pair of adjacent wells is a narrow slot extending to the surface of the slide. Epitaxial layers are deposited on the substrate by moving the slide to bring the substrate into each well in succession. While the substrate is in each well, the solution is cooled to deposit the material from the solution onto the substrate. When the slide is moved to carry the substrate from one well to the next, the substrate passes beneath the slot which is between the wells. Any of the solution which may be carried with the substrate from the one well will be drawn up into the slot by capillary action so as to prevent contamination of the solution in the next well by any carry-over solution.
Abstract:
A metal solvent is melted and a semiconductor material is added to the molten metal solvent when the metal solvent is at approximately the temperature at which the deposition is to start. When the semiconductor material is in the metal solvent long enough to allow enough of the semiconductor material to dissolve in the metal solvent to exactly saturate the metal solvent with the semiconductor material the substrate is brought into the solution. Other materials, such as conductivity modifiers and composition modifiers, may be added to each of the solutions either with the semiconductor material or during the deposition process. Apparatus comprises a boat having a plurality of spaced wells in its upper surface. A first slide for bringing a substrate into contact with molten material in the boat forms the floor of the boat wells. A second slide for adding materials (e.g. semiconductors and dopants) to molten material is spaced from the floor adjacent to but slightly below the top surface of the boat.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device including a substrate, a first body of a semiconductor material epitaxially deposted on the surface of the substrate and a second body of a semiconductor material epitaxially deposited on the first body. The first body is deposited so as to include a plurality of superimposed epitaxial layers having growth interfaces between adjacent layers so that each of the layers has fewer crystal dislocations than the adjacent layer which is closer to the substrate and the layer adjacent the second body has the fewest crystal dislocations. The second body is of a semiconductor material which has a crystal lattice which substantially matches the crystal lattice of the semiconductor material of the first body.