摘要:
A method for controlling the thickness of a single crystal thin-film silicon layer bonded on a dielectric substrate in a SOI substrate thereby effecting conversion of said single crystal silicon layer to a thin film is disclosed. To be more precise, said method comprises selectively and hypothetically dividing the entire surface of said single crystal silicon layer destined to undergo a chemical vapor-phase corrosion reaction for the sake of said conversion into necessary minute sections and, at the sametime, taking preparatory measurement of the thickness of said single crystal silicon layer in each of said minute sections, and effecting on each of said minute sections said conversion to a thin film by a chemical vapor-phase corrosion reaction adjusted in accordance with the measured thickness of layer. The conversion to a thin film is attained with the dispersion of thickness of the single crystal silicon layer controlled with high accuracy.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for uniformizing a bonded SOI (silicon on insulator) thin film layer by the reaction of chemical vapor-phase corrosion excited by the ultraviolet light, which effect the measurement of film thickness efficiently and conveniently and consequently attaining highly accurate control of the dispersion of thickness of the thin film layer without requiring the substrate to be removed from the reaction vessel for chemical vapor-phase corrosion on each occasion of the measurement or necessitating installation of a mechanism for alteration of the position of measurement inside or outside the reaction vessel are disclosed. The measurement of film thickness is carried out by keeping observation of interference fringes due to distribution of thickness of the film layer.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for uniformizing a bonded SOI (silicon on insulator) thin film layer by the reaction of chemical vapor-phase corrosion excited by the ultraviolet light, which effect the measurement of film thickness efficiently and conveniently and consequently attaining highly accurate control of the dispersion of thickness of the thin film layer without requiring the substrate to be removed from the reaction vessel for chemical vapor-phase corrosion on each occasion of the measurement or necessitating installation of a mechanism for alteration of the position of measurement inside or outside the reaction vessel are disclosed. The measurement of film thickness is carried out by keeping observation of interference fringes due to distribution of thickness of the film layer.
摘要:
A thin Silicon film On Insulator (SOI) material fabricating method which is capable of providing a very high thickness uniformity of the silicon film, a process simplification and a considerable reduction of processing cost is disclosed, in which a silicon oxide film is formed on one or both of a p-type silicon bond wafer and a silicon base wafer, then the two wafers are bonded together through the silicon oxide film, subsequently a fixed positive charge is induced in the silicon oxide film to form a n-type inversion layer in the p-type silicon bond wafer adjacent to an interface between the p-type silicon bond wafer and the silicon oxide film layer, and thereafter a chemical etching is effected while applying a positive voltage to the p-type silicon bond wafer so that an etch-stop is made at an interface between a depletion layer including the n-type inversion layer and the p-type layer.
摘要:
The present invention provides a semiconductor substrate which is formed by bonding wafers together by heat treatment without causing the substrate to be thermally damaged to have thermal strain, separation, cracks, etc. due to the difference in the thermal expansion coefficient of the wafers, and particularly a semiconductor substrate having an SOI structure which can provide a silicon film thin enough to allow various integrated circuits or TFT-LCD to be formed In the present invention, after wafers are bonded temporarily in a low temperature range, one of the wafers is made thin by chemical treatment, then the wafers were bonded fully by heat treatment in a temperature range (where the thermal expansion coefficient of the wafer are not affected) higher than the above low temperature range, and then said one wafer can be made thinner by mechanical grinding or polishing mechano-chemically. Thus according to the present invention, even if a semiconductor substrate is formed by sticking a silicon wafer and a quartz wafer together, damages that will be caused thermally due to thermal expansion can be prevented and a film which is made thin enough required for forming various integrated circuits or TFT-LCD or the like can be easily obtained.
摘要:
The present invention provides a method of making a semiconductor substrate having an SOI structure by temporarily bonding together two wafers having different thermal expansion coefficients to allow thinning of at least one of the wafers by chemical and/or mechanical treatment(s) to reduce the risk of strain, separation, cracks to the wafers followed by one or more heat treating steps to fully bond the wafers together. The method can produce semiconductor substrate having an SOI structure which can provide a silicon layer thin enough to allow various integrated circuits, or TFL-LCD or the like to be formed.
摘要:
A Si single crystal thin film is classified according to the thickness into several areas such that the areas where the thin film is thicker is made oxide layer-free and the areas where the thin film is thinner is covered with oxide layer. Then, oxidation is conducted so that the thicker the thin film the lower the Si interface becomes, utilizing the different growth rates of the oxide layer in these areas. The thin film surface with a resulting staircase configuration is then leveled by the subsequent polishing treatment. In other method, oxide layer is formed in such way that the areas with a thicker thin film thickness will have a thinner oxide layer and the areas with a thinner thin film thickness will have a thicker oxide layer, and oxidation is conducted such that the thicker the thin film the lower the Si interface becomes.
摘要:
The present invention is a single-crystal manufacturing apparatus based on the Czochralski method having a main chamber configured to accommodate hot zone components including a crucible, and a pull chamber configured to accommodate and take out a single crystal pulled from a raw material melt, the apparatus further comprising a multipurpose chamber interchangeable with the pull chamber, wherein a heating means for heating a raw material charged into the crucible and a cooling means for cooling the hot zone components after pulling the single crystal are placeable in the multipurpose chamber respectively. As a result, there is provided a single-crystal manufacturing apparatus that enables, in manufacture of a single crystal of a large diameter, e.g., approximately 200 mm or more, an operating rate of the single-crystal manufacturing apparatus and productivity of the single crystal to be improved.
摘要:
An objective of the present invention is to provide a novel NDM (New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase) inhibitor that functions as a drug for restoring the antibacterial activity of β-lactam antibiotics that have been inactivated as a result of decomposition by NDM. According to the present invention, there is provided an NDM inhibitor contains a compound represented by general formula (I):
摘要:
A single-crystal manufacturing apparatus comprises a chamber, a crucible in the chamber, a heater arranged around the crucible, a lifting mechanism for lifting a seed crystal, and a guide passage for the seed crystal and a grown single crystal. In the single-crystal manufacturing apparatus, a material polycrystal contained the crucible is melted by a heater, and the seed crystal is made to contact the molten polycrystal and is lifted. The single-crystal manufacturing apparatus comprises a cylindrical quartz tube having a curved bottom portion, and a dome-shaped quartz plate. The curved bottom portion faces the crucible from the upper portion of the chamber through the guide passage. The quartz plate is arranged to enclose the quartz tube. The quartz tube has a reflecting structure for reflecting a heat ray from at least its bottom portion whereas the quartz plate has a reflecting structure for reflecting the heat ray to the crucible.