摘要:
An improved semiconductor processing is disclosed. In the manufacturing process, a semiconductor layer is formed and then undergoes photo annealing. A neutralizer is then introduced to the photoannealed semiconductor. The semiconductor thus formed demonstrates the SEL effect instead of the Staebler-Wronski effect.
摘要:
The present invention provides a method of protecting semiconductor integrated circuit from mobile ion contamination. In one embodiment a gettering agent is implanted into a dielectric layer. In an alternative embodiment a gettering agent is implanted into a photoresist layer which is ashed in an oxygen based plasma, leaving the gettering agent on the surface underlying the photoresist.
摘要:
A method for producing hyperabrupt P.+-. or N.+-. regions in a near-surface layer of a substantially defect free crystal, using solid phase epitaxy and transient annealing. The process for producing a hyperabrupt retrograde distribution of the dopant species begins with amorphizing the near-surface layer of a base crystal, and then implanting a steep retrograde distribution of the desired species into the amorphized layer, so that the retrograde distribution lies entirely within the amorphized layer, thereby avoiding channelling effects during implantation. The substantially defect-free structure of the base crystal is restored by annealing the implanted base crystal at a temperature sufficiently high to induce solid phase epitaxial regrowth on the underlying nonamorphized crystal, but at a temperature sufficiently low to avoid significant diffusion of the implanted species. The implanted species is subsequently activated by a rapid thermal annealing process, at a temperature sufficiently high to activate the implanted species, but for a very short time so that long-range diffusion does not occur. In a preferred embodiment, the implanted species is boron, BF.sub.2.sup.+, phosphorus, or arsenic in the top 0.20 micrometers of a substantially defect-free silicon base crystal, which may be in a bulk form or epitaxially deposited on an insulator substrate such as sapphire.
摘要:
The invention relates to a process for gettering semiconductor devices. A getter layer of amorphous or microcrystalline silicon is applied to the device. The so coated device is thermally treated and the getter layer is removed.
摘要:
The production of improved photoresponsive amorphous alloys and devices, such as photovoltaic, photoreceptive devices and the like; having improved wavelength threshold characteristics is made possible by adding one or more band gap increasing elements to the alloys and devices. The increasing element or elements are added at least to a portion of the active photoresponsive regions of amorphous silicon devices. One increasing element is carbon which increases the band gap from that of the materials without the increasing element incorporated therein. Other increasing elements can be used such as nitrogen. The silicon and increasing elements are concurrently combined and deposited as amorphous alloys by vapor deposition, sputtering or glow discharge decomposition. A density of states reducing element allows the band gap increasing element(s) to be added to the alloy to adjust the band gap without reducing the electronic qualities of the alloy. The compensating or altering element(s) can be added during deposition of the alloy or following deposition. The addition of the increasing element(s) to the alloys increases the band gap to a widened utilization width for a particular device to increase the photoabsorption efficiency and to thus enhance the device photoresponse. The band gap increasing element(s) can be added in varying amounts, in discrete layers or in substantially constant amounts in the alloys and devices.
摘要:
Gettered semiconductor wafers for integrated circuit device manufacture are prepared by grinding a layer of damage into the back face of the wafer to a depth of about 8-35 microns, heating the wafer to a temperature of about 800.degree.-1150.degree. C. for about 1 to 3 hours and quickly cooling the wafer to a temperature below about 600.degree. C., and polishing both sides of the wafer to form a polished, substantially damage-free front face and a smooth back face which has a residual layer of crystallographic damage to provide additional gettering during device manufacture.
摘要:
An improved semiconductor processing is disclosed. In the manufacturing process, a semiconductor layer is formed and then undergoes photo annealing. A neutralizer is then introduced to the photoannealed semiconductor. The semiconductor thus formed demonstrates the SEL effect instead of the Staebler-Wronski effect.
摘要:
A method of gettering unintentional mobile impurities starts with production of an damaged portion on the reverse side of a silicon wafer, and the silicon wafer is placed in a high temperature vacuum ambience so that the unintentional mobile impurities are firstly trapped by the damaged portion and, then, evacuated to the high temperature vacuum ambience.
摘要:
Implantation of oxygen or nitrogen in polysilicon layers to a dose above about 10.sup.15 ions/cm.sup.2 retards rapid grain boundary migration of conventional dopants such as B, P, As, Sb, and the like during dopant activation. Pre-annealing of the poly films to increase the grain size also decreases rapid grain boundary migration. The efffects can be combined by first pre-annealing and then implanting oxygen or nitrogen before introducing the dopant. It is desirable to anneal the oxygen implant before introducing the dopant to allow for oxygen diffusion to the grain surfaces where is precipitates and blocks the grain boundaries. Vertical and lateral migration of the dopants can be inhibited by placing the implanted oxygen or nitrogen between the dopant and the location desired to be kept comparatively free of dopants. When very high dopant activation temperatures are used the blocking effect of the oxygen on the grain boundaries is overwhelmed by dopant diffusion through the grains.
摘要翻译:在掺杂剂活化期间,多晶硅层中的氧或氮在约1015个离子/ cm 2以上的剂量下注入会阻止常规掺杂剂如B,P,As,Sb等的快速晶界迁移。 多晶膜的预退火以增加晶粒尺寸也降低了快速的晶界迁移。 可以通过首先进行预退火,然后在引入掺杂剂之前注入氧气或氮气来结合这些效果。 期望在引入掺杂剂之前对氧注入进行退火以允许氧扩散到沉淀的晶粒表面并阻止晶界。 可以通过将注入的氧或氮置于掺杂剂和期望保持相对不含掺杂剂的位置之间来抑制掺杂剂的垂直和横向迁移。 当使用非常高的掺杂剂活化温度时,氧对晶界的阻挡作用被通过晶粒的掺杂剂扩散所压倒。
摘要:
A method for forming N conductivity-type regions in a silicon substrate comprising ion implanting arsenic to form a region in said substrate having an arsenic atom concentration of at least 1 .times. 10.sup.-2 As atoms/total atoms in substrate, and ion implanting germanium into said substrate region. Even though the atomic radius of arsenic is very close to that of silicon -- the arsenic radius is only 0.5% smaller -- when high arsenic atom concentrations of at least 1 .times. 10.sup.-2 atoms/total atoms in the substrate are introduced in the substrate, and such high concentrations are only possible when arsenic is ion implanted, then atomic misfit dislocations will occur. The implanted germanium atoms compensate for the lattice strain in the silicon to minimize dislocations.