Abstract:
Methods for assessing the quality of a semiconductor structure having a charge trapping layer (CTL) to, for example, determine if the structure is suitable for use as a radiofrequency device are disclosed. Embodiments of the assessing method may involve measuring an electrostatic parameter at an initial state and at an excited state in which charge carriers are generated.
Abstract:
A cost effective process flow for manufacturing semiconductor on insulator structures is parallel is provided. Each of the multiple semiconductor-on-insulator composite structures prepared in parallel comprises a charge trapping layer (CTL).
Abstract:
A semiconductor on insulator multilayer structure is provided. The multilayer comprises a high resistivity single crystal semiconductor handle substrate, a textured oxide, nitride, or oxynitride layer, a polycrystalline silicon layer, a dielectric layer, and a single crystal semiconductor device layer. The multilayer structure is prepared in a manner that reduces wafer bow.
Abstract:
A method performs phase shift interferometry to detect irregularities of a surface of a wafer after the wafer has been placed into an interferometer and while the wafer is vibrating. Additionally, a system and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium have computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for performing phase shift interferometry to detect irregularities of a surface of a wafer after the wafer has been placed into an interferometer and while the wafer is vibrating.
Abstract:
A multilayer composite structure and a method of preparing a multilayer composite structure are provided. The multilayer composite structure comprises a semiconductor handle substrate having a minimum bulk region resistivity of at least about 500 ohm-cm; a semiconductor nitride layer in contact with the semiconductor handle substrate, the semiconductor nitride layer selected from the group consisting of aluminum nitride, boron nitride, indium nitride, gallium nitride, aluminum gallium nitride, aluminum gallium indium nitride, aluminum gallium indium boron nitride, and combinations thereof; a dielectric layer in contact with the semiconductor nitride layer; and a semiconductor device layer in contact with the dielectric layer.
Abstract:
A high resistivity single crystal semiconductor handle structure for use in the manufacture of SOI structure is provided. The handle structure comprises an intermediate semiconductor layer between the handle substrate and the buried oxide layer. The intermediate semiconductor layer comprises a polycrystalline, amorphous, nanocrystalline, or monocrystalline structure and comprises a material selected from the group consisting of Si 1-x Ge x , Si 1-x C x , Si 1-x-y Ge x Sn y , Si 1-x-y-z Ge x Sn y C z , Ge 1-x Sn x , group IIIA-nitrides, semiconductor oxides, and any combination thereof.
Abstract:
A method is provided for preparing a semiconductor-on-insulator structure comprising a flowable insulating layer or a reflowable insulating layer.
Abstract:
The disclosed method is suitable for producing a SiGe-on-insulator structure. According to some embodiments of the method, a layer comprising SiGe is deposited on silicon-on-insulator substrate comprising an ultra-thin silicon top layer. In some embodiments, the layer comprising SiGe is deposited by epitaxial deposition. In some embodiments, the SiGe epitaxial layer is high quality since it is produced by engineering the strain relaxation at the Si/buried oxide interface. In some embodiments, the method accomplishes elastic strain relaxation of SiGe grown on a few monolayer thick Si layer that is weakly bonded to the underline oxide.
Abstract:
A single crystal semiconductor handle substrate for use in the manufacture of semiconductor-on-insulator (e.g., silicon-on-insulator (SOI)) structure is etched to form a porous layer in the front surface region of the wafer. The etched region is oxidized and then filled with a semiconductor material, which may be polycrystalline or amorphous. The surface is polished to render it bondable to a semiconductor donor substrate. Layer transfer is performed over the polished surface thus creating semiconductor-on-insulator (e.g., silicon-on-insulator (SOI)) structure having 4 layers: the handle substrate, the composite layer comprising filled pores, a dielectric layer (e.g., buried oxide), and a device layer. The structure can be used as initial substrate in fabricating radiofrequency chips. The resulting chips have suppressed parasitic effects, particularly, no induced conductive channel below the buried oxide.