Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Patterned doping of semiconductor substrates using photosensitive monolayers
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Application No.: US12699552Application Date: 2010-02-03
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Publication No.: US08354333B2Publication Date: 2013-01-15
- Inventor: Ali Afzali-Ardakani , Devendra K. Sadana , Lidija Sekaric
- Applicant: Ali Afzali-Ardakani , Devendra K. Sadana , Lidija Sekaric
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.
- Agent Vazken Alexanian
- Main IPC: H01L21/22
- IPC: H01L21/22 ; H01L21/38

Abstract:
A semiconductor device and a method of fabricating a semiconductor device are disclosed. Embodiments of the invention use a photosensitive self-assembled monolayer to pattern the surface of a substrate into hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions, and an aqueous (or alcohol) solution of a dopant compound is deposited on the substrate surface. The dopant compound only adheres on the hydrophilic regions. After deposition, the substrate is coated with a very thin layer of oxide to cap the compounds, and the substrate is annealed at high temperatures to diffuse the dopant atoms into the silicon and to activate the dopant. In one embodiment, the method comprises providing a semiconductor substrate including an oxide surface, patterning said surface into hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions, depositing a compound including a dopant on the substrate, wherein the dopant adheres to the hydrophilic region, and diffusing the dopant into the oxide surface of the substrate.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110186969A1 PATTERNED DOPING OF SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATES USING PHOTOSENSITIVE MONOLAYERS Public/Granted day:2011-08-04
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