Abstract:
A process for cutting a trench in a silicon monocrystal in areas defined by a mask comprises forming a mask that defines the etch area on the surface of a monocrystallin silicon wafer eventually covered by a thin layer of oxide; implanting ions with a kinetic energy and in a dose sufficient to amorphize the silicon down to a predefined depth within the defined area, while maintaining the temperature of the wafer sufficiently low to prevent relaxation of point defects produced in the silicon and diffusion of the implanted ions in the crystal lattice of the silicon adjacent to the amorphized region; and heating the implanted wafer causing dislodgment and expulsion of the amorphized portion in correspondence of the interface with the adjacent crystal lattice of the silicon.
Abstract:
The electrical performances of a dielectric film of capacitive coupling in an integrated structure are enhanced by forming the polycrystalline-metal electrically conductive layer coupled with the dielectric film substantially unigranular over the coupling area, commonly to be defined by patterning the stacked dielectric and conductive layers. A process of forming a polycrystalline silicon film having exceptionally large grains of a size of the same order of magnitude of the dimensions of the patterned details is disclosed. These exceptionally large grains are obtained by preventing the formation of "precursor nuclei" of subsequent grain formation and growth at the deposition interface with the dielectric that are apparently formed during the first instants of silicon CVD deposition and by successively growing the crystallites at a sufficiently low annealing temperature.