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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate structure and a manufacturing method thereof which are simple and cost-efficient. SOLUTION: The method for manufacturing the SOI substrate structure is provided by oxidizing porous Si having a gradient. This porous Si having the gradient is formed by first implanting a (p-type or n-type) dopant into a substrate containing Si, activating this dopant using an activating annealing step, and then anodizing this implanted and activated dopant region in a solution containing HF. This Si having the gradient has a relatively coarse upper surface layer and a fine porous layer buried directly under this upper surface layer. According to the oxidation step, the fine buried porous layer is changed into a buried oxide layer, and the coarse upper surface layer is fused into a solid Si containing over-layer due to surface migration of Si atoms. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of manufacturing a device on a crystal of orientation which brings about optimal performance by providing separation by an oxygen implantation (SIMOX) method for the formation of a flat hybrid orientation semiconductor on insulator (SOI) substrate having a crystal of different orientation. SOLUTION: A method comprises steps of: selecting a substrate having a lower semiconductor layer having first crystal orientation separated from an upper semiconductor layer having second crystal orientation by a thin insulating layer; replacing the upper semiconductor layer of a selected region with epitaxial growth semiconductor having the first crystal orientation; (i) forming a padding insulating region in an epitaxial growth semiconductor material and (ii) thickening an insulating layer under the upper semiconductor layer using ion implantation and annealing methods; and forming a hybrid orientation substrate in which two semiconductor materials of different crystal orientation have substantially identical thickness and are arranged on the common padding insulating layer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing an SiGe-on-insulator substrate material substantially relaxed, of high quality, and capable of being used as a template for strained-silicon. SOLUTION: The SOI substrate having an ultra-thin top Si layer is used as the template for compressive strain SiGe growth. When an SiGe layer is relaxed at an enough temperature, the property of its dislocation movement is such that strain release defect moves down into the thin Si layer when an embedded oxide shows semi-viscosity behavior. The thin Si layer is consumed by oxidation of an interface of the thin Si with the embedded oxide. This can be performed by using inner oxidation at a high temperature. Therefore, the role of the original thin Si layer is to use the inner oxidation and subsequently to act as a sacrificial defective sink capable of being consumed during an SiGe alloy being relaxed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for forming a relaxed SiGe-on-insulator substrate having improved relaxation, significantly lower defect density, and improved surface quality. SOLUTION: The method includes a step for forming an SiGe alloy layer on a surface of a first single crystal Si layer. The first single crystal Si layer has an interface with an underlay barrier layer having resistance to Ge diffusion. Next, ions are implanted into the structure, the ions forming defects by which mechanical decoupling is achieved at the interface or vicinity of the interface; then a heating step is performed to the structure including the implanted ions, by which mutual diffusion of Ge through the first single crystal Si layer and SiGe layer is achieved; thereby a SiGe layer that is substantially relaxed single crystal and homogenous is formed on the barrier layer. A SiGe-on-insulator having improved properties and a heterostructure including it are also provided. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a manufacturing method for making a metastable strained SiGe layer. SOLUTION: The metastable SiGe layer is made by the method which includes a process that a layer containing Ge is formed on a surface of a layer disposed on a barrier layer to Ge diffusion containing Si in its upper surface portion thickness of 500 Å or less, and a process that a substantially metastable SiGe layer showing relaxation resistive property on the barrier layer is formed by heating the above-mentioned respective layers at the temperature enabling Ge to diffuse through the layer containing Si in its upper surface portion and the layer containing Ge mutually. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a planar silicon-on-insulator(SOI) structure and a method for manufacturing the structure. SOLUTION: The SOI structure has a silicon wafer 10, an oxide layer 12 and a silicon layer 14. A trench is formed as extended from an upper surface of the structure to the silicon wafer, and the trench is filled with semiconductor 34. The trench has an upper part, a bottom surface and a sidewall. The sidewall has a sidewall silicon part. The sidewall silicon part of the trench sidewall is covered with a trench sidewall oxide layer 30. A protective sidewall 32 is formed on the trench sidewall and a trench sidewall oxide layer as extended from the upper part of the trench to the bottom surface of the trench.
Abstract:
A semiconductor-containing heterostructure including, from bottom to top, a IH-V compound semiconductor buffer layer, a III-V compound semiconductor channel layer, a HI-V compound semiconductor barrier layer, and an optional, yet preferred, IH-V compound semiconductor cap layer is provided. The barrier layer may be doped, or preferably undoped. The HI-V compound semiconductor buffer layer and the HI-V compound semiconductor barrier layer are comprised of materials that have a wider band gap than that of the pi-V compound semiconductor channel layer. Since wide band gap materials are used for the buffer and barrier layer and a narrow band gap material is used for the channel layer, carriers are confined to the channel layer under certain gate bias range. The inventive heterostructure can be employed as a buried channel structure in a field effect transistor.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a method of fabricating a SiGe-on-insulator substrate in which lattice engineering is employed to decouple the interdependence between SiGe thickness, Ge fraction and strain relaxation. The method includes providing a SiGe-on-insulator substrate material comprising a SiGe alloy layer having a selected in-plane lattice parameter, a selected thickness parameter and a selected Ge content parameter, wherein the selected in-plane lattice parameter has a constant value and one or both of the other parameters, i.e., thickness or Ge content, have adjustable values; and adjusting one or both of the other parameters to final selected values, while maintaining the selected in-plane lattice parameter. The adjusting is achieved utilizing either a thinning process or a thermal dilution process depending on which parameters are fixed and which are adjustable.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of forming a bonding interface between Si having characteristics equal to that attained by hydrophobic bonding by removing an ultra thin interface oxide remaining after hydrophobic wafer bonding between Si. SOLUTION: The interface oxide layer in the order of about 2-3 nm is dissolved and removed by, for example, high temperature annealing at 1,300-1,330°C only for 1-5 hours. The invention is most effectively used if the Si surface of a bonding interface has a different surface orientation as, for example, the Si surface with (100) orientation is bonded to the Si surface with (110) orientation. In more generous modes of this invention, an undesired material arranged on the bonding interface of two silicon-contained semiconductor materials can be removed by a similar annealing process. The surface crystal orientation, fine structure (single crystal, polycrystal, or amorphous), and elements of two silicon-contained semiconductor materials may or may not be identical. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for amorphization/template re-crystallization for changing orientation in the selected region of a silicon, without remaining defect of high density, by preparing an anneal process optimized to remove defects caused by damage due to injection, in a single crystal silicon. SOLUTION: The region of Si having a first crystal orientation is amorphised by iron-implantation, and is re-crystallized into the orientation of a template layer having different orientation, in an amorphising/template re-crystallization (ATR) process. A reoriented Si of low defective density in the process is formed by this method. More specifically, the invention relates to a high temperature annealing condition required for eliminating defects remaining in an Si-contained single crystal semiconductor material formed of the layer whose orientation is identical or different from the original orientation of amorphous layer by amorphising caused by ion-implantation and template re-crystallization. The main factor of that is a thermal process for removing defects remaining after initial re-crystallization annealing, in the temperature range of 1,250-1,330°C for several minutes to several hours. A reoriented Si of low defective density, formed by ATR, is provided as well for use with a hybrid orientation substrate. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI