Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of forming a substantially relaxed high-quality SiGe-on-insulator substrate material using SIMOX and Ge interdiffusion. SOLUTION: In order to form an injection rich area in a Si-containing substrate, ions are injected into Si-containing substrate at the beginning. The inplanted-ion rich region has sufficient ion concentration so that a barrier layer to disturb Ge diffusion is formed during annealing at a high temperature. Next, Ge-containing layer is formed on a surface of the Si-containing substrate, and then a heating process is performed at a temperature that enables the formation of a barrier layer, and the Ge interdiffusion. This allows a substantially relaxed single-crystal SiGe layer to be formed on the barrier layer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a field-effect transistor whose charge carrier mobility increases by the stress of an electric current channel 22. SOLUTION: The direction of the stress is that in which a current flows (vertical direction). For a PFET device, the stress is compressive stress, while the stress is tensile stress in an NFET device. The stress is produced by a compressive film 34 located in an area 32 under the channel. The compressive film pushes up the channel 22 which bends the channel. In the PFET device, the compressive film is arranged under the edge 31 of the channel (e.g., under a source or drain) which compresses the upper part 22A of the channel. In the NFET device, the compressive film is arranged under the center 40 of the channel (e.g., under the gate) which pulls the upper part 22A of the channel. Therefore, both the NFET device and the PFET device can be strengthened. A method for manufacturing these devices is included. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To form a patterned silicon-on-insulator (SOI)/silicon-on-nothing (SON) composite structure by a porous Si technique. SOLUTION: A patterned SOI/SON composite structure and a method of forming the same are provided. In the SOI/SON composite structure, a patterned SOI/SON structure is sandwiched between an Si overlayer and a semiconductor substrate. The method of forming the patterned SOI/SON composite structure includes a shared processing treatment step wherein both SOI and SON structures are formed. This invention further provides a method of forming a composite structure including an embedded conductive/SON structure, and a method of forming a composite structure including only an embedded void plane. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for suppressing the formation of flat surface defects, such as stacking faults and microtwins in a relaxed SiGe alloy layer. SOLUTION: There is disclosed the method of manufacturing a substantially-relaxed SiGe alloy layer, in which flat surface defect density is decreased. The method comprises the steps of forming a strained Ge-containing layer on the front surface of an Si-containing substrate, implanting ions into the interface of the Ge-containing layer/the Si-containing substrate or under the interface, and forming the substantially-relaxed SiGe alloy layer, in which the flat surface defect density is decreased. Further, there are also provided a substantially relaxed SiGe-on-insulator, having an SiGe layer in which the flat surface defect density is decreased, and a heterostructure comprising the insulator. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an integrated semiconductor device formed on a substrate having different crystal orientation. SOLUTION: A method of forming a hybrid substrate containing strained Si and a strained Si containing hybrid substrate formed by this method are provided. In the present invention, a strained Si layer is formed on a semiconductor material, a second semiconductor layer, or both of them. According to the present invention, the strained Si layer has the same crystal orientation as either of a regrown semiconductor layer or the second semiconductor layer. This method provides the hybrid substrate wherein at least one of device layers contains the strained Si. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for detecting crystal defect in a thin Si layer on a SiGe alloy layer. SOLUTION: Defect etchant having high defect selectivity for Si 16 is used in this method. The defect etchant etches Si 16 to a thickness for a defect pit 18 to reach the SiGe layer 14 located under the Si 16. Next the second etchant that may be the same as the defect etchant or different from it is used to corrode the SiGe layer 14 under the pit while Si 16 is kept unhurt. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To develop a new improved method for forming a relaxed SiGe-on-insulator substrate material which is thermodynamically stable with respect to the generation of a defect. SOLUTION: Silicon to which tensile stress is applied is formed by epitaxially growing over the whole SiGe alloy layer. Silicon to which compressive stress is applied is formed by epitaxially growing over the whole porous silicon. A method of converting a patterned SOI region into patterned an SGOI (silicon-germanium ON oxide) by a SiGe/SOI heat mixing process for farther reinforcing the performance of a logic circuit in a padded DRAM is described in a preferred embodiment. The SGOI region in which Si is strained acts as a template for succeeding Si growth so that electrons and holes in the Si have higher mobilities. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
A stressor layer used in a controlled spalling method is removed through the use of a cleave layer that can be fractured or dissolved. The cleave layer is formed between a host semiconductor substrate and the metal stressor layer. A controlled spalling process separates a relatively thin residual host substrate layer from the host substrate. Following attachment of a handle substrate to the residual substrate layer or other layers subsequently formed thereon, the cleave layer is dissolved or otherwise compromised to facilitate removal of the stressor layer. Such removal allows the fabrication of a bifacial solar cell.
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:
A method is disclosed for forming a strained Si layer on SiGe, where the SiGe layer has improved thermal conductivity. A first layer (41) of Si or Ge is deposited on a substrate (10) in a first depositing step; a second layer (42) of the other element is deposited on the first layer in a second depositing step; and the first and second depositing steps are repeated so as to form a combined SiGe layer (50) having a plurality of Si layers and a plurality of Ge layers (41-44). The respective thicknesses of the Si layers and Ge layers are in accordance with a desired composition ratio of the combined SiGe layer. The combined SiGe layer (50) is characterized as a digital alloy of Si and Ge having a thermal conductivity greater than that of a random alloy of Si and Ge. This method may further include the step of depositing a Si layer (61) on the combined SiGe layer (50); the combined SiGe layer is characterized as a relaxed SiGe layer, and the Si layer (61) is a strained Si layer. For still greater thermal conductivity in the SiGe layer, the first layer and second layer may be deposited so that each layer consists essentially of a single isotope.