Abstract:
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
Abstract:
A strained Fin Field Effect Transistor (FinFET) (and method for forming the same) includes a relaxed first material having a sidewall, and a strained second material formed on the sidewall of the first material. The relaxed first material and the strained second material form a fin of the FinFET.
Abstract:
A method utilizing localized amorphization and recrystallization of stacked template layers is provided for making a planar substrate having semiconductor layers of different crystallographic orientations. Also provided are hybrid-orientation semiconductor substrate structures built with the methods of the invention, as well as such structures integrated with various CMOS circuits comprising at least two semiconductor devices disposed on different surface orientations for enhanced device performance.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and device by which a semiconductor substrate, a CMP tool, a brush cleaning tool, and a chemical wafer cleaning tool can be incorporated. SOLUTION: CMP is performed with a descending force of 1 psi, backward air pressure of 0.5 psi, platen speed of 50 rpm, carrier speed of 30 rpm, and slurry flow rate of 140 milliliter.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make applicable the structure of an epitaxial field effect transistor to the intended uses of high-speed low-noise microwave and quasi-millimetric- wave devices, etc., by integrating into the epitaxial field effect transistor a silicon layer, a germanium layer, and silicon-germanium layers which form jointly a modulatorily doped heterostructure. SOLUTION: After forming on a single-crystal semiconductor substrate 11 a buffer layer 12 including a layer 12A, a layer 12B, and a layer 12C, a p-type doped relaxation silicon-germanium layer 13 is formed on the layer 12C of the buffer layer 12. Then, thereon, as a spacer, a non-doped strained silicon layer 14 is grown epitaxially to grow further on the layer 14 epitaxially a non-doped thin relaxation silicon-germanium layer 15. Subsequently, on the layer 15, there are grown epitaxially in succession a germanium layer 16, a silicon-germanium layer 17, and a silicon-germanium cap layer 18 to form the laminated layer of them.
Abstract:
Layer structure arrangement comprises a single crystalline substrate, a first layer of relaxed Si1-xGex (where x = 0.35-0.5), a second layer of Si1-x, a third layer of non-doped silicon, a forth layer of non-doped Si1-x, a fifth layer of germanium, a sixth layer of Si1-wGew (where w = 0.5 to less than 1.0), and a seventh layer of Si1-xGex.
Abstract:
Eine Abspalt-Ablösungsebene wird in eine Gruppe-III-Nitrid-Materialschicht eingebettet gebildet. Die Abspalt-Ablösungsebene umfasst ein Material, welches eine andere Spannung, eine andere Struktur und eine andere Zusammensetzung als die Abschnitte der Gruppe-III-Nitrid-Materialschicht aufweist, welche die Gruppe-III-Nitrid-Materialschicht bereitstellen und die Abspalt-Ablösungsebene einbetten. Die Abspalt-Ablösungsebene stellt eine Region einer geschwächten Materialebene innerhalb der Gruppe-III-Nitrid-Materialschicht bereit, welche während eines anschließend durchgeführten Abspaltverfahrens verwendet werden kann, um einen der Abschnitte des Gruppe-III-Nitridmaterials von der ursprünglichen Gruppe-III-Nitrid-Materialschicht abzulösen. Speziell tritt während des Abspaltverfahrens innerhalb der Abspalt-Ablösungsebene, die in die ursprüngliche Gruppe-III-Nitrid-Materialschicht eingebettet ist, ein Beginn und eine Fortpflanzung von Rissen auf.
Abstract:
A spall releasing plane is formed embedded within a Group III nitride material layer. The spall releasing plane includes a material that has a different strain, a different structure and a different composition compared with the Group III nitride material portions that provide the Group III nitride material layer and embed the spall releasing plane. The spall releasing plane provides a weakened material plane region within the Group III nitride material layer which during a subsequently performed spalling process can be used to release one of the portions of Group III nitride material from the original Group III nitride material layer. In particular, during the spalling process crack initiation and propagation occurs within the spall releasing plane embedded within the original Group III nitride material layer.