Abstract:
A process for manufacturing components in a multi-layer wafer, including the steps of: providing a multi-layer wafer (8) comprising a first semiconductor material layer (9), a second semiconductor material layer (21), and a dielectric material layer (10) arranged between the first and the second semiconductor material layer (8, 9); and removing the first semiconductor material layer (9) initially by mechanically thinning the first semiconductor material layer (9), so as to form a residual conductive layer (9'), and subsequently by chemically removing the residual conductive layer (9'). In one application, the multi-layer wafer (8) is bonded to a first wafer (1) of semiconductor material, with the second semiconductor material layer (21) facing the first wafer (1), after micro-electromechanical structures (37) have been formed in the second semiconductor material layer (21) of the multi-layer wafer.