Type silicon material with enhanced surface mobility
AssigneeBiota Corp.
InventorJianming Li
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Abstract
A new-type silicon material is produced by hydrogen ion implantation and subsequent annealing, the annealing being preferably in two steps. The present invention raises surface mobility of a silicon wafer and produces a buried high-resistivity layer beneath a silicon surface layer. The resulting products are particularly useful for the improvement of yield and speed and radiation hardness of very large scale integrated circuits.
Claims9
A method of forming a burled high resistivity layer comprising hydrogen bubbles beneath a surface portion of a silicon substrate having a crystal orientation, said method comprising:
- irradiating said region beneath said surface portion of said silicon substrate with a beam comprising hydrogen ions at a rate to implant a dose of hydrogen ions in a boundary layer of the irradiated region,
- applying photon energy through said surface portion to raise the temperature of said irradiated region for a period of time, and
- controlling said rate and said dose of hydrogen ions and said temperature of said surface portion over said period of time to order to convert said dose of hydrogen ions in said boundary layer into an insulating layer comprising hydrogen bubbles.
A method of forming a burled high resistivity layer comprising hydrogen bubbles beneath a surface portion of a silicon substrate having a crystal orientation, said method comprising:
- irradiating said region beneath said surface portion of said silicon substrate with a beam comprising hydrogen ions at a rate to implant a dose of hydrogen ions in a boundary layer of the irradiated region,
- applying radiant energy through said surface portion to raise the temperature of said irradiated region for a period of time, and
- controlling said rate and said dose of hydrogen ions and said temperature of said surface portion over said period of time in order to convert said dose of hydrogen ions to said boundary layer into an insulating layer comprising bubbles in which said radiant energy is applied by means of Rapid Thermal Annealing (RTA).
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