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US 6,321,134 B1Granted
Clustertool system software using plasma immersion ion implantation
AssigneeSilicon Genesis Corporation
InventorsFrancois J. Henley, Nathan Cheung
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Abstract
A cluster tool system having a computer memory. The memory has a variety of codes for operating a plasma immersion ion implantation chamber. In some embodiments, the cluster tool method also includes computer codes for a controlled cleaving process chamber, as well as others.
Claims23
A clustertool system for forming substrates, said clustertool including a memory comprising:
- a code directed to providing a donor substrate;
- a code directed to placing said donor substrate in a plasma immersion ion implantation chamber;
- a code directed to introducing plasma particles through a surface of said donor substrate to a selected depth underneath said surface, said particles being at a concentration at said selected depth to define a substrate material to be removed above said selected depth;
- a code directed to placing said donor substrate in a second chamber and joining said donor substrate to a target substrate, said surface of said donor substrate facing a face of said target substrate to form a multi-layered substrate;
- a code directed to placing said multi-layered substrate in a third chamber;
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- a code directed to providing energy to a selected region of said substrate to initiate a controlled cleaving action at said selected depth in said substrate wherein said code directed to providing energy increases a controlled stress in said substrate material and sustains said controlled cleaving action to remove said substrate material from said donor substrate to provide a film of material, whereupon said cleaving action is made using a propagating cleave front to free a portion of said substrate material to be removed from said substrate.
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