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US 7,452,423 B2Granted
Diffusion system
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsJun-young Kim, Byoung-lyong Choi, Eun-kyung Lee
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Abstract
Provided is a diffusion system for forming a doping layer in a wafer. The diffusion system includes a bubbler for generating a doping gas; a premixer, which premixes the doping gas with reactive gases and preheats the gas mixture; a main chamber, in which the gas mixture reacts to the wafer; a buffer case, which externally isolates an exhaust port and a door for loading and unloading the wafer into and out or the main chamber; and a used gas exhaustion system, which exhausts a used gas after the reaction is finished in the main chamber.
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A diffusion system for forming a doping layer in a wafer, the system comprising:
- a bubbler generating a doping gas;
- a premixer premixing the doping gas with reactive gases to form a gas mixture and preheating the gas mixture;
- a main chamber, in which the gas mixture reacts with the wafer;
- a buffer case surrounding at least a portion of the main chamber and externally isolating an exhaust port and a door on the main chamber, wherein the wafer is loaded and unloaded via the buffer case and the door into and out of the main chamber;
- a waste gas exhaustion system exhausting waste gas after the reaction is finished in the main chamber;
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- wherein the door has a double insulation structure with a double sandwich structure with two elements with two surfaces combined to form a door, wherein the first element is formed of quartz and the second element is formed of graphite.
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A premixer for supplying a gas mixture containing a doping gas to a main chamber in which the gas mixture reacts with a wafer, the premixer comprising:
- a premixer container;
- two or more gas carrier tubes at least one gas carrier tube carrying the doping gas and at least one gas carrier tube carrying reactive gases;
- a gas mixture supply tube supplying a gas mixture of the doping gas and the reactive gases from the premixer container to the main chamber;
- a door on the main chamber;
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- a premixer heater controlling the temperature of the premixer container and the gas mixture, wherein a first portion of the premixer container that exhausts the gas mixture to the gas mixture supply tube has a tapering or conic interior shape between a second and a third portion of the premixer container, wherein the second portion is between the heater and two or more gas carrier tubes within the premixer container, and the third portion is adjacent to the gas mixture supply tube, and wherein the premixer includes a single premixer heater and/or the two or more gas carrier tubes extend into the volume of the premixer, and wherein the door has a double insulation structure with a double sandwich structure with two elements with two surfaces combined to form a door, wherein the first element is formed of quartz and the second element is formed of graphite.
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A main chamber of a diffusion system in which a wafer reacts to gases, the main chamber comprising:
- an atmospheric gas nozzle formed on one side of the main chamber and spraying an atmospheric gas;
- a gas mixture nozzle spraying a gas mixture containing a doping gas in an opposite direction to a direction in which the atmospheric gas nozzle sprays the atmospheric gas such that the atmospheric gas is mixed with the doping gas;
- a door via which the wafer is loaded into and unloaded out from the main chamber;
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- an exhaust port exhausting waste gas after the doping gas reacts to the wafer, wherein the door has a double insulation structure with a double sandwich structure with two elements with two surfaces combined to form a door, wherein the first element is formed of quartz and the second element is formed of graphite.
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A waste gas exhausting system for exhausting waste gas from a main chamber after a wafer reacts to gases, the waste gas exhausting system comprising:
- an exhausting tube;
- a supporting system for correcting thermal expansion in axial and radial directions of the exhausting tube and cooling the waste gas;
- a scrubber for exhausting the waste gas using a vacuum pump connected to a terminal portion of the scrubber;
- a shower nozzle cooling the waste gas in the exhausting tube by spraying a low-temperature inert gas toward the exhausting tube connected to the exhaust port of the main chamber;
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- a door on the main chamber;
- wherein the supporting system comprises:
- a spring attached to upper and lower portions of the exhausting tube downstream from the shower nozzle to compensate for radial thermal expansion caused by the cooling by the shower nozzle;
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- a bellows downstream from the shower nozzle correcting axial thermal expansion of the exhausting tube caused by the cooling by the shower nozzle and further cooling the waste gas with an increased surface area, and
- wherein the low-temperature inert gas does not mix with the waste gas and/or is provided outside the main chamber, and wherein the door has a double insulation structure with a double sandwich structure with two elements with two surfaces combined to form a door, wherein the first element is formed of quartz and the second element is formed of graphite.
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A diffusion system for forming a doping layer in a wafer, the system comprising:
- a bubbler generating a doping gas;
- a premixer premixing the doping gas with reactive gases and preheating the gas mixture;
- a main chamber, in which the gas mixture reacts with the wafer;
- a buffer case surrounding at least a portion of the main chamber and externally isolating an exhaust port and a door on the main chamber, wherein the door allows for loading and unloading the wafer into and out from the main chamber;
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- a waste gas exhaustion system exhausting waste gas after the reaction is finished in the main chamber, wherein the main chamber comprises:
- an atmospheric gas nozzle being formed on one side of the main chamber and spraying an atmospheric gas;
- a gas mixture nozzle spraying a gas mixture containing a doping gas in an opposite direction to a direction in which the atmospheric gas nozzle sprays the atmospheric gas such that the atmospheric gas is mixed with the doping gas;
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- an exhaust port exhausting the waste gas after the doping gas reacts to the wafer, wherein the buffer case hermetically seals the door and the exhaust port of the main chamber within the region of the main chamber surrounded by the buffer case, wherein the door has a double insulation structure with a double sandwich structure with two elements with two surfaces combined to form a door, wherein the first element is formed of quartz and the second element is formed of graphite.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.