Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100112781 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SOI WAFER - The present invention provides a method for manufacturing an SOI wafer, including: a step of preparing a base wafer consisting of a p | 05-06-2010 |
20100112824 | METHOD FOR FORMING SILICON OXIDE FILM OF SOI WAFER - The invention is a method for forming a silicon oxide film of an SOI wafer, the method by which at least thermal oxidation treatment is performed (a process (A)) on an SOI wafer having an oxide film on the back surface and, after the thermal oxidation treatment, heat treatment is additionally performed (a process (B)) in a non-oxidizing atmosphere at a temperature higher than the temperature at which the thermal oxidation treatment was performed, whereby a silicon oxide film is formed on the front surface of an SOI layer. This provides a method for forming a silicon oxide film of an SOI wafer, the method that can prevent an SOI wafer from being warped after thermal oxidation treatment even when an SOI wafer having a thick oxide film on the back surface is used and a silicon oxide film for forming a device is formed by thermal oxidation on the front surface on the SOI layer side, and can reduce exposure failure and adsorption failure caused by warpage of the SOI wafer and enhance yields of device fabrication. | 05-06-2010 |
20100129993 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SOI WAFER - The present invention provides a method for manufacturing an SOI wafer wherein an HCl gas is mixed in a reactive gas at a step of forming a silicon epitaxial layer on an entire surface of an SOI layer of the SOI wafer having an oxide film on a terrace portion. As a result, it is possible to provide the method for manufacturing an SOI wafer that can easily grow the silicon epitaxial layer on the SOI layer of the SOI wafer having the oxide film on the terrace portion, suppress warpage of the SOI wafer to be manufactured, reduce generation of particles even at subsequent steps, e.g., device manufacture, and decrease a cost for manufacturing such an SOI wafer. | 05-27-2010 |
20110281420 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SOI WAFER - A method for manufacturing an SOI wafer including implanting a gas ion into a bond wafer from a surface thereof to form an ion-implanted layer; bonding the ion-implanted surface of the bond wafer to a surface of a base wafer through an insulator film; and delaminating the bond wafer at the ion-implanted layer to manufacture the SOI wafer. The method further includes immersing the bonded wafer prior to the delamination of the bond wafer at the ion-implanted layer into a liquid capable of dissolving the insulator film or exposing the bonded wafer to a gas capable of dissolving the insulator film so that the insulator film located between the bond wafer and the base wafer is etched from an outer circumferential edge toward a center of the bonded wafer. | 11-17-2011 |
20120135584 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SOI WAFER - A method for manufacturing an SOI wafer includes performing a flattening heat treatment on an SOI wafer under an atmosphere containing an argon gas, in which conditions of SOI wafer preparation are set so that a thickness of an SOI layer of the SOI wafer to be subjected to the flattening heat treatment is 1.4 or more times thicker than that of a BOX layer, and the thickness of the SOI layer is reduced to less than a thickness 1.4 times the thickness of the BOX layer by performing a sacrificial oxidation treatment on the SOI layer of the SOI wafer after the flattening heat treatment. | 05-31-2012 |
20130023069 | METHOD FOR CHECKING ION IMPLANTATION CONDITION AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER - A method for checking an ion implantation condition when ions are implanted over an entirety of one surface of a semiconductor wafer having an insulator film on the one surface, the method including checking whether the ions are implanted over the entirety of the one surface of the semiconductor wafer by directly or indirectly observing light emitted when the one surface of the semiconductor wafer is irradiated with an ion beam of the implanted ions throughout the ion implantation. | 01-24-2013 |
20130316522 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SOI WAFER - The present invention is directed to a method for manufacturing an SOI wafer, the method by which treatment that removes the outer periphery of a buried oxide film to obtain a structure in which a peripheral end of an SOI layer of an SOI wafer is located outside a peripheral end of the buried oxide film, and, after heat treatment is performed on the SOI wafer in a reducing atmosphere containing hydrogen or an atmosphere containing hydrogen chloride gas, an epitaxial layer is formed on a surface of the SOI layer. As a result, there is provided a method that can manufacture an SOI wafer having a desired SOI layer thickness by performing epitaxial growth without allowing a valley-shaped step to be generated in an SOI wafer with no silicon oxide film in a terrace portion, the SOI wafer fabricated by an ion implantation delamination method. | 11-28-2013 |
20140097523 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BONDED WAFER AND BONDED SOI WAFER - A method for manufacturing a bonded wafer includes: an ion implantation step of using a batch type ion implanter; a bonding step of bonding an ion implanted surface of a bond wafer to a surface of a base wafer directly or through an insulator film; and a delamination step of delaminating the bond wafer at an ion implanted layer, thereby manufacturing a bonded wafer having a thin film on the base wafer, wherein the ion implantation into the bond wafer carried out at the ion implantation step is divided into a plurality of processes, the bond wafer is rotated on its own axis a predetermined rotation angle after each ion implantation, and the next ion implantation is carried out at an arrangement position obtained by the rotation. | 04-10-2014 |
20140186977 | METHOD FOR CALCULATING WARPAGE OF BONDED SOI WAFER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BONDED SOI WAFER - A method for calculating a warpage of a bonded SOI wafer includes: assuming that the epitaxial growth SOI wafer is a silicon single crystal wafer having the same dopant concentration as dopant concentration of the bond wafer; calculating a warpage A that occurs at the time of performing the epitaxial growth relative to the assumed silicon single crystal wafer; calculating a warpage B caused due to a thickness of the BOX layer of the epitaxial growth SOI wafer; determining a measured value of a warpage of the base wafer before bonding as a warpage C; and calculating a sum of the warpages (A+B+C) as the warpage of the bonded SOI wafer. | 07-03-2014 |