Siltronic Ag

Joerg Moser

Anton Huber

Joachim Mattes

Hans Adolf Gerber

Peter Wagner

A semiconductor wafer has a front side, a rear side and an edge which runs along the circumference of the semiconductor wafer and which connects the front side and the rear side of the edge having a defined edge profile, the edge profile being substantially constant over the entire circumference of the semiconductor wafer. A method for producing such a wafer allows for production of a multiplicity of semiconductor wafers, the edge profile being substantially constant from semiconductor wafer to semiconductor wafer.

Semiconductor wafers with highly precise edge profile and method for producing them

Semiconductor wafers with profiled edges, are produced with decreased losses due to edge or other damage by separating a semiconductor wafer from a crystal; profiling the edge in a profile producing step wherein the edge is mechanically machined to a profile that is true to scale with respect to a predefined target profile; mechanically machining the wafer to reduce the a thickness of the semiconductor wafer; and machining the edge profile to acquire the target profile.

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Unterneukirchen, Germany

Joerg Moser