Globalwafers Japan Co., Ltd.

Covalent Materials Corporation

Tohoku University

Tatsuhiko Aoki

Koji Araki

Haruo Sudo

Koji Izunome

Takeshi Senda

Susumu Maeda

Kazuhiko Kashima

Hiromichi Isogai

Eiji Toyoda

Kumiko Murayama

Tetsuo Endoh

Shoji Ikeda

Takashi Ishikawa

Akihiko Kobayashi

Etsuo Fukuda

Hiroyuki Saito

Senlin Fu

Hisashi Matsumura

Aya Ushioda

Shin Sakai

Manabu Hirasawa

Hiroaki Kariyazaki

Yoichiro Mochizuki

The occurrence of breaking and chipping at the wafer peripheral edge of a bonded wafer obtained by bonding a lamination wafer on a support wafer is suppressed. A lamination wafer to be bonded to a support wafer includes a large-diameter portion made of a silicon wafer whose peripheral edge is chamfered and a small-diameter portion, whose diameter is smaller than that of the large-diameter portion, formed on the large-diameter portion concentrically and integrally with the large-diameter portion, and the small-diameter portion includes a straight body portion whose side surface is perpendicular to the wafer surface, and a neck portion whose side surface is oblique with a predetermined angle to the wafer between the straight body portion and the large-diameter portion, and the small-diameter portion is formed such that the upper face of the straight body portion is to be bonded to the support wafer.

Lamination wafers and method of producing bonded wafers using the same

Provided is a method for heat-treating a silicon wafer in an inert gas atmosphere, wherein it is possible to discharge SiO gas produced in melting a natural oxide film on the surface of the silicon wafer efficiently, to suppress the accumulation of reaction products in the heat treatment chamber, and to prevent slip deterioration. The wafer is held for a period of 5 to 30 sec inclusive, the rotational speed of the wafer is set to 80 to 120 rpm, and further the inert gas supply in the chamber is controlled so that the gas replacement rate is 90% or more in a temperature range of 900 to 1100° C. inclusive.

Method for heat-treating silicon wafer

A silicon wafer is a Czochralski wafer formed of silicon. The wafer includes a bulk layer having an oxygen concentration of 0.5×10/cmor more; and a surface layer extending from the surface of the wafer to 300 nm in depth, and having an oxygen concentration of 2×10/cmor more.

Silicon wafer and method for producing silicon wafer

A protective-film forming method for a semiconductor substrate suppresses deterioration in the number of LPDs and adhesion of impurities such as particles by forming a new protective-film of a surfactant solution when the semiconductor substrate is detached from a polishing head. The method includes a first protective-film forming process for forming a protective-film by hydrophilizing the front surface of the polished substrate with a surfactant solution and, after the first protective-film forming process, a second protective-film forming process for forming protective-films on the front and back surface of the substrate by detaching the substrate from the polishing head in a state where at least the front surface of the polished semiconductor substrate is in contact with the liquid surface of the protective-film forming treatment liquid comprising a surfactant solution, then by immersing the polished substrate in a protective-film forming treatment liquid.

Protective-film forming method for semiconductor substrate

A silicon wafer is manufactured by subjecting a silicon wafer sliced from a silicon single-crystal ingot grown by the Czochralski process to a rapid thermal process in which the silicon wafer is heated to a maximum temperature within a range of 1300 to 1380&#xb0; C., and kept at the maximum temperature for 5 to 60 seconds; and removing a surface layer of the wafer where a semiconductor device is to be manufactured by a thickness of not less X [&#x3bc;m] which is calculated according to the below equations (1) to (3):[&#x3bc;m]=[&#x3bc;m]+[&#x3bc;m]&#x2003;&#x2003;(1);[&#x3bc;m]=(0.0031&#xd7;(said maximum temperature) [&#xb0; C.]&#x2212;3.1)&#xd7;6.4&#xd7;(cooling rate)&#x2212;[&#xb0; C./second]&#x2003;&#x2003;(2); and[&#x3bc;m]=/(solid solubility limit of oxygen) [atoms/cm]/(oxygen concentration in substrate) [atoms/cm]&#x2003;&#x2003;(3).

Silicon wafer and method for manufacturing the same

A silicon wafer for preventing a void defect in a bulk region from becoming source of contamination and slip generation in a device process is provided. And a heat-treating method thereof for reducing crystal defects such as COP in a region near the wafer surface to be a device active region is provided. The silicon wafer has a surface regionwhich is a defect-free region and a bulk regionincluding void defect of a polyhedron whose basic shape is an octahedron in which a corner portion of the polyhedron is in the curved shape and an inner-wall oxide film the void defect is removed. The silicon wafer is provided by performing a heat-treating method in which gas to be supplied, inner pressure of spaces and a maximum achievable temperature are set to a predetermined value when subjecting the silicon wafer produced by a CZ method to RTP.

Silicon wafer and method for heat-treating silicon wafer

A silicon wafer produced from a silicon single crystal ingot grown by Czochralski process is subjected to rapid heating/cooling thermal process at a maximum temperature (T) of 1300&#xb0; C. or more, but less than 1380&#xb0; C. in an oxidizing gas atmosphere having an oxygen partial pressure of 20% or more, but less than 100%. The silicon wafer according to the invention has, in a defect-free region (DZ layer) including at least a device active region of the silicon wafer, a high oxygen concentration region having a concentration of oxygen solid solution of 0.7&#xd7;10atoms/cmor more and at the same time, the defect-free region contains interstitial silicon in supersaturated state.

Method of manufacturing single crystal silicon wafer from ingot grown by Czocharlski process with rapid heating/cooling process

The invention is to provide a method for heat treating a silicon wafer reducing grown-in defects while suppressing generation of slip during RTP and improving surface roughness of the wafer. The method performing a first heat treatment while introducing a rare gas, the first heat treatment comprising the steps of rapidly heating the wafer to Tof 1300&#xb0; C. or higher and the melting point of silicon or lower, keeping the wafer at T, rapidly cooling the wafer to Tof 400-800&#xb0; C. and keeping the wafer at T; and performing a second heat treatment while introducing an oxygen gas in an amount of 20-100 vol. %, the second heat treatment comprising the steps of keeping the wafer at T, rapidly heating the wafer from Tto Tof 1250&#xb0; C. or higher and the melting point of silicon or lower, keeping the wafer at Tand rapidly cooling the wafer.

Method for heat treating a silicon wafer

In a method of heat treating a wafer obtained by slicing a silicon single crystal ingot manufactured by the Czochralski method, a rapid heating/cooling heat treatment is carried out by setting a holding time at an ultimate temperature of 1200&#xb0; C. or more and a melting point of silicon or less to be equal to or longer than one second and to be equal to or shorter than 60 seconds in a mixed gas atmosphere containing oxygen having an oxygen partial pressure of 1.0% or more and 20% or less and argon, and an oxide film having a thickness of 9.1 nm or less or 24.3 nm or more is thus formed on a surface of the silicon wafer.

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Niigata, Japan

Tatsuhiko Aoki