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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2021

Filed:

Jun. 14, 2017
Applicant:

Sumco Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Kazutaka Eriguchi, Berkeley, CA (US);

Shuichi Samata, Saga, JP;

Syun Sasaki, Saga, JP;

Assignee:

SUMCO CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/64 (2006.01); G01N 21/95 (2006.01); H01L 21/66 (2006.01); H01J 37/30 (2006.01); H01J 37/31 (2006.01); G01N 21/27 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/6489 (2013.01); G01N 21/274 (2013.01); G01N 21/9501 (2013.01); H01J 37/3002 (2013.01); H01J 37/31 (2013.01); H01L 22/00 (2013.01); H01L 22/10 (2013.01); H01L 22/14 (2013.01); H01L 22/20 (2013.01); H01L 22/30 (2013.01);
Abstract

Provided is a method of evaluating carbon concentration of a silicon sample, which includes: forming an oxide film on at least a part of a surface of an evaluation-target silicon sample; irradiating a particle beam onto a surface of the oxide film; irradiating excitation light having energy larger than a band gap of silicon onto the surface of the oxide film, onto which the particle beam has been irradiated; measuring intensity of photoluminescence emitted from the evaluation-target silicon sample irradiated with the excitation and evaluating carbon concentration of the evaluation-target silicon sample on the basis of the measured intensity of photoluminescence, wherein the photoluminescence is band-edge luminescence of silicon.


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