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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 1997
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1995
Shin-Etsu Handotai Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A lifetime related quality evaluation method, used with a semiconductor wafer having a semiconductor thin layer over the main surface of a semiconductor substrate, for evaluating the lifetime related quality of the semiconductor thin layer and/or the vicinity thereof, characterized by: generating electron-hole pairs in the vicinity of a surface of the semiconductor thin layer by the use of excitation light having a larger energy than the band gap of a semiconductor to be tested; then detecting the intensity at a particular wavelength of light emitted by recombination of the electron-hole pairs; and evaluating the lifetime related quality of the semiconductor thin layer and/or the vicinity thereof based on the detected intensity. The lifetime related quality evaluation method realizes a non-contact, non-destructive quality evaluation of the epitaxial semiconductor wafer.