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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:
Mar. 02, 1999

Filed:

Dec. 09, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:

Tadashi Atoji, Machida, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C30B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
117 85 ; 117 93 ; 117 94 ; 117 97 ;
Abstract

The conventional fabrication processes of SOI substrate employed wet etching for removing a porous single-crystal Si region, but wet etching involved difficulties in management of concentration for fabricating SOI substrates in high volume, which caused reduction in productivity. Therefore, provided is a fabrication process of SOI substrate comprises a step of forming a non-porous single-crystal Si region on a surface of a porous single-crystal Si region of a single-crystal Si substrate having at least the porous single-crystal Si region, a step of bonding a support substrate through an insulating region to a surface of the non-porous single-crystal Si region, and a step of removing the porous single-crystal Si region, wherein the step of removing the porous single-crystal Si region comprises a step of performing dry etching in which an etch rate of the porous single-crystal Si region is greater than that of the non-porous single-crystal Si region.


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