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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2003
Applicants:
Walter Schwarzenbach, Saint Nazaire les Eymes, FR;
Jean-marc Waechter, Saint Vincent de Mercuze, FR;
Inventors:
Walter Schwarzenbach, Saint Nazaire les Eymes, FR;
Jean-Marc Waechter, Saint Vincent de Mercuze, FR;
Assignee:
S.O.I.Tec Silicon on Insulator Technologies S.A., Bernin, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/30 (2006.01); H01L 21/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A device and method for annealing a wafer. The preferred embodiment includes applying a basic thermal budget to a weakened zone of a wafer, substantially evenly over the weakened zone. The basic thermal budget is insufficient to detach a detachment layer from a remainder of the wafer at the weakened zone. An additional thermal budget is applied locally in an initiation region of the weakened zone to initiate the detachment of the detachment layer at the weakened zone.