摘要:
A heating furnace for semiconductor wafers having a heater arranged around a core tube, layers of a heat insulating material made of a porous heat insulating material or ceramic fibers arranged around the heater, and layers of a heat reflecting material arranged in the layers of the heat insulating material.
摘要:
The invention proposes a process and equipment for the thermal treatment of semiconductor materials which contains an isothermal, all-round heated process tube in a so-called "closed-tube" process using a compact construction of the furnace, whereby a defined process gas atmosphere is present in the process chamber from the very start of the process and a reverse diffusion is prevented. A double-tube system is used here with an adjustable interspace rinsing, i.e. the use of the so-called "rapid cassette" in cold blowing. Applications for the invention are in particular the oxidation, diffusion, deposition and tempering of semiconductor discs.
摘要:
An apparatus for heat treating substrates. The apparatus comprises a furnace core tube for containing the substrates, a heater provided for enclosing the furnace core tube, an inner cylinder provided for enclosing the heater, and an outer cylinder with a path for cooling water provided therein. The apparatus further comprises a heat reflecting mirror formed on an inner surface of the outer cylinder and a blower for ventilating the space between the furnace core tube and the inner cylinder. After heat treatment of the substrates is carried out, the blower is activated and the cooling water is circulated in the outer cylinder. Therefore, an undesirable rise in the temperature of the mirror can be prevented.
摘要:
Thermal transfer between a semiconductor wafer and a platen during vacuum processing is provided through a soft, thermally-conductive polymer layer having a thin, hard surface film. The soft polymer layer, which is preferably silicone rubber containing thermally-conductive particles, conforms to surface irregularities on the wafer and has low thermal resistance. The surface film is preferably silicon dioxide in the form of a multiplicity of flat plates integrally formed on the silicone rubber. Adherence of the wafer and of foreign matter to the polymer layer is prevented by the surface film. In addition, the underlying polymer layer is protected by the surface film. A high purity polymer layer is fabricated by evacuating the mold cavity and the resin container prior to injection of resin. The mold for the polymer layer utilizes a hard, smooth mold release surface and a resilient gasket between the platen and the mold release surface. The gasket establishes the dimensions of the polymer layer and seals the mold cavity. The surface film is formed by oxygen plasma treatment of the silicone rubber layer.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a method of heat-treating a semiconductor wafer by utilizing an electromagnetic wave. The wafer is floated by the blast of a gas and is held in a non-contacting state, and the electromagnetic wave, such as microwave, is projected on the wafer in this state so as to heat it. According to the present invention, only the wafer is heated and, hence, the wafer can be heat-treated uniformly and efficiently with great precision.
摘要:
A system and method for evenly heating semiconductor wafers in a horizontal elongated reaction tube, wherein a furnace surrounding only a part of the length of the reaction tube is caused to move so as to pass along each wafer placed in the reaction tube. The system is especially useful for processing wafers at high temperatures for a short period of time.
摘要:
Directly heatable tubular semiconductor bodies are produced by pyrolytically depositing a continuous layer of silicon or silicon carbide from a thermally decomposable silicon compound onto a heated graphite mandrel, non-destructively removing the so-deposited tubular body from the mandrel, applying a dopant-containing lacquer or the like onto select outer surface portions of such tubular body and subjecting the so-coated tubular body to diffusion conditions sufficient to dope the select outer body portions of the body and render such body directly heatable via an applied electrical current.
摘要:
Hollow semiconductor bodies are formed from a gaseous phase by deposition on a heated mandrel and end zones of a so-produced body are doped so as to be conductive at room temperature.
摘要:
Apparatus for continuously carrying out mass transfer reactions in a reaction chamber utilizing laminar flow to provide diffusion limited transport and to provide isolation between process steps. There is provided a gaseous phase material inlet filter tube to introduce gaseous phase material in laminar flow within a reaction zone and an exhaust pressure baffle to maintain laminar flow throughout the reaction zone. Substrates may be continuously passed through a reaction zone to provide an inline system.
摘要:
Pulsed processing methods and systems for heating objects such as semiconductor substrates feature process control for multi-pulse processing of a single substrate, or single or multi-pulse processing of different substrates having different physical properties. Heat is applied a controllable way to the object during a background heating mode, thereby selectively heating the object to at least generally produce a temperature rise throughout the object during background heating. A first surface of the object is heated in a pulsed heating mode by subjecting it to at least a first pulse of energy. Background heating is controlled in timed relation to the first pulse. A first temperature response of the object to the first energy pulse may be sensed and used to establish at least a second set of pulse parameters for at least a second energy pulse to at least partially produce a target condition.