摘要:
Methods of forming semiconductor devices with a layered structure of thin and well defined layer of activated dopants, are disclosed. In a preferred method, a region in a semiconductor substrate is amorphized, after which the region is implanted with a first dopant at a first doping concentration. Then a solid phase epitaxy regrowth step is performed on a thin layer of desired thickness of the amorphized region, in order to activate the first dopant only in this thin layer. Subsequently, a second dopant is implanted in the remaining amorphous region at a second doping concentration. Subsequent annealing of the substrate activates the second dopant only in said remaining region, so a very abrupt transition between dopant characteristics of the thin layer with first dopant and the region with the second dopant is obtained.
摘要:
Methods of forming semiconductor devices with a layered structure of thin and well defined layer of activated dopants, are disclosed. In a preferred method, a region in a semiconductor substrate is amorphized, after which the region is implanted with a first dopant at a first doping concentration. Then a solid phase epitaxy regrowth step is performed on a thin layer of desired thickness of the amorphized region, in order to activate the first dopant only in this thin layer. Subsequently, a second dopant is implanted in the remaining amorphous region at a second doping concentration. Subsequent annealing of the substrate activates the second dopant only in said remaining region, so a very abrupt transition between dopant characteristics of the thin layer with first dopant and the region with the second dopant is obtained.
摘要:
A solid-state pickup element achieves both improvement in sensitivity and reduction of pixel size and a method thereof, includes a first conductive type semiconductor area, which is formed at least so as to include the inside of the semiconductor substrate upward of the overflow barrier area inside the semiconductor substrate, and a charge accumulating area at the position corresponding to the first conductive type semiconductor area of the light receptive sensor part in the epitaxial layer on the semiconductor substrate. An overflow barrier area is formed in the semiconductor substrate, and the first conductive type semiconductor area is formed on the surface, respectively, wherein an epitaxial layer is formed on the semiconductor substrate, and a charge accumulating area is formed at the position corresponding to the first conductive type semiconductor area on the surface side of the epitaxial layer, thereby producing a solid-state pickup element.
摘要:
When the temperature of a silicon substrate is increased, a first annealing gas which is mainly composed of argon or the like that does not react with said silicon substrate with a trace of oxygen added thereto, is supplied to the position of the silicon substrate to prevent any unwanted reaction from occurring on the silicon substrate whose temperature is increasing. When the temperature of the silicon substrate is lowered, a second annealing gas which is mainly composed of nitrogen or the like which has a high thermal conductivity is supplied to the silicon substrate to quickly lower the temperature of the silicon substrate and prevent a doped impurity from being undesirably diffused.
摘要:
Semiconductor devices can be fabricated using as an intermediate manufacturing structure a substrate of one semiconductor with a thin epitaxial surface layer of a different semiconductor with properties such that the semiconductors each have different solubilities with respect to a metal. When a vertical differentiation is used to expose the different materials and the metal is deposited on both and heated, the metal will form a Schottky barrier in one material and an ohmic contact in the other. Where the substrate is gallium arsenide and the epitaxial layer is gallium aluminum arsenide and the metal is tin, a self-aligned gallium arsenide MESFET is formed wherein the tin forms ohmic contacts with the gallium arsenide and a Schottky barrier contact with the gallium aluminum arsenide.
摘要:
In a semiconductor laser which has epitaxial layers including an active layer on a semiconductor substrate, a buffer layer is formed neighboring the active layer, in order to prevent undesirable diffusion of a highly diffusing dopant (Zn) into the active layer from an adjacent layer such as the second clad layer. The buffer layer has the same conductivity as that of the adjacent layer, has a broader energy gap than the active layer, and the dopant of the buffer layer is less diffusing than that of the adjacent layer.
摘要:
High quality p-n junctions are formed in silicon grown epitaxially onto a silicon substrate of one conductivity type from a melt undersaturated with silicon and containing opposite conductivity type determining impurities. Lowering the substrate into the melt causes same of the substrate dopant to enter the melt. With a substrate doping level exceeding that of the epitaxial layer that would grow in the absence of meltback, the epitaxial layer initially grows with the one conductivity type. However, as epitaxial layer thickness increases, the substrate dopant atoms in the melt are consumed and the epitaxial layer grown thereafter is of opposite conductivity type, producing a p-n junction in the epitaxial layer away from the substrate.
摘要:
In the manufacturing of a multiple layer semiconductor device, such as semiconductor laser device formed by liquid phase epitaxial growth, the following improvement is offered, that is, after forming a first epitaxial growth layer by making a semiconductor substrate contact a first semiconductor solution, and prior to forming a second epitaxial growth layer by letting said first layer contact with a second semiconductor solution, said first layer is made to contact a third semiconductor solution or liquid metal, whereby the slope of impurity concentration in the vicinity of a junction formed between the first and the second layer can be satisfactorily steepened thereby attaining a good performance.
摘要:
AUTODOPING IS MINIMIZED DURING THE GROWTH OF AN EPITAXIAL LAYER OF A SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE BY USING A GASEOUS REACTION MIXTURE THAT DEPOSITS THE INITIAL CAPPING LAYER AT A RELATIVELY SLOW DEPOSITION RATE. THE REACTION MIXTURE CONTAINS A RELATIVELY MINOR PORTION OF A SEMICONDUCTOR COMPOUND ALONG WITH THE CARRIER GAS. SUBSEQUENTLY, A SECOND GASEOUS REACTION MIXTURE CONTAINING A GREATER PORTION OF A COMPOUND OF A SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIAL IS USED TO COMPLETE THE DEPOSITION OF THE EPITXIAL LAYER. THIS IS DONE MERELY TO REDUCE THE TOTAL GROWTH CYCLE.
摘要:
IN THE MANUFACTURING OF A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE IN WHICH A SEMICONDUCTOR BODY IS LOCALLY DOPPED BY DIFFUSION FROM A MASKING MATERIAL WHICH COMPRISES AN IMPURITY, THE INCIDENTAL DIFFUSION OF THE IMPURITY FROM THE MASKING MATERIAL INTO A SURFACE OF THE SEMICONDUCTOR BODY WHICH IS UNMASKED IS CHECKED BY PERFORMING THE DIFFUSION PROCESS IN THE PRESENCE OF A POWDER OF A SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIAL. THIS METHOD ALSO PERMITS THE DIFFUSION OF TWO OR MORE IMPURITIES DURING A SINGLE DIFFUSION PROCESS.