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20110003460 | METHOD FOR TREATING SURFACE OF SOI SUBSTRATE - A method for minimizing thickness variation of a substrate in an anneal step and achieving the smoothing of the surface of the substrate. Specifically provided is a method for treating the surface of a SOI substrate, including the steps of treating the surface of the SOI substrate by the PACE method using a plasma or the GCIB method using a gas cluster ion beam and subjecting the treated substrate to a heat treatment in argon atmosphere or an inert gas atmosphere containing 4 vol % or less of hydrogen so that the treated SOI substrate can be annealed. | 01-06-2011 |
20110003462 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SOI WAFER - Provided is a method for manufacturing an SOI wafer, which is capable of: efficiently removing an ion-implanted defect layer existing in an ion implanted layer in the vicinity of a peeled surface peeled by an ion implantation peeling method; ensuring the in-plane uniformity of a substrate; and also achieving cost reduction and higher throughput. The method for manufacturing an SOI wafer includes at least the steps of: bonding a silicon wafer with or without an oxide film onto a handle wafer to prepare a bonded substrate, wherein the silicon wafer has an ion implanted layer formed by implanting hydrogen ions and/or rare gas ions into the silicon wafer; peeling the silicon wafer along the ion implanted layer, thereby transferring the silicon wafer onto the handle wafer to produce a post-peeling SOI wafer; immersing the post-peeling SOI wafer in an aqueous ammonia-hydrogen peroxide solution; and performing a heat treatment at a temperature of 900° C. or higher on the immersed post-peeling SOI wafer, and/or polishing a silicon film layer of the immersed post-peeling SOI wafer, through CMP polishing by 10 to 50 nm. | 01-06-2011 |
20110014775 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SILICON FILM TRANSFERRED INSULATOR WAFTER - [PROBLEM] Provided is a method for producing an SOI wafer which the method can prevent occurrence of thermal strain, detachment, crack and the like attributed to a difference in thermal expansion coefficients between the insulating substrate and the SOI layer and also improve the uniformity of film thickness of the SOI layer. | 01-20-2011 |
20110104871 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BONDED SUBSTRATE - Provided is a method for manufacturing a bonded wafer with a good thin film over the entire substrate surface, especially in the vicinity of the lamination terminal point. The method for manufacturing a bonded wafer comprises at least the following steps of: forming an ion-implanted region by implanting a hydrogen ion or a rare gas ion, or the both types of ions from a surface of a first substrate which is a semiconductor substrate; subjecting at least one of an ion-implanted surface of the first substrate and a surface of a second substrate to be attached to a surface activation treatment; laminating the ion-implanted surface of the first substrate and the surface of the second substrate in an atmosphere with a humidity of 30% or less and/or a moisture content of 6 g/m | 05-05-2011 |
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20110014776 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SOI SUBSTRATE - A method for easily manufacturing a transparent SOI substrate having: a main surface with a silicon film formed thereon; and a rough main surface located on a side opposite to a side where the silicon film is formed. A method for manufacturing transparent SOI substrate, having a silicon film formed on a first main surface of the transparent insulating substrate, while a second main surface of the transparent insulating substrate, an opposite to the first main surface, is roughened. The method includes at least the steps of: roughening the first main surface with an RMS surface roughness lower than 0.7 nm and the second main surface with an RMS surface roughness higher than the surface roughness of the first main surface to prepare the transparent insulating substrate; and forming the silicon film on the first main surface of the transparent insulating substrate. | 01-20-2011 |
20120058622 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING BONDED WAFER - When a thermal expansion coefficient of a handle substrate is higher than that of a donor substrate, delamination is provided without causing a crack in the substrates. A method for producing a bonded wafer, with at least the steps of: implanting ions into a donor substrate ( | 03-08-2012 |
20120119323 | SOS SUBSTRATE HAVING LOW SURFACE DEFECT DENSITY - A method of making bonded SOS substrate with a semiconductor film on or above a sapphire substrate by implanting ions from a surface of the semiconductor substrate to form an ion-implanted layer; activating at least a surface of one of the sapphire substrate and the semiconductor substrate from which the ions have been implanted; bonding the surface of the semiconductor substrate and the surface of the sapphire substrate at a temperature of from 50° C. to 350° C.; heating the bonded substrates at a maximum temperature of from 200° C. to 350° C.; and irradiating visible light from a sapphire substrate side or a semiconductor substrate side to the ion-implanted layer of the semiconductor substrate to make the interface of the ion-implanted layer brittle at a temperature of the bonded body higher than the temperature at which the surfaces were bonded, to transfer the semiconductor film to the sapphire substrate. | 05-17-2012 |
20120126362 | SOS SUBSTRATE HAVING LOW DEFECT DENSITY IN THE VICINITY OF INTERFACE - A bonded SOS substrate having a semiconductor film on or above a surface of a sapphire substrate is obtained by a method with the steps of implanting ions from a surface of a semiconductor substrate to form an ion-implanted layer; activating at least a surface from which the ions have been implanted; bonding the surface of the semiconductor substrate and the surface of the sapphire substrate at a temperature of 50° C. to 350° C.; heating the bonded substrates at a maximum temperature from 200° C. to 350° C. to form a bonded body; and irradiating visible light from a sapphire substrate side or a semiconductor substrate side to the ion-implanted layer of the semiconductor substrate for embrittling an interface of the ion-implanted layer, while keeping the bonded body at a temperature higher than the temperature at which the surfaces of the semiconductor substrate and the sapphire substrate were bonded. | 05-24-2012 |
20130288453 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LAMINATED WAFER BY HIGH TEMPERATURE LAMINATING METHOD - A method of manufacturing a laminated wafer is provided by forming a silicon film layer on a surface of an insulating substrate comprising the steps in the following order of: applying a surface activation treatment to both a surface of a silicon wafer or a silicon wafer to which an oxide film is layered and a surface of the insulating substrate followed by laminating in an atmosphere of temperature exceeding 50° C. and lower than 300° C., applying a heat treatment to a laminated wafer at a temperature of 200° C. to 350° C., and thinning the silicon wafer by a combination of grinding, etching and polishing to form a silicon film layer. | 10-31-2013 |
20130309843 | SOS SUBSTRATE HAVING LOW DEFECT DENSITY IN VICINITY OF INTERFACE - A bonded SOS substrate having a semiconductor film on or above a surface of a sapphire substrate is obtained by a method with the steps of implanting ions from a surface of a semiconductor substrate to form an ion-implanted layer; activating at least a surface from which the ions have been implanted; bonding the surface of the semiconductor substrate and the surface of the sapphire substrate at a temperature of 50° C. to 350° C.; heating the bonded substrates at a maximum temperature from 200° C. to 350° C. to form a bonded body; and irradiating visible light from a sapphire substrate side or a semiconductor substrate side to the ion-implanted layer of the semiconductor substrate for embrittling an interface of the ion-implanted layer, while keeping the bonded body at a temperature higher than the temperature at which the surfaces of the semiconductor substrate and the sapphire substrate were bonded. | 11-21-2013 |
20140030870 | SOS SUBSTRATE HAVING LOW SURFACE DEFECT DENSITY - Method of making a bonded SOS substrate with a semiconductor film on or above a sapphire substrate by implanting ions from a surface of the semiconductor substrate to form an ion-implanted layer; activating at least a surface of one of the sapphire substrate and the semiconductor substrate from which the ions have been implanted; bonding the surface of the semiconductor substrate and the surface of the sapphire substrate at a temperature of from 50° C. to 350° C.; heating the bonded substrates at a maximum temperature of from 200° C. to 350° C.; and irradiating visible light from a sapphire substrate side or a semiconductor substrate side to the ion-implanted layer of the semiconductor substrate to make the interface of the ion-implanted layer brittle at a temperature of the bonded body higher than the temperature at which the surfaces were bonded, to transfer the semiconductor film to the sapphire substrate. | 01-30-2014 |
20140322546 | THERMALLY OXIDIZED HETEROGENEOUS COMPOSITE SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A thermally oxidized heterogeneous composite substrate provided with a single crystal silicon film on a handle substrate, said heterogeneous composite substrate being obtained by, prior to a thermal oxidization treatment at a temperature exceeding 850° C., conducting an intermediate heat: treatment at 650-850° C. and then conducting the thermal oxidization treatment at a temperature exceeding 850° C. | 10-30-2014 |
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20090221131 | Method for preparing substrate having monocrystalline film - Provided is a method for easily preparing a substrate comprising a monocrystalline film thereon or thereabove with almost no crystal defects without using a special substrate. More specifically, provided is a method for preparing a substrate comprising a monocrystalline film formed on or above a handle substrate, the method comprising: a step A of providing a donor substrate and the handle substrate; a step B of growing a monocrystalline layer on the donor substrate; a step C of implanting ions into the monocrystalline layer on the donor substrate so as to form an ion-implanted layer; a step D of bonding a surface of the monocrystalline layer of the ion-implanted donor substrate to a surface of the handle substrate; and a step E of peeling the bonded donor substrate at the ion-implanted layer existing in the monocrystalline layer so as to form the monocrystalline film on or above the handle substrate; wherein at least the steps A to E are repeated by using the handle substrate having the monocrystalline film formed thereon or thereabove as a donor substrate. | 09-03-2009 |
20090246935 | Method for producing soi substrate - Provided is a method for producing an SOI substrate comprising a transparent insulating substrate and a silicon film formed on a first major surface of the insulating substrate wherein a second major surface of the insulating substrate which is opposite to the major surface is roughened, the method suppressing the generation of metal impurities and particles in a simple and easy way. More specifically, provided is a method for producing an SOI substrate comprising a transparent insulating substrate, a silicon film formed on a first major surface of the transparent insulating substrate, and a roughened second major surface, which is opposite to the first major surface, the method comprising steps of: providing the transparent insulating substrate, mirror surface-processing at least the first major surface of the transparent insulating substrate, forming a silicon film on the first major surface of the transparent insulating substrate, and laser-processing the second major surface of the transparent insulating substrate so as to roughen the second major surface by using a laser. | 10-01-2009 |
20100244182 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LAMINATED WAFER BY HIGH TEMPERATURE LAMINATING METHOD - To provide a method of manufacturing a laminated wafer by which a strong coupling is achieved between wafers made of different materials having a large difference in thermal expansion coefficient without lowering a maximum heat treatment temperature as well as in which cracks or chips of the wafer does not occur. A method of manufacturing a laminated wafer | 09-30-2010 |
20140144188 | GLASS BASE MATERIAL MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - An apparatus for manufacturing a glass base material, which is a base material of an optical fiber, the glass base material having a core rod as a central axis, comprises a holding unit having a plurality of scroll chucks connected in series along the core rod for holding an end of the core rod; and a burner that hydrolyzes a gas material, which is a base material of the glass base material, into glass particles and accumulates the glass particles around the core rod to form the glass base material. | 05-29-2014 |