Electricity: measuring and testing – Fault detecting in electric circuits and of electric components – Of individual circuit component or element
Patent
1996-05-07
1998-09-08
Karlsen, Ernest F.
Electricity: measuring and testing
Fault detecting in electric circuits and of electric components
Of individual circuit component or element
G01R 31302
Patent
active
058049819
ABSTRACT:
The present method allows detection of heavy metal impurities introduced into a silicon wafer during an ion implantation procedure. The method is quick, non-destructive, and functions in the presence of extensive lattice damage created during ion implantation. A thermal treatment follows ion implantation to cause any heavy metal impurities to diffuse into near-surface regions adjacent to major surfaces. A major surface of the silicon wafer is subjected to a high-injection SPV frequency sweep procedure before and after the thermal treatment. During each high-injection SPV frequency sweep procedure, the major surface is subjected to a train of light pulses modulated at frequencies within a frequency range of interest spanning from a low frequency cutoff (about 280 Hz) to a high frequency cutoff (about 10 kHz). Surface charge values are derived from surface photovoltages measured at each modulation frequency. Ratios of surface charge values corresponding to endpoints of the frequency range of interest are used to gauge generation lifetimes before and after the thermal treatment. A decrease in generation lifetime following the thermal treatment indicates the introduction and subsequent diffusion of heavy metal contaminants into the near-surface region adjacent to the analyzed surface.
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Armour Norman L.
Lowell John K.
Sherry Julia
Advanced Micro Devices , Inc.
Daffer Kevin L.
Karlsen Ernest F.
Kobert Russell M.
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