Method and apparatus for doping silicon wafers using a solid dop

Details Method and apparatus for doping silicon wafers using a solid dop Method and apparatus for doping silicon wafers using a solid dop

1995-03-30

1996-08-27

Fourson, George

Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying

437950, H01L 21223

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055500820

ABSTRACT:
The present invention is, in part, a new process for dopant diffusion, both p-type (e.g., B) and n-type (e.g., P, As), into silicon wafers, using rapid thermal processing (RTP). It uses a surface layer of a new planar dopant as an active dopant source. Such a source is produced using either a rigid holder wafer with a spin-on dopant or CVD doped oxides deposited on its surface, or such a source is high pressure planar solid source having a surface that has been activated by dry etching or sputtering etching. Such a dopant source is placed in proximity to a processed silicon wafer in such a manner that its active surface is facing the surface of the silicon wafer during RTP. Both the silicon wafer and the dopant source are heated by lamps emitting light causing transport of dopant from the dopant source to the silicon surface. The dopant source may be produced using either silicon wafers, quartz or ceramic plates or planar solid diffusion sources which are commercially available in a form of solid discs containing compounds containing various dopant atoms (e.g., B, P, and As).

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