Semiconductor device manufacturing: process – Bonding of plural semiconductor substrates
Patent
1996-08-09
1998-09-08
Dang, Trung
Semiconductor device manufacturing: process
Bonding of plural semiconductor substrates
438406, 148DIG12, H01L 2130
Patent
active
058044949
ABSTRACT:
A method of fabricating a bonded wafer which is capable of reducing the concentrations of impurities, and more particularly the boron concentration, at the interface of bonding in the bonded wafer, wherein first and second wafers to be bonded are finish-cleaned, then the wafers are temporarily stored in a closed box so as to isolate the wafers from clean-room air, thereafter the first and second wafers are superposed in a clean atmosphere which is held out of direct contact with clean-room air, and finally the superposed first and second wafers are bonded together by a heat-treatment.
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Katayama Masatake
Mitani Kiyoshi
Nakazawa Kazushi
Dang Trung
Shin-Etsu Handotai & Co., Ltd.
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