Semiconductor device manufacturing: process – Making field effect device having pair of active regions... – On insulating substrate or layer
Reexamination Certificate
2008-05-20
2008-05-20
Schillinger, Laura M. (Department: 2813)
Semiconductor device manufacturing: process
Making field effect device having pair of active regions...
On insulating substrate or layer
C438S151000, C438S166000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10713219
ABSTRACT:
When a gettering sink is removed by using alkaline solution of etchant having a high selectivity to the gettering sink and a barrier film functioning as an etching stopper, residue of gettering is left. However, according to the present invention, a semiconductor film that serves as a gettering sink contains nitrogen at concentration of 1×1018atoms/cm3or lower, oxygen at concentration of 8×1019atoms/cm3or lower, and noble gas at concentration is of 1×1020atoms/cm3or higher. In order to achieve the above-described impurity concentrations, a concentration of oxygen that is an impurity element in a chamber is reduced by using a flammable gas for heating and exhausting oxygen.
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Akimoto Kengo
Maekawa Shinji
Costellia Jeffrey L.
Nixon & Peabody LLP
Schillinger Laura M.
Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co,. Ltd.
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