Patent · US Expired

Method of making semiconductor device

US4247373A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 12, 1979
Grant dateJan 27, 1981
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Expiry dateJun 12, 1999

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01L21/02258
  • WIPO fieldSemiconductors
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An epitaxial layer having a specified conductivity type formed on a semiinsulative or high resistivity semiconductor substrate or insulative substrate is anodized (anodically oxidized) by a predetermined D.C. current under an illumination of light of a predetermined intensity, thereby a depletion layer is formed beneath an oxide layer, which is formed by the anodizing, and the anodizing ceases in areas where the bottom face of the depletion layer reaches the semiinsulative or high resistivity semiconductor substrate or insulative substrate thus retaining a layer of highly uniform thickness layer of the epitaxial grown layer on the substrate.

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