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Method of reduced stress recrystallization

US4888302A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 29, 1989
Grant dateDec 19, 1989
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Expiry dateMar 29, 2009

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S148/152
  • WIPO fieldSemiconductors
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A defect free monocrystalline layer of silicon on an insulator is produced by forming a thin layer of silicon dioxide on a monocrystalline silicon substrate, forming a thin layer of polycrystalline or amorphous silicon on the silicon dioxide layer and focussing two beams from lamps on the thin silicon layer to form a line image providing a melt zone surrounded by two narrow heated zones having temperatures lower than the melt zone and having a temperature differential of from 2.degree.-10.degree. C./mm decreasing form the melt zone while heating the substrate to a temperature below that of the zones heated by the lamps and scanning the structure.

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