Method and apparatus for diffusing zinc into groups III-V compound semiconductor crystals
US6214708A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 29, 1999 |
| Grant date | Apr 10, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 29, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH01L21/2233
- WIPO fieldSemiconductors
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An LPE (Liquid Phase Epitaxy) apparatus is diverted to a Zn-diffusion apparatus for diffusing Zn into III-V group compound semiconductor. The Zn-diffusion apparatus comprises a base plank extending in a direction, having a wafer-storing cavity for storing an object wafer and an exhaustion hole for exhaling gases, a slider having a frame and a cap plate for attaching to or detaching from the frame, the frame having serially aligning M rooms with an open bottom and a rack being separated from each other by (M-1) partition walls, a manipulating bar for sliding the slider upon the base plank forward or backward in the direction, a tube for enclosing the base plank and the slider and for being capable of being made vacuous, a heater surrounding the tube for heating the slider, each rack of the rooms being allocated with a Zn-diffusion material and a V element material (or a non-doped capping wafer) in turn for aligning the rooms into repetitions of a V element room and a diffusion room. The V element room or the capping wafer covers and protects the object wafer during the heating step. During the diffusion step, the diffusion room covers the object wafer for diffusing Zn into the wafer…
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