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Semiconductor device manufacturing method, semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus and semiconductor device

US6287988A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 17, 1998
Grant dateSep 11, 2001
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Expiry dateMar 17, 2018

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH10D64/693
  • WIPO fieldSemiconductors
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, which comprises a step of forming an oxide film by oxidizing a surface of semiconductor layer in an atmosphere containing an oxygen-activated species at a temperature of over 550.degree. C. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, which comprises the steps of forming an oxide film by oxidizing a surface of semiconductor in an atmosphere containing an oxygen-activated species, and removing the oxide film so as to expose a surface of the semiconductor. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device which comprises a step of feeding an oxidizing source gas comprising as a main component oxygen atomic radicals of singlet state in an excited state to a silicon layer thereby to oxidize a surface of the silicon layer, thus forming a silicon oxide film.

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