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Silicon wafer and method for manufacturing the same

US8142885B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateNov 29, 2007
Grant dateMar 27, 2012
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Expiry dateJan 25, 2031

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T428/24992
  • WIPO fieldSurface technology, coating
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

Silicon wafers and a process for their manufacture wherein both slip dislocation and occurrence of warpage are suppressed include heat treatment to provide wafers having plate-shaped BMDs, a density of BMDs whose diagonal lengths are in a range of 10 nm to 120 nm, of BMDs present in the bulk of the wafer at a distance of 50 μm or more is 1×1011/cm3 or more, and the density of BMDs whose diagonal lengths are 750 nm or more in the wafer bulk is 1×107/cm3 or less, and the interstitial oxygen concentration is 5×1017 atoms/cm3 or less. The process involves low and high temperature heat treating at under defined temperature ramping rates.

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