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- the invention relates to low-voltage substrate wafer with a defect-poor, active surface, a method too their preparation and their use and thus obtained electronic components, such as LEDs, transistors and chips.
- Electronic and electro-optical semiconductor elements such as lasers, high-speed transistors, LDs, LEDs and other complex components usually include a thin carrier or wafer substrate on which in particular terraced superimposed functional layers lie.
- Such functional layers are usually semiconductor or insulation or Leveling layers.
- the procedure is usually such that the wafer wafer from a block, cylinder or rod of the sawn out of respective substrate and then ground, lapped and polished to a possible to get even and smooth surface, the one Maximum elasticity or flatness and minimal roughness having.
- the grinding and polishing of the wafers is normally performed in such a way that the Wafer substrate is mounted in a holder, preferably rotated about its longitudinal axis and thereby optionally its direction of rotation changes, d. H.
- the wafer substrate is also used on one changing direction of rotation rotating grinding or polishing plate pressed, which equipped with a polishing pad is. In this way, the substrate surface to be coated becomes as evenly as possible and removed Smoothed, resulting in good to very good surfaces receive. Only then will those beforehand said functional layers on the solid, as a rule applied very thin substrate wafer.
- MOCVD organometallic Gas phase epitaxy
- MOCVPE metal organic chemical vapor phase epitaxy
- defects in the surface be it disturbances of the crystal structure, Impurities or even unevenness in the surface as well as other defects to faulty Jobs in the layer structure can lead, which the desired electrical, insulating and / or electro-optical Affect the function of the layers.
- a particularly suitable method for detecting this typical Defects is the interference microscopy (eg. using a Leica interference microscope, 160 times (16x10) magnification, resolution max. 0.8 ⁇ m).
- the invention therefore has the object of wafer substrates for the Production of electronic and / or electro-optical To provide semiconductor elements which oppose Temperature fluctuations in the coating with Epitaxy are insensitive and make up of semiconductor elements let that win in their semiconductor layers at least low in defects and in particular the surface are "pit" -free.
- this is achieved ensures that the substrates to be coated freely movable are arranged between polishing elements. On In this way, wafer substrates are obtained, which at a Coating, in particular in the epitaxy process, sometimes insensitive to temperature changes are, but also low-defect and in particular result in defect-free components.
- the Wafer substrates preferably on a support (support table with a support surface) and with a Pressed counter element on the support. It can either the support, the counter element or both as Polierwerkmaschine be formed. Preferably both are prepared as polishing tools. Between these Both elements (support element and counter element) can The substrates during polishing relatively move freely to the polishing tool in any direction. This free movement includes both two-dimensional linear as well as curved movements and rotations about one perpendicular to the wafer surface standing axis with a.
- the edition points preferably a boundary or an edge, the the pad limits on which the wafer substrate rests and on which the wafers are free during polishing can move without falling off the support.
- the pad preferably has one possible flat surface and is in particular completely planar.
- a preferred embodiment comprises one, at least a flat, holey recess having Guide disc, wherein the recess has a larger Diameter than the wafer to be processed.
- that forms Recess a the thickness of the plate penetrating hole Conveniently, such a guide plate several such recesses or holes, which means Punching or sawing are available. In these Recess or hole of the wafer to be treated is introduced.
- the hole in the guide disc acts as a cage or "carrier" within which the wafer or wafers are freely movable.
- the guide disc on the Edition loose, freely movable arranged, so too this in the polishing and grinding process in all Move and rotate spatial directions.
- the guide disc usually consists of metal and / or a Plastic.
- the wafer is in Polished form of a laminate. This is done by the wafer glued on a carrier. Preferably then lies at Polishing the carrier freely moving, sliding on the Edition and the pressure forces of the polishing tools act in a more or less vertical direction the wafer surface to be treated. In principle however, it is also readily possible that when polishing the wafer with its to be polished and later to Coating active surface sliding down freely is arranged on the carrier. In a special preferred embodiment is inventively as Carrier used another wafer, so that both the on the support adjacent (outer) surface of the one Wafers (carrier wafer) as well as the opposite outer surface of the other (second) wafer at the same time to be polished.
- the wafer laminates are guided freely movable in so-called cages or "carriers", the movements, which are constantly rotating as well as the requirements complete.
- both the edition works as well as the overlying counter element as a polishing tool in the polishing device.
- the polishing is preferably carried out with the aid of a polishing agent or polishing medium performed.
- a polish In principle, all common polishing media can be used as long as there are no scratches or other mechanical Cause damage in the wafer surface and a sufficient surface smoothness or minimum Create surface roughness while maintaining a flatness (flatness) of the wafer surface, which Grinding and lapping the wafer was not achieved destroy again, but improve.
- polishing are those induced by the grinding or lapping steps Deep damage, also SSD (Sub Surface Damage) called, worked out without disturbing new others Create damage. Beyond that the depth damage generated from the prepolishing process steps removed and an optimal germ density for ensured epitaxial coating.
- Polishing agents to be used in the process according to the invention preferably contain polishing bodies. These polishing bodies preferably have an average particle size with a diameter of 10-1000 nm, with particles having a diameter of 50-500 nm, in particular 150-300 nm, being particularly preferred. Such average diameters or particle sizes are usually determined optically in a known manner in the scattered light method. For example, a device of the company " Lambda Physics” (Göttingen, DE) offers the device “ Lambda 900 UV / Vis / IR " with integrating sphere as a measuring device.
- Preferred polishing agents are those used for treating silicon wafers, semiconductors, microchips, optical elements, and clock crystals and glass components.
- the polishing according to the invention is performed abrasive by means of the respective grinding bodies, whereby a desired layer thickness is removed at the surface.
- Preferred abrasive articles are colloidal silica, which is available as a slurry in standard industry standards.
- Such a product is, for example, from the company "Eminess Technologies, Inc.” under the designation “Ultra-Sol” ( www.eminess.com/products/us_slurry.html ) or also offered by the company “Rodel” with the trade name “NALCO” of the “Ondeo NALCO Company” (Naperville, IL, USA) ( www.rodel.com/rodel/products/Substrates ).
- these abrasives are used as a sol.
- the particle sizes vary between 20 and 300 nm.
- the abrasive usually has a pH of 5-11, preferably 6.5-11, and especially 8.5-10.5.
- a preferred buffer for adjusting the pH is bicarbonate.
- the polishing is usually carried out under pressure.
- the polishing tool is pressed onto the surface to be polished.
- Such pressures are usually 0.05-1 kg / cm 2 , in particular 0.1-0.6 kg / cm 2 , with 0.15-0.35 kg / cm 2 being particularly preferred.
- the polishing is usually done with a possibly oscillating Rotation speed of 5 - 200 rpm, in particular 10 to 80 rpm, whereby 20 to 50 RPM are particularly preferred. Usual polishing times can last up to 10 hours, with polishing times up to 4, especially up to 2.5 hours, particularly preferred are.
- Abtragsdicken of 0.5 - 5 microns / h, in particular 0.8-3 ⁇ m / h, and in particular removal rates of 1 - 2 ⁇ m / h.
- the polishing according to the invention is preferably at Temperatures of below 100 ° C, preferably below 50 ° C, with temperatures below 25 ° C are particularly preferred. Especially preferred is to perform the polishing at room temperature of 20 ° C, with deviations of +/- 8 ° C, in particular +/- 5 ° C and preferably +/- 2 ° C are quite possible.
- the temperature at which the wafers are polished is critical once the consistency of the abrasive, for example, by agglomeration of the abrasive particles and / or increasing the viscosity, substantially changes.
- Substrates become a wafer on a freely movable Carrier, in particular a polishing plate or else releasably connected to another wafer.
- an adhesive It is the Adhesive layer thickness preferably 0.5-5 ⁇ m, wherein 0.8 - 3 microns, and especially 1 - 2 microns particularly preferred is.
- the adhesive is preferably softenable by heating, so that the wafers bonded for polishing or wafer and carrier by increasing the temperature let solve again.
- the adhesive preferably a softening temperature below 150 ° C, especially below 120 ° C, in particular of ⁇ 100 ° C.
- the glue should be selected in the method according to the invention such that this has a softening temperature, at least 10 ° C, preferably at least 20 ° C above the temperature at which the surface is polished.
- a preferred adhesive shows pressure, shear and / or elastic properties.
- wax and / or rosin are particularly preferred.
- Mixtures thereof are particularly preferred.
- usable waxes can be both herbal as well as animal and / or mineral waxes, if necessary also mixtures thereof.
- Useful vegetable waxes Candelila, Cornauba, Japan, Esparto, Cork, guaruma, rice germ oil waxes etc are preferred animal waxes are especially beeswax, spermaceti, Lanolin as well as raffia fat.
- Useful mineral waxes are ceresin, petrolatum, paraffin and microwaxes as well as fossil waxes. Such waxes can both of course, as well as chemically altered or completely be synthetic.
- Beeswax which has a melting point of 60-70 ° C or 63 - 65 ° C, as well as similar waxes with a similar composition or similar properties.
- wax esters the contain as alcohol component in particular 1-triacontanol, which in particular with palmitic and cerotic acid is esterified.
- Wax esters of hydroxy fatty acids such as ceryl hydroxypalmitate and derivatives thereof verwenbar.
- the adhesive to be used according to the invention is preferably removable from the wafer substrate.
- the removal For example, by liquefying the Heating can be achieved and / or through use more suitable the wafer or the properties of the Wafer's non-damaging solvent.
- preferred wafer substrates are crystalline wafer substrates, with crystalline Al 2 O 3 (sapphire) and SiC crystals being particularly preferred.
- Al 2 O 3 crystals are usually obtained by the known cultivation methods such as, for example, the Czochralskitechnik.
- the method according to the invention is independent of its preparation and the preceding treatment steps for any wafer substrates and leads to the desired good results.
- the method according to the invention it is possible to produce wafer substrates which are suitable for the production of electrical and / or electro-optical components with semiconductor layer systems, which are extremely low in defects and in particular a pit density of ⁇ 1000 / cm 2 , especially ⁇ 500 / cm 2 , where ⁇ 100 / cm 2 is particularly preferred.
- a particularly preferred polishing method according to the invention is carried out by means of CMP (chemical-mechanical polishing).
- CMP chemical-mechanical polishing
- silicon colloids which were hydrolyzed by a sol-gel method of methyl silicates and 100-200 ppm ammonium salts in an alcohol / water solution to finely dispersive colloid, are preferably used.
- a common solution contains 25% of such colloids, the particle size being between 550 nm, in particular between 250 nm.
- Bacterial formation can be prevented for example by the addition of hydrogen peroxide.
- colloids are commercially available. It is important to ensure that agglomeration, for example by dehydration or condensation of the silicon colloids is avoided, which can lead to the formation of scratches on the substrate surfaces.
- the SiO 2 reacts with Al 2 O 3 to form an Al 2 Si 2 O 7 aluminosilicate, which is softer than the sapphire (Al 2 O 3 ).
- Al 2 O 3 aluminosilicate
- it is easy to remove by polishing with mechanical pressure.
- the invention also relates to the substrate wafer obtained by means of the method according to the invention and its use for the production of electronic components in high-temperature and high-power electronics, in lasers and in high-intensity light-emitting diodes.
- the invention also relates to the use of such wafers for the production of solar cells.
- the invention also relates to electronic Semiconductor components, one or more of each other arranged on a substrate low-defect layers includes semiconducting materials and by means of the process according to the invention is available. This includes in particular the production of a single crystal and optionally annealing the single crystal such a single crystal to wafer substrate discs, Grinding and / or lapping and polishing the discs including the final polishing and cleaning according to the invention at least one of the disc surfaces.
- FIG. 1 An inventive method is in the accompanying Figure 1 shown.
- the resulting laminate 10, 20, 30 has outer surfaces 12, 22 and inner surfaces glued together 14, 24, and lies on one about an axis 48 rotating polishing plate 40 on.
- the polishing plate is at its outer edge with walls 44 which provide a Falling out of the wafer laminate and / or the guide disc prevent. This is done through a targeted Fixation and guidance of the wafers on the plate and will preferably by plastic discs, so-called cages or "Carrier" reached (not shown).
- On its inner surface 42 contains the polishing plate a polishing agent 50 containing fine particles.
- the polishing plate may possibly also have an eccentric rotation perform, but with alternating rotations Turning directions, d. H. oscillatory rotations preferred are.
- a pressure plate acts on the wafer laminate 60, which at its lower side 62 likewise an abrasive 50.
- the pressure plate 60 rotates or also oscillates about a longitudinal axis 66.
- the polishing agents are preferably applied to a cloth (not shown) applied. Such polishing cloths For example, consist of commercially available polyurethane towels.
- the CMP process is preferably as a multi-level Procedure carried out, the grain size is reduced.
- a common reduction in grain size ranges from 100 - 10 nm, with a reduction of 600 - 40, in particular 500 - 50 nm is particularly preferred.
- the polishing process according to the invention the grain size in at least two stages, preferably reduced to three levels.
- Figure 2a shows the surface of a LED (Light Emitting Diode) structure processed according to the invention Wafer surface (see Table 2)
- Figure 2b the in Table 2 described surface of a LED coated commercially available comparative wafer (Comparative wafer No. 3).
- FIG. 3 shows interference microscopy Recordings of those described in Table 3 HEMT (High Electron Mobility Transistor) structures, the epitaxially processed on sapphire substrates according to the invention (Fig. 3a) and commercial comparison material (Fig. 3b-c) at temperatures of 50 K. above the optimum process temperature specified by the manufacturer have grown up.
- HEMT High Electron Mobility Transistor
- FIG. 4 a shows the respective surface quality of a commercially available sapphire substrate after carrying out a standard polishing process, as is commercially available, and FIG. 4 b of the same wafer after polishing according to the invention has been carried out.
- the sapphire substrate polished according to the invention shows the homogeneous-symmetrical surface structure which is particularly preferred for an epitaxial coating.
- the surface of the inventively polished substrate not only has a much lower roughness of 0.2 nm, but also a much greater flatness of 5 microns over the entire diameter of 2 or 4 "on.
- a sapphire crystal with a diameter of 55 mm and a length of 200 mm was grown by means of the Czochralskimethode and then annealed, as described in the unpublished DE-A 103 06 801.5 of the same applicant. Subsequently, the monocrystal thus obtained was sawed in a manner known per se, into thin disks of thickness 0.5 mm and ground and lapped according to the usual methods used for the production of sapphire wafers, as described, for example, in F. Schmid et al. US Pat 6,418,921 B1 . Thereafter, the wafers were subjected to a polishing method of the present invention as follows.
- Two wafer substrates each were attached to one Glued side together.
- As an adhesive was a Rosin beeswax blend with a softening point used by 80 ° C, in an adhesive thickness of about 2 microns.
- This laminate was then prepolished in a silicon suspension with particle sizes of 250-300 nm for 1.5 hours chemical-mechanical and then polished in a further polishing machine with the colloidal silicon suspension with particle sizes of 80 nm chemical-mechanical with variable polishing time. Both processes took place at process pressures of 0.1-0.3 kg / cm 2 and rotational speeds of the polishing plates of 50-150 rpm. In this case, the wafer substrates were bonded together by means of different mixing ratios, which have different softening temperatures. The adhesives were adjusted so that their softening temperature for the separation required a force of not more than 1 Kp (per 5 cm wafer [equivalent to 20 cm 2 ]).
- the wafer substrates obtained according to the invention were coated with HEMT functional layers by means of a conventional process under the same conditions in a multiwafer MOCVD plant, wherein, however, the process temperature was varied during the coating time.
- Table 3 It was found that in wafers which were treated by the method according to the invention, the process temperature in a wide range, ie can fluctuate up to 50 ° C, without causing growth errors. In the wafers of the prior art, even slight changes in the coating lead to a large number of growth defects, as documented in FIGS. 3a-3c and Table 3. This surprising difference is achieved exclusively by means of the polishing method according to the invention.
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Das erfindungsgemäß polierte Saphirsubstrat zeigt hierbei die für eine epitaktische Beschichtung besonders bevorzugte, homogen-symmetrische Oberflächenstruktur. Dabei weist die Oberfläche des erfindungsgemäß polierten Substrates nicht nur eine wesentlich geringere Rauhigkeit von 0,2 nm, sondern auch eine wesentlich größere Ebenheit von 5 µm über den gesamten Durchmesser von 2 bzw. 4" auf. Demgegenüber zeigt ein Vergleich mit dem Stand der Technik (Spezifikation handelsübliche Substrate) eine Rauhigkeit von ca. 0,3 nm und eine Ebenheit von 7-8 µm bei 2" Wafern bzw. bis zu 10 µm bei 4" Wafern über den gesamten Durchmesser.
Erweichungstemperatur (°C) des Klebstoffes | Polierdruck (kg/cm2) | Polierzeit (h) für Abtrag von 2 µm | Pitdichte (Anzahl/cm2 im Zentrum) |
60 | 0,1 | 2,5 | 250 |
80 | 0,2 | 1 | 15 |
100 | 0,25 | 0,75 | 750 |
120 | 0,3 | 0,5 | 3500 |
120 | 0,25 | 0,75 | 3000 |
50 | 0,1 | 2,5 | 215 |
Herstellungsverfahren | Pits/cm2 im Zentrum |
Vergleichswafer 1 (handelsüblich) | 2300 |
Vergleichswafer 2 (handelsüblich) | 1800 |
Vergleichswafer 3 (handelsüblich) | 2000 |
Erfindungsgemäßer Wafer | 0 |
Prozessfenster [K] | Wachstumsfehler/cm2 erfindungsgemäß | Wachstumsfehler/cm2 Vergleichsbeispiel 1 | Wachstumsfehler/cm2 Vergleichsbeispiel 2 | Wachstumsfehler/cm2 Vergleichsbeispiel 3 |
50 | 0 | 300 | 330 | 303 |
30 | 0 | 200 | 220 | 230 |
20 | 0 | 100 | 107 | 104 |
10 | 0 | 50 | 20 | 50 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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- Verfahren zur Herstellung von insbesonders spannungsarmen Waferscheiben mit mindestens einer auf an sich bekannte Weise zu beschichtenden aktiven Oberfläche, wobei die aktive Oberfläche arm an Beschichtungsfehler erzeugenden Defekten ist, umfassend ein Glätten der Oberfläche mittels eines Polierschritts, bei dem die aktive Oberfläche mittels eines Polierelements poliert wird, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Waferoberfläche mit einer sich ändernden Polierrichtung vom Polierwerkzeug derart überstrichen wird, dass jede Stelle der Oberfläche in jeder Richtung eines 360°Vollwinkels statistisch gleichmäßig überstrichen wird.
- Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass beim Polieren der Wafer, bezogen auf das Polierwerkzeug, frei beweglich angeordnet ist.
- Verfahren nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Wafer beim Polieren frei beweglich in zweidimensionaler Richtung und frei drehbar angeordnet ist.
- Verfahren nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Wafer ein Saphirkristall, oder ein Siliziumcarbidkristall ist.
- Verfahren nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass mit einem Druck von 0,05 bis 1,0 kg/cm2 poliert wird.
- Verfahren nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Wafer an dem frei beweglichen Träger mittels einem Adhäsiv befestigt wird.
- Verfahren nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Adhäsiv eine Dicke von 1 bis 2 µm aufweist.
- Verfahren nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Träger ein zweiter mit seiner Rückseite verklebter Wafer ist und beide an ihren Oberflächen gemeinsam poliert werden.
- Verfahren nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass als Poliermittel ein kolloidales Silikasol mit einer Teilchengröße von 500 bis 50 nm verwendet wird.
- Substratwafer für defektfreie Halbleiterbauelemente, erhältlich nach dem Verfahren nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 9.
- Verwendung des Wafers nach Anspruch 10 zur Herstellung von elektronischen Bauteilen in der Hochtemperatur- und Hochenergietechnik, in Lasern und in lichtstarken Leuchtdioden.
- Elekronisches Halbleiterbauteil, umfassend ein Substrat sowie eine oder mehrere übereinanderliegende darauf angeordnete defektarme Schichten aus halbleitenden Materialien erhältlich durch Herstellen eines Einkristalles und ggf. Tempern des Einkristalles, Zerteilen des Einkristalles zu Scheiben, Schleifen und/oder Läppen und Polieren sowie Tempern der so erhaltenen Scheiben, Endpolieren und Reinigen mindestens einer Scheibenoberfläche, sowie anschließende Beschichtung der Oberfläche mit halbleitenden Materialien, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das defektarme Halbleiterelement durch ein Polierverfahren nach einem der Ansprüche 1 - 9 erhältlich ist.
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