EP4128322A1 - Procede de preparation d'une couche mince - Google Patents
Procede de preparation d'une couche minceInfo
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- H10P90/00—Preparation of wafers not covered by a single main group of this subclass, e.g. wafer reinforcement
- H10P90/19—Preparing inhomogeneous wafers
- H10P90/1904—Preparing vertically inhomogeneous wafers
- H10P90/1906—Preparing SOI wafers
- H10P90/1914—Preparing SOI wafers using bonding
- H10P90/1916—Preparing SOI wafers using bonding with separation or delamination along an ion implanted layer, e.g. Smart-cut
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- H10P54/00—Cutting or separating of wafers, substrates or parts of devices
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- H10P95/00—Generic processes or apparatus for manufacture or treatments not covered by the other groups of this subclass
- H10P95/90—Thermal treatments, e.g. annealing or sintering
- H10P95/906—Thermal treatments, e.g. annealing or sintering for altering the shape of semiconductors, e.g. smoothing the surface
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- H10W—GENERIC PACKAGES, INTERCONNECTIONS, CONNECTORS OR OTHER CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF DEVICES COVERED BY CLASS H10
- H10W10/00—Isolation regions in semiconductor bodies between components of integrated devices
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- H10W10/181—Semiconductor-on-insulator [SOI] isolation regions, e.g. buried oxide regions of SOI wafers
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- the present invention relates to a process for preparing a thin film transferred onto a support substrate by applying the Smart Cut TM technology.
- a thin film is prepared by introducing light species through a main face of a donor substrate to form a buried weakened area.
- the thin layer is defined, in this donor substrate, between the buried weakened zone and the main face of the substrate.
- the donor substrate is assembled on a second substrate, called a “recipient”, and a separation heat treatment is applied to this assembly, possibly assisted by mechanical stresses, in order to cause the initiation and propagation of a fracture wave. at the level of the buried weakened zone to release the thin layer which is thus transferred onto the receiving substrate.
- the thermal separation treatment has the effect of promoting the growth and pressurization of microcavities, the development of which is linked to the presence of light species in the weakened zone. This effect is at the origin of the initiation and the propagation of the fracture wave leading to the release of the thin layer.
- the state of the exposed surface of the thin film transferred to the receiving substrate is irregular, which is generally not entirely satisfactory.
- a process implementing Smart Cut technology therefore generally provides for an additional finishing step aimed at reducing these surface irregularities. It may thus be a question of treating the exposed surface of the thin layer, during this finishing step, by mechanical-chemical polishing or by annealing at high temperature, typically of the order of 1100 ° C., by exposing it to a reducing or neutral atmosphere.
- Document FR3061988 proposes a process for finishing a thin layer prepared using Smart Cut technology, as has just been presented.
- it is proposed to apply a heat treatment of moderate amplitude to the thin film, less than 950 degrees and in a reducing or neutral atmosphere, directly after it has been released from the donor substrate.
- the free surface of the thin layer not having been exposed to the ambient atmosphere, it has not oxidized and the atoms which constitute it are very mobile to reorganize and smooth the surface.
- This heat treatment therefore proves to be particularly effective, even at relatively low temperature, for smoothing the surface released from the thin layer.
- Document FR2876307 provides for a similar heat treatment, directly after the thin layer has been released from the donor substrate.
- Irregularities can also find their origins in the interaction between the propagation of the fracture wave and the acoustic vibrations encountered in the assembly to be fractured. at the time of the fracture. These vibrations are caused by the sudden release of energy when the thin film fractures. The fracture wave is then liable to be deflected vertically from its plane of progression according to the instantaneous stress state of the material it passes through. Reference may be made to the article “Crack Front Interaction with Self-Emitted Acoustic Waves”, Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society, 2018, 121. (19), pp. 195501, for a detailed analysis of this mechanism.
- the irregularities caused by this phenomenon are of relatively large dimensions, and constitute a non-uniformity of thickness of the thin layer, the amplitude of which may be of the order of a nanometer and the wavelength of a millimeter, or even of a centimeter.
- the handling of the support substrate carrying the thin layer and of the residue of the donor substrate, after the embrittlement step and after these two parts are separated from each other can also cause damage. , for example scratches or particles, on the surface released from the thin film.
- the present invention seeks to remedy at least in part the limitations which have just been mentioned of this state of the art.
- the object of the invention provides a process for preparing a thin layer comprising the following steps:
- an embrittlement step comprising the introduction of light species through a main face of a donor substrate, the step aiming to form an embrittled zone in a central portion of the donor substrate to define the thin layer with the main face of the donor substrate.
- donor substrate, the weakened zone not extending into a peripheral portion of the donor substrate;
- the method also comprises:
- the separation step comprising a heat treatment leading to initiate and propagate a fracture wave in the weakened zone to release the thin layer of the donor substrate at the level of its central portion only, the fracture wave not propagating entirely in the peripheral portion so that the donor substrate and the recipient substrate remain integral with one another at the level of the peripheral portion of the donor substrate;
- the detachment step comprising the treatment of the assembly to be fractured in order to disassemble the peripheral portion of the donor substrate (2) from the recipient substrate (5) and thus transfer the thin film (1) onto the receiving substrate (5).
- the method comprises a finishing step, this step comprising a heat treatment aimed at bringing the assembly to be fractured to a temperature above the temperature of the heat treatment of the separation step in order to smooth the freed surface of the thin layer;
- the finishing step implements a heat treatment exposing the donor substrate to a temperature below 1000 ° C, 950 ° C, 900 ° C, or 600 ° C;
- the separation step and the finishing step are carried out in the same equipment; the separation step and the finishing step are carried out in separate equipment; - the finishing step is applied after the detachment step;
- the donor substrate is a circular wafer and the peripheral portion is an annular portion, the width of which taken from the edge of the substrate is between 1mm and 5cm;
- the donor substrate comprises a peripheral chamfer on the side of its main face, and the peripheral portion extends from the chamfer over a width of between 1mm and 5cm;
- the light species are chosen from the list made up of hydrogen and helium;
- the donor substrate is made of monocrystalline silicon
- the separation step implements a heat treatment exposing the donor substrate to a temperature between 250 ° C and 500 ° C;
- the detachment step is carried out by chemical etching or by applying a force to disassemble the support substrate and the donor substrate.
- FIG. 1 represents the steps of a method in accordance with the invention
- FIG. 2 represents the central portion and the peripheral portion of a donor substrate.
- This method comprises the supply, during a preliminary step S1, of a donor substrate 2, this substrate having a main face 2a.
- the donor substrate 2 may consist of a single crystal silicon wafer, in particular in the case where the process for preparing the thin film aims to manufacture a silicon-on-insulator substrate.
- This wafer may have undergone prior treatments, such as oxidation, the formation of a surface layer by epitaxy or by deposition or any other surface preparation step.
- the invention is however in no way limited to a donor substrate 2 consisting of a silicon wafer, and the latter may be freely chosen in its nature and in its form according to the intended application. It can thus be a substrate comprising any monocrystalline semiconductor material, for example silicon carbide or germanium. It can also be an insulating material such as a piezoelectric material, such as lithium tantalate or lithium niobate.
- the donor substrate can thus take the form of a circular wafer, the diameter of which can be any, from a few tens of millimeters to 300mm or 450mm or more. It can take another shape, square or rectangular.
- the donor substrate 2 may have undergone preliminary stages of polishing, deposition, oxidation, and therefore be formed of a stack of heterogeneous layers.
- the donor substrate 2 can have a chamfered contour 2b as is common in the field of wafers of semiconductor materials in order to avoid its chipping during its handling.
- the chamfer 2b can extend over several millimeters around the periphery of the substrate.
- two portions can be distinguished in a donor substrate 2 according to the present description: a central portion 2c and a peripheral portion 2p.
- These portions 2c, 2p extend from one face to the other of the substrate and project onto the main face 2a of the substrate in any shape, insofar as the peripheral portion 2p entirely surrounds the central portion 2c.
- the central portion 2c can thus project, as shown in FIG. 2, onto the main face 2a of a donor substrate 2 (here in the form of a circular plate) to form a disc, centered on this face, and the peripheral portion 2p, forming an annular surface, concentric with the disc defining the central portion 2c, and extending to the edge of the substrate 2.
- the central portion 2c and the peripheral portion 2p are intended to be brought into contact with a receiving substrate, so as to assemble the two substrates to one another.
- the peripheral portion 2p therefore extends radially from the edge of the substrate towards its center, beyond this chamfer, in order to allow this contact to be made.
- the peripheral portion 2p of the donor substrate 2 may have a width of between 1 mm and several centimeters, for example 5 cm, taken from the edge of the chamfer when this chamfer exists, or from the edge of the substrate in the opposite case.
- the peripheral portion 2 p is defined as an annular portion, of which the width taken from the inside edge of the chamfer is between 1mm and 5cm, so that this peripheral zone can come into contact with a receiving substrate having at least the same dimension.
- the portion disposed inside the annular portion forms the central portion 2c of the donor substrate 2.
- a method in accordance with the present description comprises an embrittlement step S2 comprising the introduction of light species through a main face 2a of a donor substrate 2.
- This step aims to form a weakened zone. 3 and buried in the donor substrate 2.
- the weakened zone 3 extends in a plane of the donor substrate 2 essentially parallel to the main face 2a of this substrate 2.
- the weakened zone 3 defines, with the main face 2a of the donor substrate 2 , at least part of the thin layer 1 which is intended to be prepared.
- the light species are typically chosen from the list formed of hydrogen and helium, without this being limiting.
- These light species are generally introduced into the donor substrate 2 by ion implantation, although other methods of introduction are also possible (by plasma, by diffusion).
- the implantation energy defines the depth of penetration of the ions into the material of the donor substrate 2, and therefore the depth of the buried plane in which the weakened zone 3 is located.
- the introduction When the introduction is carried out by ion implantation, provision can be made for this introduction to be carried out in a single step, for example to implant a single dose of hydrogen or a single dose of helium, or in a plurality of successive steps, for example to implant a dose of hydrogen then another dose of helium.
- dose will denote the total quantity of species introduced into a unit area of the donor substrate, for example the number of light species implanted. per cm A 2.
- the weakening step S2 is carried out so that, at the end of this step, the weakened zone 3 is located in the central portion 2c of the donor substrate 2 and that it does not extend not in the peripheral portion 2p.
- the weakened zone 3 is located in the central portion 2c of the donor substrate 2 and that it does not extend not in the peripheral portion 2p.
- the embrittlement step S2 is carried out by differentiating the dose introduced into the central portion 2c from that introduced into the peripheral portion 2p.
- the weakening step S2 can thus comprise the introduction of a first dose of light species into the central portion 2c of the donor substrate 2 and the introduction of a second dose of light species, less than the first dose, in the peripheral portion 2p of this substrate 2.
- the first dose of light species is chosen so that it is sufficient, during a subsequent separation step S4, to release the thin layer 1 from the donor substrate 1 at the level of the weakened zone placed in the central portion 2c. This dose therefore leads to forming the weakened zone 3 in the central zone 2c.
- the second dose of light species introduced into the peripheral portion 2p is for its part chosen so that it does not allow this detachment in the peripheral portion 2p. This dose therefore does not lead to forming a weakened zone within the meaning of the present description.
- the peripheral portion 2p of the donor substrate 2 can comprise light species, implanted or introduced in any other way, but these species are not present. in a sufficient concentration in this portion 2p to form an embrittlement zone within the meaning of the present application, and it cannot in particular cause the separation of the donor substrate 2 at the level of this portion 2p.
- the second dose of light species can be zero, and in this case the light species are introduced only into the central portion 2c of the donor substrate 2 and not in the peripheral portion 2p.
- the peripheral portion 2p can be masked with the aid of a screen material forming a barrier to the penetration of light species, when the introduction of these species is carried out by ion implantation.
- This mask can be made of Teflon, aluminum or carbon. It can also be formed from a sacrificial mask 4 made of resin, hard oxide or nitride placed at the level of the peripheral portion 2p of the main face 2a of the donor substrate 2 at least, it being understood that this mask will be removed at least. the outcome of this weakening step S2.
- the mask may be present only during some of the implantation phases.
- the introduction of the light species into the donor substrate 2 can be carried out by scanning a beam comprising such light species on the main face 2a of the donor substrate 2.
- the movement of the beam can be controlled so that the peripheral portion 2p of the donor substrate 2 is excluded from any implantation or that a lower dose of species is introduced into this portion 2p that of species introduced in the central portion 2c.
- the nature of the species and the exact doses of these species introduced into the central portion 2c and into the peripheral portion 2p are chosen according to the nature of the donor substrate and according to the characteristics of the subsequent separation step S4.
- the separation step implements a heat treatment exposing the donor substrate 2 to a temperature between 250 ° C and 500 ° C, the following conditions are possible:
- H between 0.5E16 and 2E16 at / cm 2 ; He between 0.5E16 and 2E16 at / cm 2 .
- Peripheral portion H: between 0 and 1E16 at / cm 2 ; He between 0.5E16 and 2E16 at / cm 2 .
- the embrittlement step S2 can comprise the introduction, during a first sub-step, of the same dose of light species in the central portion 2c of the donor substrate 2 and in the peripheral portion 2p of this substrate 2.
- This conventional dose for example of the order of 5E16 at / cm A 2 of hydrogen when the donor substrate 2 is made of silicon, is sufficient to form a weakened zone 3 extending in the central zone 2c and in the peripheral zone 2p.
- the peripheral portion 2p of the donor substrate 2 is treated to render the light species introduced into the peripheral portion 2p inoperative. It may be a question of treating this peripheral portion, for example using a laser, to diffuse the light species introduced beforehand into this zone, and effectively eliminate the weakened zone 3 of this peripheral portion 2p.
- the peripheral portion can be treated to damage the weakened zone disposed in this portion, for example by implanting relatively heavy species, such as silicon species.
- relatively heavy species such as silicon species.
- a donor substrate 2 is available comprising an embrittled zone 3 buried located in a central portion 2c of the donor substrate 2.
- the weakened zone 3 defining with the main face 2a of the donor substrate 2 the thin layer 1, and the weakened zone 3 not extending into the peripheral portion
- the donor substrate thus prepared is assembled to a recipient substrate 5 by bringing the main face 2a of the donor substrate 2 into contact with one face of the recipient substrate 5.
- the recipient substrate 5 can be of any type and of any suitable shape insofar as it has a face of sufficient size to be brought into contact with the central portion 2c and at least part of the peripheral portion 2p of the donor substrate 2 .
- This assembly can be carried out by any method, for example by molecular adhesion, by application on at least one of the faces to be assembled of an adhesive material, by eutectic bonding when the faces to be assembled have been prepared beforehand to present a metallic surface.
- the assembly step S3 can also provide for conditioning the faces of the two substrates, by cleaning, activation or any other preparation step, to facilitate this assembly and to secure the two substrates to each other with an energy of sufficient adhesion.
- the assembly may consist of the gradual formation of the recipient substrate 5 by depositing, at moderate temperature, the material constituting said substrate 5 on the main face 2a of the donor substrate 2.
- the “assembly to be fractured” will denote the assembly formed of the donor substrate 2 and of the recipient substrate 5 at the end of this step S3.
- the assembly to be fractured is heat treated during a separation step S4.
- the heat treatment generates the development of microcavities, the coalescence of these microcavities when there are enough of them and their pressurization by the light species available, as is conventional in the implementation of Smart Cut technology.
- the buried weakened zone 3 does not however extend over the entire extent of the donor substrate 2. The heat treatment therefore results in the thin layer 1 being released from the donor substrate 2 at its central zone 2c. only, but not at the peripheral zone 2p.
- the heat treatment of the separation step S4 can be applied by placing the assembly to be fractured in a conventional oven for a period which can be between several minutes and several hours.
- a large number of assemblies to be fractured are generally available in a nacelle, and this nacelle is placed in a furnace or in a large capacity oven to collectively apply the heat treatment to the assemblies to be fractured, to the temperature and for the chosen duration.
- the fracture wave which is initiated during this separation step S4 does not propagate from one end of the donor substrate 2 to the other, and the residue from the substrate is not suddenly released.
- donor that is to say the donor substrate from which the thin layer has been removed
- the fracture wave does not propagate entirely in the peripheral portion 2p of the donor substrate 2, which therefore remains firmly assembled to the recipient substrate 5 at the level of this portion 2p.
- the recipient substrate 5 and the donor substrate 2 therefore remain assembled to each other at the end of the separation step S4, although the thin layer 1 has been actually released.
- the generation of acoustic waves, the oscillations and the beats of these substrates are therefore limited.
- the harmful interactions between the fracture wave and the acoustic waves are reduced or eliminated, and the impacts or slippage of the substrates which lead, in the processes of the state of the art, to create irregularities or damage are also avoided. on the surface of the thin film which is difficult to reduce by applying a simple heat treatment.
- the characteristic of the method according to which the fracture wave does not propagate entirely in the peripheral portion 2p of the donor substrate 2 is perfectly verifiable, because in this case, it is not possible to remove the residue of the donor substrate from the recipient substrate, that is to say to separate them from one another.
- This perfectly verifiable nature of this characteristic allows the person skilled in the art, with the aid of few experiments which are very simple to carry out and in addition to the examples provided in the present description, to determine the parameters of the steps of the process, in particular the 'extent of the peripheral zone, the doses of light species to be introduced respectively into the central zone and into the peripheral zone, the intensity of the heat treatment of the separation step S4, etc.
- the space 6 between the surfaces freed from the thin layer 1 and from the donor substrate 2 is filled with the light species at the origin of the release of the thin layer 1. These species are confined in this closed and sealed space 6, because the fracture has not propagated in the peripheral portion 2p of the donor substrate 2, which therefore remains firmly assembled to the recipient substrate 5.
- This closed and sealed space 6 is therefore also isolated from the surrounding atmosphere by the peripheral portion 2p of the substrate donor 2. This prevents external contaminants, for example oxygen, from entering this space 6 and passivating the freed surface of the thin layer 1, which would make it more difficult to smooth out.
- the light species introduced during the embrittlement step S2 which allow the fracture of the donor substrate 2 (typically hydrogen or helium) are extremely pure, they do not interact with the elements. atoms forming the surface of the thin layer released to passivate it and to limit the surface mobility of the atoms, which makes it an atmosphere particularly suitable for thermal smoothing.
- a preferred mode of implementation of a method in accordance with the present description provides for applying, during a finishing step S5, a heat treatment aiming to bring the assembly to be fractured to a temperature above the temperature of the heat treatment of the separation step S4, in order to smooth the freed surface of the thin layer 1.
- the heat treatment exposes the assembly to be fractured to a plateau temperature above the temperature, between 200 ° C and 500 ° C when the donor substrate is made of silicon, of the separation step S4.
- this heat treatment remains moderate, less than 1000 ° C, or 950 ° C, or even less than 900 ° C or 600 ° C. It can extend over a period of between a few seconds at the selected plateau temperature, and several hours at this plateau temperature.
- This heat treatment of the finishing step S5 leads to bringing the assembly to be fractured to the treatment temperature, including the light species confined in the closed space 6 delimited by the surfaces released from the thin layer 1 and from the donor substrate. 2.
- the finishing step S5 can be carried out in the same equipment as that used for the separation step S4, for example the same oven or the same oven. But unlike the solution of the state of the art disclosed in the introduction to this application, it is also possible to carry out the finishing step S5 in other equipment, separate from the equipment used to carry out the separation step. S4.
- the two substrates forming the assembly to be fractured are in fact still integral with one of the the other, and the risk of damaging the thin layer 1 during the handling of this assembly to store it or move it to other equipment is reduced. Moreover, the free surface of the thin layer 1 being entirely confined, it cannot be exposed to the ambient atmosphere during this change of equipment.
- finishing step S5 it therefore does not oxidize or become passive, and all of its smoothing potential is retained, even at low temperature, by carrying out the finishing step in an environment other than that used during the separation step. And as already mentioned, the equipment in which the finishing step S5 is carried out in this mode of implementation can be chosen very freely.
- a detachment step S6 is applied to the assembly to be fractured aimed at detaching the donor substrate 2 (or more precisely the residue of this donor substrate 2, after the thin layer 1 has been removed therefrom) of the recipient substrate 5 and thus finalize the transfer of the thin layer 1 onto the recipient substrate 5. It is noted that this detachment step S6 is quite distinct from the separation step S4. A very advantageous characteristic of the method of the present description is in fact to clearly distinguish the propagation of the fracture wave which is caused during the separation step S4 and which leads to the release of the thin layer 1, from this step of detachment S5 leading to completely disassemble the donor substrate from the recipient substrate. In a conventional fracture step of the state of the art, the propagation of the fracture wave propagates entirely in the plane of the donor substrate, during this single step detaching the donor substrate from the recipient substrate.
- the treatment implemented to obtain the detachment during step S6 can be varied: it can be a question of chemically etching, for example by wet process, the outline of the assembly to be fractured, in order to disassemble the two substrates at the same time. level of their assembly interface. For this, we can position the assembly to be fractured vertically to soak a portion of its contour in a KOH solution or of TMAH (when the donor substrate is made of silicon) or in a solution comprising HF when a silicon oxide layer is disposed at the interface between the donor substrate 2 and the recipient substrate 5. By rotating the together, this entire contour is successively processed in order to disassemble the two substrates from one another. Alternatively, and as shown diagrammatically in FIG.
- this treatment can comprise the application of a blade at the level of the assembly interface, and its introduction between the two substrates to cause the disassembly of the assembly. More generally, it may be a matter of applying any means or any force leading to the disassembly of the support substrate 5 and of the donor substrate 2 at the level of their surfaces in contact.
- this detachment step S6 can be perfectly mastered, unlike the fracture step of a process of the state of the art, so that the risks of damage to the layer can be minimized. thin 1.
- the finishing step is not carried out directly after the separation step S4, between this step S4 and the detachment step S6, but after the detachment step S6.
- the finishing step S5 of this embodiment can be a conventional finishing step, for example exposing the surface released from the thin layer 1, when the latter is made of silicon, to a reducing or neutral atmosphere at a temperature. between 950 or 1000 ° C and 1100 ° C. More generally, the exposed surface of the thin layer will be brought to a neutral or reducing atmosphere brought to a temperature above the temperature of the heat treatment of the separation step.
- the thin layer 1 transferred onto the support substrate 5 is available.
- thin layer 1 has an improved surface condition compared to a thin layer 1 obtained directly after fracture by a process of the state of the art. It has in particular a relatively low roughness, thanks to the smoothing effect of the finishing step S5. It also exhibits little or no non-uniformity linked to the interactions of the fracture wave with acoustic waves propagating in the recipient substrate 5 and in the donor substrate 2 when they are entirely detached from each other by the propagation of the fracture wave.
- the damage to the thin layer 1, the origin of which is the impacts between the two substrates or their relative sliding, one on the other is also limited.
- steps can be provided in addition to those which have been described. It may in particular involve applying additional finishing treatments to the thin layer, for example a sacrificial oxidation step, polishing to perfect the qualities of this layer or to adjust its thickness.
- additional finishing treatments for example a sacrificial oxidation step, polishing to perfect the qualities of this layer or to adjust its thickness.
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