KR20140092704A - Susceptor and epitaxial reactor inclusing the same - Google Patents
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a susceptor for improving the resistivity uniformity of a wafer, comprising: a susceptor for supporting a wafer during an epitaxial deposition process, the susceptor being provided on an upper surface of the susceptor, A mounting part; A base portion provided at a lower portion of the mounting portion and supporting the mounting portion; And a heat capacity increasing part provided so as to be concentric with the susceptor on the back surface of the susceptor and protruding downward from the back surface of the susceptor.
Description
The present invention relates to a susceptor and an epitaxial reactor including the same, and more particularly, to a susceptor for improving resistivity uniformity of a wafer and an epitaxial reactor including the susceptor.
Generally, the process of preparing a wafer for a device process comprises manufacturing a silicon ingot and sawing the produced silicon ingot with individual silicon wafers. And then subjected to several processing steps including lapping, grinding, etching and polishing of the so-formed silicon wafers followed by a front face or front and back faces, Thereby forming a wafer having this mirror gloss. And a silicon thin film is grown on the wafer surface by an epitaxial deposition process to prepare a final wafer for device processing.
In general, the epitaxial deposition process is divided into two stages.
In the first prebake step, a silicon wafer is loaded into the deposition chamber and dropped onto the susceptor. Then, the surface of the silicon wafer is pre-baked at a predetermined temperature (for example, 1000 to 1150 ° C) in a state where a cleaning gas such as hydrogen or a mixed gas of hydrogen and hydrogen chloride is applied to the surface of the silicon wafer to clean the surface of the silicon wafer .
In the epitaxial growth process as the second step, a silicon vapor source such as silane or trichlorosilane is applied to the surface of the silicon wafer and the wafer is heated at a predetermined temperature (for example, 800 ° C.) A silicon layer is grown on the surface.
During such high temperature pre-bake and epitaxial growth processes, dopant atoms such as boron or phosphorus are emitted from the back (e.g., backside) of the silicon wafer. In general, the dopant atoms emitted from the back surface of a silicon wafer are emitted to the front surface (e.g., front surface) of the silicon wafer through a gap between a silicon wafer edge and a susceptor. And the diffused dopant atoms are incorporated into the deposition layer growing on the entire surface of the silicon wafer to contaminate the deposition layer and lower the resistivity or resistivity near the edge of the silicon wafer. This is called auto-doping.
Figure 1 is a schematic plan view of an epitaxial reactor according to one embodiment of the present invention. In particular, the epitaxial reactor shown in FIG. 1 is a reactor that performs an epitaxial growth process on a wafer having a diameter of 300 mm or more. 2 is a schematic side cross-sectional view of a susceptor according to the prior art.
As shown in FIG. 1, the epitaxial reactor includes a susceptor on which a wafer is mounted, a central gas supply unit disposed on a side surface of the susceptor and supplying a reaction gas to a central portion of the wafer, A peripheral gas supply unit disposed on both sides of the central gas supply unit for supplying a reaction gas to an edge portion of the wafer, a plurality of lamps arranged radially on the central gas supply unit and the peripheral gas supply unit, And a heating lamp unit.
And, as shown in Fig. 2, the susceptor according to the prior art has a mounting portion on which the wafer is mounted and a back surface made in a plane.
Fig. 3 shows the resistivity distribution of a wafer produced by an epitaxial reactor including a susceptor according to the prior art shown in Fig. 2. Fig. Specifically, the resistivity distribution graph of FIG. 3 measures the resistivity with temperature at a plurality of points located on a horizontal line (that is, a line across the diameter of the wafer) passing through the center of the wafer.
As shown in Fig. 3, the wafers manufactured by the epitaxial reactor and the susceptor according to the prior art exhibit a resistivity higher than the average resistivity of the entire wafer near the half of the radius of the wafer, There is a problem that the resistivity is lower than the average resistivity of the entire wafer and the resistivity at the edge portion of the wafer located on both upper and lower sides of the central portion of the wafer is lower than the average resistivity of the entire wafer.
The causes of such unevenness of resistivity are as follows.
The vicinity of a half of the radius of the wafer is a section in which the flow of the reaction gas supplied from the central gas supply unit and the flow of the reaction gas supplied from the peripheral gas supply unit are overlapped and the thin film thickness of the wafer, So that the resistivity of the wafer is higher than the resistivity of the wafer. Further, the central portion of the wafer is heated to a higher temperature than other regions of the wafer during epitaxial growth due to the lamps arranged to radiate heat to the center portion of the susceptor, the outer circumferential surface of the susceptor being radially arranged, The average thickness of the wafer is increased, and as a result, the resistivity of the wafer is lower than the resistivity of the wafer. In addition, the edge portion of the wafer is also lower in resistivity than the average resistivity of the entire wafer due to the automatic doping phenomenon.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a susceptor and an epitaxial reactor that solve the problems in the prior art.
Specifically, it is an object of the present invention to provide a susceptor and an epitaxial reactor which improve overall resistivity uniformity of a wafer.
According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a susceptor for supporting a wafer during an epitaxial deposition process, the susceptor comprising: a mount provided on an upper surface of the susceptor and on which the wafer is mounted; A base portion provided at a lower portion of the mounting portion and supporting the mounting portion; And a heat capacity increasing part provided on the back surface of the susceptor so as to be concentric with the susceptor and protruding downward from the back surface of the susceptor.
Preferably, the heat capacity increasing portion includes a flat portion extending in a vertical downward direction on a rear surface of the susceptor
Preferably, the heat capacity increasing portion includes: a flat portion extending in a vertical downward direction on a rear surface of the susceptor; a first continuous section extending from an outer edge of the flat portion to a rear surface of the susceptor; And a second continuous section extending from the inner edge of the flat portion to the rear surface of the susceptor.
Preferably, the first continuous section is constituted by an outer inclined section extending obliquely in an outer radial direction of the planar section from an outer edge of the planar section to a rear surface of the susceptor, And an inner inclined portion extending from the inner rim portion to the rear surface of the susceptor so as to be inclined in the inner radial direction of the flat surface portion.
Preferably, the inclination angle of the outer inclined portion and the inclination angle of the inner inclined portion are 45 [deg.].
Preferably, the thickness of the heat capacity increasing portion is 1/3 of the thickness of the base portion.
Preferably, the heat capacity increasing portion is formed to have a predetermined width so that the center circle of the flat portion on the back surface of the susceptor is located at a quarter of the radius of the back surface of the susceptor.
Preferably, the predetermined width of the heat capacity increasing portion is less than 1/4 of the radius of the back surface of the susceptor.
Preferably, the heat capacity increasing portion is formed of the same material as the susceptor.
Preferably, the heat capacity increasing portion is formed on the back surface of the susceptor such that, when the wafer is mounted on the mounting portion, the center of the heat capacity increasing portion is formed on the concentric circle of the back surface corresponding to a half of the radius of the wafer And a circle is formed.
According to another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a plasma processing apparatus comprising: a susceptor in which a wafer is mounted; A center gas supply unit disposed on a side surface of the susceptor for supplying a reaction gas to a central portion of the wafer, a peripheral gas supply unit disposed on both sides of the center gas supply unit at a side of the susceptor, A gas supply section including a supply section; And a heating lamp unit including a plurality of lamps arranged radially along an outer circumferential surface of the susceptor, wherein the susceptor comprises: a mount for mounting the wafer; A base portion provided at a lower portion of the mounting portion and having a predetermined thickness to support the mounting portion; And a heat capacity increasing portion provided concentrically with the susceptor at a rear surface of the susceptor and protruding downward from a rear surface of the susceptor.
According to the above-mentioned problem solving means, the present invention can reduce the resistivity around the half point of the wafer by increasing the heat capacity of the susceptor, and as a result, the resistivity uniformity of the wafer as a whole can be improved.
Further, the present invention can improve the resistivity uniformity of the wafer in the epitaxial growth process of the wafer in the epitaxial reactor in which the heat lamp portion is radially arranged on the outer peripheral surface of the susceptor by providing the annular heat capacity increase portion in the susceptor .
Further, the present invention can improve the resistivity uniformity of the wafer by minimizing the structure of the existing susceptor, thereby improving the uniformity of the resistivity of the wafer while minimizing the equipment replacement cost of the susceptor and / have.
In addition, the present invention can minimize the thermal conduction discontinuity section and the heat capacity discontinuity section due to the addition of the heat capacity increase section in the susceptor by providing the inclined section tapered in the heat capacity increase section, and as a result, the resistivity uniformity of the wafer can be further improved Can
Figure 1 is a schematic plan view of an epitaxial reactor according to one embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a schematic side cross-sectional view of a susceptor according to the prior art.
Figure 3 shows the resistivity distribution of a wafer produced by a susceptor and an epitaxial reactor according to the prior art.
4 is a schematic rear perspective view of a susceptor in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a schematic side cross-sectional view of a susceptor in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a schematic rear view of a susceptor in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
7 is a schematic rear perspective view of a susceptor according to another embodiment of the present invention.
8 is a schematic side cross-sectional view of a susceptor according to another embodiment of the present invention.
9 is a schematic rear view of a susceptor according to another embodiment of the present invention.
Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art can easily carry out the present invention. It should be noted that the drawings denoted by the same reference numerals in the drawings denote the same reference numerals whenever possible, in other drawings. In the following description of the present invention, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present invention rather unclear. And certain features shown in the drawings are to be enlarged or reduced or simplified for ease of explanation, and the drawings and their components are not necessarily drawn to scale. However, those skilled in the art will readily understand these details.
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A mounting portion provided on an upper surface of the susceptor and on which the wafer is mounted;
A base portion provided at a lower portion of the mounting portion and supporting the mounting portion;
And a heat capacity increasing portion provided concentrically with the susceptor at a rear surface of the susceptor and protruding downward from a rear surface of the susceptor.
Wherein the heat capacity increasing portion includes a flat portion extending in a vertical downward direction on a rear surface of the susceptor.
The heat-
A planar portion extending in a vertical downward direction on a rear surface of the susceptor,
A first continuous section extending from an outer edge of the flat portion to a rear surface of the susceptor,
And a second continuous section extending from an inner edge of the flat portion to a rear surface of the susceptor.
Wherein the first continuous section is composed of an outer inclined portion extending from an outer edge portion of the planar portion to a rear surface of the susceptor so as to incline in an outer radial direction of the planar portion,
And the second continuous section is composed of an inner inclined part extending from the inner edge of the flat part to the rear surface of the susceptor so as to be inclined in the inner radial direction of the flat part.
Wherein the inclination angle of the outer inclined portion and the inclination angle of the inner inclined portion are 45 [deg.].
Wherein the thickness of the heat capacity increasing portion is 1/3 of the thickness of the base portion.
Wherein the heat capacity increasing portion is formed to have a predetermined width so that the center circle of the flat portion on the back surface of the susceptor is located at a quarter of the radius of the back surface of the susceptor.
Wherein the predetermined width of the heat capacity increasing portion is less than 1/4 of the radius of the back surface of the susceptor.
Wherein the heat capacity increasing portion is made of the same material as the susceptor.
The heat capacity increasing portion is formed on the back surface of the susceptor so that the center circle of the heat capacity increasing portion is located on a concentric circle of the back surface corresponding to a half of the radius of the wafer when the wafer is placed on the mounting portion ≪ / RTI >
A center gas supply unit disposed on a side surface of the susceptor for supplying a reaction gas to a central portion of the wafer, a peripheral gas supply unit disposed on both sides of the center gas supply unit at a side of the susceptor, A gas supply section including a supply section; And
And a plurality of lamps arranged radially along an outer circumferential surface of the susceptor,
Wherein the susceptor comprises:
A mounting part on which the wafer is mounted;
A base portion provided at a lower portion of the mounting portion and having a predetermined thickness to support the mounting portion;
And a heat capacity increasing portion provided concentrically with the susceptor at a rear surface of the susceptor and protruding downward from a rear surface of the susceptor.
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