US2701216A - Method of making surface-type and point-type rectifiers and crystalamplifier layers from elements - Google Patents
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- the relative impurity concentration throughout the semiconductor should be a minimum in the zone of increased resistance immediately adjacent the metallic electrode, in order to avoid short-circuits. Any increase in the number of impurities in this zone means great probability of short-circuits due to so-called by-passes.
- the disassociation level of the impurity atoms should be low (the impurity atoms should not diffuse readily), while the mobility of the electric carriers should be high. That only a few surface-type rectifications effects have been realized so far, derives from the fact that these two demands have not, or have hardly, been possible of fulfilment so far, for the known methods of making specified layer patterns are based exclusively on such processes where the space distribution of the impurities, is only obtained by modifications introduced by a secondary process by removing impurities at a suitable temperature, by chemical reaction (f. i. dissolving, lacquer-layers applied later on, etc.).
- the substances intended to produce the desired effects are placed at their respective locations in a first operation where no attention can be paid as to obtaining any specified space distribution of impurities, while that specified distribution, essential for proper performance, is brought about only subsequently in a second process governed by laws different from those of the rst one.
- a second process governed by laws different from those of the rst one.
- A, B, C, and D refer schematically to devices where the substances needed for assembling the rectifying layer are obtained in their purest form by available processes according to what has been described above. As indicated schematically, these substances are then fed through pipes La, Lb, Lc, and Ld to the device E where the layer pattern is formed. In Fig. l, these pipes La and Lb directly feed the device E with no prior intermixing of the substances being possible. Of course, one, two, or even all of the pipes could be joined in a common duct whenever intermixing of the substances is desired or permissible at such a relatively early stage of the production process.
- control mechanisms Ra, Rb, Rc, and Rd are shown at some arbitrary point along the ducts which allow any desired decrease or increase in the feeding rate of any of the ingredients while the semiconducting system is being built up. It is by no means essential that these controlling devices be inserted somewhere between the units A and E, B and E, etc., these controlling facilities may as well be incorporated straight in the units A, B, C, D or any additional units that might be present. Care will have to be taken, however, to prevent undesired reactions on the other devices B, C, D whenever at the junction of the pipes or individual pipe ducts the gas or Vapor rate of device A is increased.
- the elements boron, silicon, germanium, or tellurium may be used because of the high mobility of their electric carriers.
- the impurity concentration at the back or counterelectrode is chosen large enough to prevent virtually any barrier layer from forming there.
- silicon may be reduced with hydrogen from silicon, tetrachloride or with zinc, in order to obtain pure silicon.
- the reaction product deposits on a conducting foundation, (for example, carbon, or other high-melting material not alloying with the basic material) or on some insulating foundation (aluminum oxide, or similar substances).
- a conducting foundation for example, carbon, or other high-melting material not alloying with the basic material
- some insulating foundation aluminum oxide, or similar substances
- boron is used in very low concentrations only, one preferably uses a mixture of boron chloride and silicon tetrachloride in the second feeder current.
- Silicon may be provided with a small percentage of tin or germanium by adding SnCl4 or GeCl4 to the ow of SiCl4.
- the impurity material may consist for example of thermal decomposition out of a suitable compound or in adding it as an element to the outgoing ow.
- the essential feature is that the impurity concentration is open to any programmed control during the buildingup of the semi-conducting layer.
- the reducing agent will he so chosen that small amounts of it when dissolved, in the semiconductor will not result in any marked degree of conductivity, or that if such is the case -they will cause if possible the kind of conductivity that is wanted anyhow when adding the impurity.
- Hydrogen is a reducing agent of relatively very neutral character.
- O refers to an electrically-operated tubular oven with two separate windings in series-connection.
- zinc vapor is generated which ows in the opposite direction to the mixture of silicon tetrachloride and boron chloride, or silicon tetrachloride and germanium tetrachloride, the fractional composition of which may be varied any time.
- the reaction zone are again the bases on which the semiconducting material deposits.
- Fig. 4 shows only the part indicated by E in Fig. l.
- the inner tubing Ri closed at one end--when required it may also be open at either end-there is fed from one side simultaneously some halogen compound or halogen compounds of the basic material as well as of the impurity material at suitable rates which undergo control during the reaction process as desired, and they are brought to reaction with some material reacting with either halogen (i. e. with that of the basic material as well as with that of the impurity material) so they deposit on bases placed in the reaction zone at a point where reducing material is not, or almost entirely not, deposited.
- halogen i. e. with that of the basic material as well as with that of the impurity material
- pipe Rl may for instance be entered from the left by silicon tetrachloride and boron chloride while at the right aluminum is vaporized, so that from the right aluminum vapor or low-order aluminum halogens ows in a current opposing that of the aforenamed compounds.
- aluminum chloride is formed which has to flow left through the open end of the tube in a countercurrent to the entering substances.
- the carriers or bases are then placed in such a section of the reaction zone where no aluminum deposits as in this process it is boron that has to serve as the impurity admixture. If required, even tin or germanium may be deposited as impurity substances.
- Tube R1 is surrounded by some outer shell Ra to which the vacuum pump connects at the right.
- the entire assembly is accommodated in an oven (not shown).
- partition the tube up to the reaction zone by a horizontal wall to feed silicon halogen and boron halogen in the lower half While the upper half serves for the return of the formed aluminum chlorides.
- partition the tube up to the reaction zone by a horizontal wall to feed silicon halogen and boron halogen in the lower half While the upper half serves for the return of the formed aluminum chlorides.
- tube Rr in Fig. 4 which is conveniently made of quartz, is corroded by aluminum so it becomes useless before long. This even introduces changes in the reaction conditions which even may lead to a displacement of the reaction zone.
- the aluminum is conveniently inserted in a short tubular socket of sintered corundum-aluminum oxide--so the quartz tubing is protected.
- the process of the present invention permits making surface-type rectiers with entirely symmetrical electrical characteristics (so-called limiters), if the local impurity concentration is held low not at the outside (i. e. the interface to an adjacent electrode) but in the center-layer of the semi-conductor.
- Fig. 5 shows the overall structural pattern of such a limiter where the impurity concentration is minimized in the center-layer over a layer thickness d.
- the thickness of the marginal zone bordering at the low-concentration zone is some lO-7 centimeters, or a few atoms across.
- Fig. 6 The effect of the thickness d of the low-concentration zone on the properties of the limiter, i. e. on the diffusion voltage level Vd (cutoff-voltage) is shown in Fig. 6.
- the current J has been plotted versus the voltage, and this for two different values of a'. Herewith, 1(2) exceeds d0), so even Va@ exceeds Vdl).
- Electron-conducting germanium crystals which at the surface are modified for hole-conduction (p-type) have been described.
- This structure gives rise to a barrier layer at the interface of the n-type and p-type conducting germanium layers so the current of the emitter electrode is forced radially into the surface. It is only then that the barrier layer under the collector is so affected that the known power-amplifying control of same takes place.
- a transistor from its basic elements so that on the foundation there is rst applied the layer of the basic material (such as germanium), along with a donor causing electron conduction, with the change in the type of conduction subsequently brought about in that the donor, at a specified stage of the layer-assembly, is replaced by an acceptor, which causes hole-conduction in the basic material when it is deposited along with the latter.
- the layer of the basic material such as germanium
- acceptor which causes hole-conduction in the basic material when it is deposited along with the latter.
- One also may begin by making a p-type conducting foundation to coat it subsequently with a thin n-type conducting lm.
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