WO1998025299A1 - Procede de fabrication d'une tranche epitaxiee semi-conductrice de silicium et d'un dispositif semi-conducteur - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a manufacturing method for imparting gettering capability to silicon epitaxial wafers used as substrates for various semiconductor devices, and performing a predetermined low-temperature heat treatment on the pulled silicon single crystal ingot. Or by subjecting the wafer to a predetermined low-temperature heat treatment before forming the epitaxial film,
- BMD Bit Micro Defect
- the present invention relates to a semiconductor silicon epitaxial wafer which can be exhibited and improve the device yield, and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device.
- silicon single crystals grown by the Czochralski method or the magnetic Czochralski method are dotted with many oxygen precipitation nuclei that can be a gettering ability of contamination.
- These oxygen precipitate nuclei are introduced during the process of growing silicon single crystals. The more oxygen content, the more the oxygen precipitate nuclei are scattered.
- IG such as DZ (Denuded Zone) -IG has been widely used.
- next-generation devices 64 MB and 256 MB DRAM generations
- the possibility of serious use of epitaxy wafers is extremely high due to the problem of Grown-in defects.
- the epitaxy is the most promising.
- DZ-IG processing has been widely used so far, and this method is to heat the wafers at a high temperature of about 1100 ° C to 1200 ° C. It diffuses oxygen near the wafer surface outward to reduce interstitial oxygen, which is the core of micro defects, and forms a defect-free DZ (Denuded Zone) layer in the device active region. After that, a low-temperature heat treatment at 600 ° C to 900 ° C is performed. Is being done. However, in DZ-IG processing, a Grown-in defect exists in the device active area.
- Figure 3 shows that the initial oxygen concentration of a p (100) B-doped substrate with an outer diameter of 8 inches was
- FIG. 4 shows the results of a comparison of the oxygen precipitation behavior between an epitaxial wafer and a polished wafer under a high-temperature process flow.
- Figure 4 shows a p (100) B-doped substrate with an outer diameter of 8 inches, two types of substrate resistivity, 10 ⁇ 20 ⁇ ( ⁇ +) and 10 ⁇ ( ⁇ -), and an initial oxygen concentration of ll ⁇
- a selective etch (Wright Etch 5 minutes) was performed on the wafer, and the BMD density was measured with an optical microscope.
- oxygen precipitates grow from oxygen precipitate nuclei due to the high-temperature heat treatment in the process, and a sufficient IG effect is exhibited.
- a method of performing heat treatment before epitaxial growth to obtain a sufficient IG effect has already been studied.H. Tsuya et al .: APPI.Phys.Lett. 36 (1980) 658.
- a heat treatment condition of 16 to 64 hours in an oxygen atmosphere at a temperature of from 1 to 1150 ° C has been studied, and it has been shown that a heat treatment of 820 ° C for 16 hours is effective for gettering. ing.
- the evaluation of the BMD was performed after heat treatment at 1140 ° C for 2 hours assuming a high temperature process, and the effect of the low temperature process was not clear, and the heat treatment time was extremely long at 16 hours or more.
- Japanese Patent Publication No. 4-56800 reports a two-step heat treatment method in which a low-temperature heat treatment (500 to 900 ° C) and a high-temperature heat treatment (1000 to 1100 ° C) are added before epitaxial growth.
- a low-temperature heat treatment 500 to 900 ° C
- a high-temperature heat treatment 1000 to 1100 ° C
- Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 8-97220 discloses that during the heating process of the epitaxial growth process, the heating rate is set to 15 ° C / min or less in the temperature range of 800 ° C to 1000 ° C, or A method of holding at a temperature for 5 to 100 minutes has been proposed. This method has a problem in the current situation where the throughput of the epitaxy is clearly reduced and the stable production of epitaxy wafers is required at low cost.
- the present invention provides a device manufacturing process using a low-temperature process flow of 1050 ° C or lower, or a device manufacturing process using a high-temperature process flow of 1050 ° C or higher.
- the purpose of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor silicon epitaxial wafer that can exhibit a sufficient gettering effect (IG) and improve the device yield, and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device.
- the present invention also simplifies the process as much as possible in order to reduce the cost, and does not perform any processing that can be expected to have EG effect after cutting out the wafers, but only the processing for pulling up by the CZ method.
- the purpose of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor silicon epitaxial wafer that can exhibit a sufficient gettering effect (IG) even in a device manufacturing process and improve device yield, and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device.
- the present inventors have developed a semiconductor silicon epitaxial wafer that can exhibit a sufficient gettering effect (IG) even in a device manufacturing process at a low temperature of 1050 ° C or lower or a device manufacturing process using a high-temperature process flow of 1050 ° C or higher.
- IG gettering effect
- a low-temperature heat treatment at 650 ° C to 900 ° C is performed before the epitaxial film formation, even if the epitaxial wafer has a specific resistance of lOmQ.cm or more, it can be used in either low-temperature or high-temperature device processes at 1050 ° C or below.
- the inventors have found that a sufficient gettering (IG) effect can be obtained, and have completed the present invention.
- an epitaxy film is formed to form a BMD sufficient for gettering in a heat treatment process in a low-temperature device process. It has been found that a semiconductor silicon epitaxial wafer having sufficient IG capability can be obtained.
- the inventors similarly performed a heat treatment at a temperature of 700 ° C. to 900 ° C., preferably for 3 hours or less, in the above-mentioned atmosphere before forming an epitaxial film on the wafer. It has been found that by forming a epitaxial film, a BMD sufficient for gettering is formed in a heat treatment process in a high-temperature device process, a semiconductor silicon epitaxial wafer having a sufficient IG effect is obtained, and device yield is improved.
- a heat treatment at a temperature of 700 ° C. to 900 ° C., preferably for 3 hours or less
- the inventors of the present invention provide a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device in which a semiconductor silicon epitaxial wafer is subjected to a process flow according to a device configuration, wherein a specific resistance cut out and molded into the wafer is ⁇ ⁇ ' ⁇ or more.
- ⁇ -type (doped) CZ-Si wafer is heat-treated at a temperature of 650 ° C or more and 900 ° C or less, preferably for 3 hours or more, or at a temperature of 700 ° C or more and 900 ° C or less.
- heat treatment is performed for 3 hours or less, and thereafter, the above-mentioned process flow at a low temperature of 1050 ° C or less or the above-mentioned process port at a high temperature of 1050 ° C or more is applied to a semiconductor silicon epitaxial wafer formed by epitaxy.
- the necessary and sufficient BMD for gettering is formed.
- the inventors have developed a semiconductor silicon epitaxial wafer that can exhibit a sufficient gettering effect (IG) even in a device manufacturing process at a low temperature of 1050 ° C or lower or a device manufacturing process using a high-temperature process flow of 1050 ° C or higher.
- IG gettering effect
- the present invention provides a low-temperature heat treatment for a silicon single crystal ingot pulled up by the CZ method while controlling the B concentration to obtain a p-type (B-doped) CZ-Si wafer with a specific resistance of lOmQ'cm or more.
- the gettering ability that does not disappear even when subjected to the thermal history during the formation of the epitaxial film is provided.BMD sufficient for gettering is formed in the heat treatment process in the device process, and various As a result, a semiconductor silicon epitaxial wafer having sufficient IG performance against contamination can be obtained, and it is not necessary to perform any processing that can be expected to have an EG effect after cutting and molding the wafer, thereby simplifying the process.
- the present invention provides a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, in which a semiconductor silicon epitaxial wafer is subjected to a process flow according to the device configuration, to obtain a p-type (B-doped) CZ-Si wafer having a specific resistance of lOmQ.cm or more. 650 ° C or more and 900 ° C or less to the silicon single crystal ingot pulled up by CZ method while controlling the B concentration Heat treatment at the following temperature for 3 hours or more, or heat treatment at a temperature of 700 ° C or more and 900 ° C or less, preferably for 3 hours or less, and then cut and formed into a silicon wafer, and then the EG effect is improved.
- one or both sides of the wafer are mirror-polished, and a predetermined surface is epitaxially deposited by vapor phase epitaxy.
- a predetermined surface is epitaxially deposited by vapor phase epitaxy.
- FIG. 1 is a graph showing a thermal simulation pattern of a low-temperature process used in an experiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a graph showing a thermal simulation pattern of a high-temperature process which is a semiconductor device process used in this experiment.
- Figure 3 shows the low-temperature process thermal simulation of Figure 1 on various epitaxial wafers with different initial oxygen concentrations and specific resistances on an 8-inch substrate, and then performs selective etching on the wafers and measures the BMD density with an optical microscope.
- 7 is a graph showing initial results of initial oxygen concentration and BMD density.
- Figure 4 shows an 8-inch p (100) B-doped CZ-Si substrate with a specific resistance of the substrate.
- a selective etch (Wright Etch 5 minutes) is performed on the wafer, and the BMD density is measured optically. It is a graph of the initial oxygen concentration and BMD density which show the result measured with the microscope. Figure 5 shows that various thermal treatments were applied to various wafers with different initial oxygen concentrations on a 6-inch substrate to produce epitaxy wafers, and then the low-temperature process thermal simulation in Figure 1 was performed.
- Fig. 7 is a graph of initial oxygen concentration and BMD density showing the results of selective etching performed on A-8 and measurement of BMD density with an optical microscope.
- Figure 6 is a ⁇ E one tooth of 8 Inchi of p (100) B de one flop de (resistivity 10Q.Cm) initial oxygen concentration in the CZ-Si substrate 15X 10l 7 atoms / cm 3 ( old ASTM)
- B de one flop de resistivity 10Q.Cm initial oxygen concentration in the CZ-Si substrate 15X 10l 7 atoms / cm 3
- FIG. Heat treatment and selective etching Wright Etch 5 min
- BMD density measured with an optical microscope. This is a rough graph of the pre-heat treatment time and BMD density under various conditions.
- Figure 7 shows the results of the low-temperature process thermal simulation in the example.
- 5 is a graph showing the results of measuring the lifetime generated by the MOS-Ct method.
- Figure 8 shows an 8-inch p (100) B doped (specific resistance 10 Q.cm) CZ-Si substrate with wafers with different initial oxygen concentrations, heat treated at 800 ° C for 2 hours. After that, epitaxy wafers with epitaxy thickness of 3 ⁇ were grown, and these epitaxy wafers were subjected to the thermal simulation of the high-temperature process flow shown in Fig. 2 and selected etching was performed on the wafers (Wright Etch for 5 minutes) is a graph of the initial oxygen concentration and the BMD density, showing the results of measuring the BMD density with an optical microscope.
- the present invention is based on the fact that the present inventors have performed various low-temperature heat treatments before forming an epitaxial film on a p-type CZ-Si wafer, and then performed an epitaxy film after forming an epitaxial film on the p-type CZ-Si wafer.
- the temperature was 650 ° C to 900 ° C, preferably for 3 hours or more.
- IG gettering
- the present invention is characterized in that a single-stage low-temperature wafer heat treatment is performed before the epitaxial growth process, so that a large amount of wafer processing can be performed at low cost, and the low-temperature or high-temperature process can be performed.
- This is a novel invention that can sufficiently cope with any of the above-mentioned conventional processing methods and differs in the oxygen concentration of the substrate, the specific resistance, the heat treatment temperature, the time, and the atmosphere.
- the inventors performed various low-temperature heat treatments on the silicon single crystal ingot pulled up while controlling the B concentration by the CZ method, and then cut out and formed a mirror, polished the mirror surface, and formed an epitaxy film.
- the p-type CZ-Si wafer was subjected to a low-temperature process thermal simulation of the pattern shown in Fig. 1, and the BMD generation behavior was investigated.As a result, the temperature was raised at 650 ° C to 900 ° C, preferably for 3 hours or more.
- a low temperature heat treatment is applied to the ingot, the silicon wafer is cut out and molded, and then a treatment that can expect the EG effect is not performed.Epiaxial wafers with specific resistance of ⁇ 'cm or more can be used in low temperature device processes. In addition, a sufficient gettering (IG) effect was obtained, and the BMD generation behavior was investigated after thermal simulation of the high-temperature process flow of the pattern shown in Fig. 2 ( 6), and if low temperature heat treatment is applied to the ingot after lifting under conditions of 700 ° C to 900 ° C, preferably for 3 hours or less, similarly for epitaxy wafers with specific resistance of lOmQ.cm or more.
- IG gettering
- the specific resistance of the substrate is set to 10 ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ or more when lOmQ.cm or less, as described above, because the effect of high-concentration B promotes abnormal precipitation of oxygen, which is an epitaxy. This is because there is no influence of the thermal history at the time of deposition, and a BMD sufficient for gettering is formed at the very beginning of the low-temperature process without heat treatment before the epitaxial film formation.For substrates with lOmQ.cm or more, Oxygen precipitation is considerably suppressed by the thermal history at the time of the epitaxial film formation, so that the heat treatment before the epitaxial film formation according to the present invention is indispensable to obtain a sufficient BMD.
- the oxygen concentration of the substrate is preferably 12 ⁇ 10 17 atoms / cm 3 or more.
- the heat treatment temperature applied to the wafer for the low-temperature process is lower than 650 ° C
- a long-time heat treatment is required to grow the oxygen precipitation nuclei to a size that does not shrink due to the high-temperature heat history at the time of epitaxy film formation. If the temperature exceeds 900 ° C, the temperature is too high and the growth of oxygen precipitation nuclei of sufficient density does not occur, and the effect cannot be obtained. I do.
- the heat treatment time applied to the wafer for low-temperature process is preferably 3 hours or more under the above temperature conditions in order to obtain a BMD of 5 ⁇ 10 4 m2 or more with sufficient density for gettering even in the low-temperature process.
- the heat treatment temperature applied to the wafer for the high-temperature process is less than 700 ° C.
- a long-time heat treatment is required to grow the oxygen precipitation nuclei to a size that does not shrink due to the high-temperature heat history at the time of the epitaxial film formation.
- 900 ° C If the temperature exceeds 300 ° C., the temperature is too high and the growth of oxygen precipitation nuclei with sufficient density does not occur, and the effect cannot be obtained.
- Heat treatment time for wafers for high temperature process is 3 hours or less even at 700 ° C heat treatment.
- Because BMD > 5 ⁇ 10 4 pieces / cm 2 ) with sufficient density for gettering can be obtained, it is 3 hours or less. I do.
- the density needs to be 5 ⁇ 10 5 / cm 2 or less, more preferably 1 ⁇ 10 5 / cm 2 or less.
- the substrate of the oxygen concentration 15X 101 7 atoms m 3 (old ASTM), the Ueha subjected to 2 hours and 3 hours E peak before low-temperature heat treatment at 800 ° C, heat After simulation, a BMD force of 5 ⁇ 105 / cm2 or more was formed, and slip dislocation was also observed in the center of the wafer.
- the BMD density can be optimized by adjusting the oxygen concentration of the substrate, and as shown in Fig. 8, the optimal BMD density can be obtained by lowering the oxygen concentration of the substrate, and It was confirmed that the occurrence of lip dislocation could be prevented.
- a preferred substrate oxygen concentration is 10-15 X 1017 atoms / cm3 (old ASTM).
- the initial nitrogen concentration was 15 ⁇ 10 17 atoms / cm 3 and the heat treatment before epitaxy film formation was performed at 800 ° C. for 3 hours in a nitrogen atmosphere.
- lX l01 2 atoms / cm 2 The simulation was performed, and after the simulation, the generation life time was measured using MOS-Ct. Fig. 7 shows the results.
- the generation lifetime is good with no difference from the non-contaminated wafer, and the wafer that has been heat-treated before the appropriate epitaxy film formation has a sufficient gettering (IG) effect in the low-temperature process.
- IG gettering
- 13-16X CZ-Si wafers in the range of 10 atoms / cm3 (old ASTM) were prepared, and these wafers were subjected to a heat treatment at 800 ° C for 2 hours in a nitrogen atmosphere before the epitaxy film formation process.
- a wafer set the wafer in a single-wafer CVD furnace at 850 ° C, raise the temperature to 1150 ° C at 150 ° C / min, etch with HC1, and etch with SiHCl 3 gas at 1050 ° C.
- An epitaxy film having an epitaxy specific resistance of lOQ'cm and an epitaxy thickness of 3 ⁇ was formed by using the method described above to produce an epitaxy wafer.
- the present invention provides a gettering capability for p-type (B-doped) CZ-Si wafers with a resistivity of lOmQ'cm or more, for which a sufficient gettering effect (IG) cannot be expected in a low-temperature device process or a high-temperature device process.
- An appropriate heat treatment is performed by subjecting the ingot pulled up by the CZ method to a predetermined low-temperature heat treatment, or by selecting a heat treatment time according to the process temperature in the device manufacturing process before forming an epitaxial film.
- sufficient BMD can be generated even in a low-temperature device process or a high-temperature device process, and sufficient gettering can be performed even when heavy metal contamination occurs in the process.
- EGCExtrinsic Gettering requires a complicated machining process.
- the present invention can provide a sufficient getter effect (IG effect) to an epitaxy wafer by a simple process even when both sides are mirror-polished.
- the integrity of the device active layer near the surface is ensured by epitaxy, so that high-temperature heat treatment is not required. Since low-temperature heat treatment at the stage is sufficient, heat treatment can be performed at low cost.
- the treatment performed in an epitaxy furnace during the above-mentioned epitaxy process Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 8-97220
- it is difficult to process a large amount but the method according to the present invention is performed in a normal heat treatment furnace, so that There is an advantage that the wafer processing can be performed, and the throughput of the epitaxial growth process itself is not affected at all.
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