WO2005071144A1 - シリコン単結晶中の酸素析出挙動予測方法、シリコン単結晶の製造パラメータ決定方法、シリコン単結晶中の酸素析出挙動予測用プログラムを記憶する記憶媒体 - Google Patents
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- Storage medium for storing a method for predicting oxygen precipitation behavior in silicon single crystal, a method for determining production parameters of silicon single crystal, and a program for predicting oxygen precipitation behavior in silicon single crystal
- the present invention relates to a method for predicting the behavior of oxygen precipitates in a silicon single crystal for predicting the behavior of oxygen precipitates generated in a silicon single crystal in response to a heat treatment, and determining a manufacturing parameter of the silicon single crystal using the method.
- the present invention relates to a method and a storage medium for storing a program for predicting oxygen precipitation behavior in a silicon single crystal.
- a raw material that is, a solid silicon raw material is charged into a quartz crucible, and a raw material melt is generated by heating.
- oxygen existing on the surface layer of the inner wall of the crucible and on the surface of the material is mixed into the raw material melt.
- 10 X 10 17 The silicon is produced single crystal pulling method - m 3 oxygen (old ASTM Display) extent is taken N 20 X 10 17 atoms.
- the incorporated oxygen is supersaturated in the heat treatment process performed in the device manufacturing process, and precipitates in accordance with the heat treatment.
- the oxygen precipitate thus formed is a small defect, but is effective as a gettering site for impurities. Gettering using oxygen precipitates is particularly called intrinsic gettering (hereinafter referred to as "IG") and is widely adopted as a method for gettering harmful heavy metals.
- IG intrinsic gettering
- the IG ability for heavy metals is related to the density and size of oxygen precipitates, that is, the density of oxygen precipitates and the amount of oxygen precipitates.
- Patent Literature 1 discloses Fe
- Patent Literatures 2 and 3 disclose Ni and Cu.
- the oxygen concentration and the silicon concentration of the silicon single crystal are adjusted so that an appropriate IG capability can be obtained by the density and the amount of oxygen precipitate generated in the silicon single crystal in accordance with the heat treatment performed on the wafer in the device manufacturing process. The process was chosen.
- the density of oxygen precipitates is determined by a selective etching method.
- the amount of precipitated oxygen can be determined by taking the difference in the amount of infrared absorption of dissolved oxygen before and after the heat treatment.
- recent elements Manufacturing processes have shifted from conventional high-temperature processes to low-temperature processes, and it has become difficult to evaluate the density of oxygen precipitates and the amount of oxygen precipitates using conventional methods.
- Patent Document 4 discloses a method of calculating the density of oxygen precipitates and the amount of oxygen precipitates by calculation. This technique is based on three parameters: initial oxygen concentration in silicon single crystal, dopant concentration or resistivity in silicon single crystal, and heat treatment conditions applied to silicon single crystal. This is a method for determining the density and amount of oxygen precipitates generated in a silicon single crystal. A similar method is disclosed in Patent Documents 2 and 3 mentioned above. According to these methods, it is possible to evaluate the density of oxygen precipitates and the amount of oxygen precipitates in a low-temperature process.
- the precipitation of oxygen strongly depends on the concentration of the thermal donor generated in accordance with the thermal history between 400 ° C and 550 ° C that the silicon single crystal receives during crystal growth.
- Thermal donors are oxygen clusters composed of several tens of tens of oxygen atoms, and are electrically measured as donors. Thermal donors occur at temperatures between 400 ° C and 550 ° C, and have a rapid rate of formation, especially at temperatures between 450 ° C and 500 ° C. The time (thermal history) of staying at a temperature between 450 ° C and 500 ° C is reflected in the thermal donor concentration.
- Patent Document 1 JP 2003-257983 A
- Patent Document 2 JP-A-2000-68280
- Patent Document 3 Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2003-318181
- Patent Document 4 JP-A-11-147789
- Patent Document 5 JP-A-2-263792
- Patent Document 6 JP-A-4-130732
- Patent Document 7 Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H4-298042
- Patent Document 8 Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 4-175300
- Patent Document 9 JP-A-5-102167
- the present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and reflects the thermal donor concentration, which is the most important factor for oxygen precipitation, in the calculation method, thereby improving the effect of thermal donors on oxygen precipitation.
- the goal is to improve the reliability of prediction of oxygen precipitates.
- the first invention is In the method for predicting the behavior of oxygen precipitates in a silicon single crystal, which predicts the behavior of oxygen precipitates generated in a silicon single crystal in response to heat treatment,
- the initial oxygen concentration in the silicon single crystal the concentration of the thermal donor generated according to the thermal history between 400 ° C and 550 ° C that the silicon single crystal receives during crystal growth, and the heat treatment applied to the silicon single crystal
- the method is characterized in that an operation is performed using the conditions and parameters as parameters, and the density and the amount of oxygen precipitates generated in the silicon single crystal when the silicon single crystal is heat-treated are obtained.
- the second invention is a first invention
- the calculation is performed using the initial oxygen concentration in the silicon single crystal and the concentration of the thermal donor generated according to the thermal history between 400 ° C and 550 ° C received by the silicon single crystal during crystal growth as parameters. Obtain the nucleation rate of oxygen precipitates generated in the silicon single crystal during the heat treatment process when the silicon single crystal is heat-treated, and use the obtained nucleation rate to determine the density and amount of oxygen precipitates.
- the third invention is
- the method for predicting the oxygen precipitation behavior in a silicon single crystal according to the first or second invention is used so that the density and amount of oxygen precipitates in the silicon single crystal are set to desired values.
- the thermal history of the silicon single crystal ingot during the crystal growth between 400 ° C and 550 ° C, and the heat treatment conditions applied to the silicon single crystal is determined.
- the fourth invention is a
- a storage medium storing a program for predicting the behavior of oxygen precipitates generated in a silicon single crystal in response to heat treatment by a computer
- the fifth invention provides:
- a storage medium storing a program for predicting the behavior of oxygen precipitates generated in a silicon single crystal in response to heat treatment by a computer
- the nucleation rate of oxygen precipitates generated in the silicon single crystal during the heat treatment is determined, and the density and amount of oxygen precipitates are determined using the determined nucleation rate.
- Kt Nucleation rate (cm- 3 s-, Ding: temperature, a (T): coefficient determined by the temperature, C: oxygen concentration (X 10 17 cm- 3), TD: Thermal donor concentration (X 10 15 cm “ 3 ) It is.
- the amount of precipitated oxygen can be calculated by applying a general growth equation representing the growth and extinction of a nucleus generated at a critical nucleus radius at each temperature under diffusion control.
- the thermal donor concentration can be determined from the change in resistivity before and after the donor erasure heat treatment, or from a thermal history between 400 ° C and 550 ° C and the oxygen concentration using a prediction formula.
- the thermal donor generated according to the initial oxygen concentration in the silicon single crystal and the thermal history between 400 ° C and 550 ° C that the silicon single crystal receives during crystal growth By determining the concentration and the nucleation rate of oxygen precipitates generated in the silicon single crystal during the heat treatment process when the silicon single crystal is heat-treated, By specifying the heat treatment conditions, it can be said that the density of oxygen precipitates and the amount of oxygen precipitates under arbitrary heat treatment conditions can be predicted by calculation.
- the above calculation method is programmed and stored in a storage medium.
- the above operation is performed by the arithmetic unit of the computer. In this way, the calculation efficiency can be improved and an accurate calculation result can be obtained.
- the invention's effect is programmed and stored in a storage medium.
- the present invention it is possible to predict the density of oxygen precipitates and the amount of precipitated oxygen under arbitrary heat treatment conditions by calculating the oxygen concentration, the thermal donor concentration, and the heat treatment conditions as parameters.
- the parameters of the silicon single crystal wafer manufacturing process are determined so that the heat treatment process performed in the device manufacturing process can obtain an oxygen precipitation state exhibiting appropriate IG capability.
- the reliability of the calculation results is improved. This eliminates the need for labor-intensive work such as determining the conditions for obtaining an appropriate oxygen precipitation state for each heat treatment condition as in the related art. Therefore, it is easy to design an appropriate silicon single crystal wafer for any heat treatment process without reducing work efficiency. Is made.
- the calculation consists of the following steps 1) -1).
- the heat treatment process is divided into a plurality of time intervals, and the nucleation rate for each time interval is determined by the nucleation rate equation using the initial oxygen concentration, thermal donor concentration, and temperature, and the density of nuclei generated in each time interval.
- the oxygen precipitate is a silicon oxygen compound of Si ⁇ and is spherical.
- the thermal donor concentration of a silicon single crystal has a strong correlation with the time required to pass between 450 ° C and 500 ° C and the oxygen concentration during the cooling process during crystal growth. It is possible to ask. However, it is preferable to obtain it by the following calculation method.
- TD thermal donor concentration
- TD eq thermal equilibrium concentration of the thermal donor concentration
- a coefficient ( 9. 2 X 10- 5 ° )
- k Boltzmann constant
- T absolute temperature
- D diffusion coefficient of oxygen
- C Oxygen concentration
- t time
- the time t is represented by the following equation (3).
- TD TD (T 2 ) eq ⁇ l -expC- a DC (t 1 2 + t)) ⁇ ... (4)
- FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a cooling curve at a straight body position in a crystal growth process of a silicon single crystal.
- Fig. 1 shows the cooling curve for a crystal with a diameter of 150 mm, and the straight body starting position, the straight-line distance separated by a predetermined ⁇ giant separation (50, 150, 250, 350, 450, 550, 650, 750 mm) The cooling curve during crystal growth at the barrel position is shown.
- the temperature of the silicon single crystal constantly decreases during crystal growth. Therefore, it is necessary to repeat the above-mentioned calculation. That is, the equivalent amount of thermal donor generation (concentration) TD at the temperature T up to the temperature T where the temperature has dropped is determined, and the equivalent time t is added with the time increase of the time step ⁇ t to add the amount of thermal donor generation. (Concentration) The calculation of TD is repeated.
- the generation of the thermal donor is the most active force between 450 ° C and 500 ° C.
- the temperature range to be calculated is 400 ° C power, which is wider than 550 ° C.
- FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the thermal donor concentration obtained by calculation and the thermal donor concentration obtained by actual measurement.
- the calculated value shown in FIG. 2 is the thermal donor concentration at each straight body position when the above-described calculation method is applied to the temperature history in FIG.
- the heat treatment process of 2) is divided into a plurality of time intervals at predetermined intervals, for example, 5 second intervals, and the nucleation rate in each time interval is calculated by the nucleation rate equation using the initial oxygen concentration, the thermal donor concentration, and the temperature.
- the process of obtaining the density of nuclei generated in each time interval by the calculation is described below.
- the present inventors have found that the nucleation rate at each temperature is shown as a function of oxygen concentration and thermal donor concentration. The relationship is shown as the following equation (5). In the following equation (5),
- T, C, TD nucleation rate (cm— 3 s—, T: temperature, a (T): coefficient determined by temperature, C: oxygen concentration (X 10 17 cm 3 ) TD: thermal donor concentration ( X 10 15 cm 1-3 )
- FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the correspondence between the coefficients used in the equation for determining the nucleation rate of oxygen precipitates and the temperature.
- the present inventors have found that the coefficient a (T) determined by the temperature has the value shown in FIG.
- the thermal donor concentration TD used in the above equation (5) is an as grown concentration generated during the crystal growth process.
- As the electrical properties there is a substance that disappears during heating in heat treatment.
- the thermal donor generated during the heat treatment should also be added.
- a feature of the present invention is that it has been found that the nucleation rate of oxygen precipitates is expressed by the above equation (5), and for the first time the effect of the thermal donor is applied to the calculation prediction.
- N (t ') I (T, C, T D) A t... (6)
- the radius of the generated nucleus is assumed to be a critical nucleus radius Rcri represented by the following equation (7).
- R W Time radius of the nucleus generated at the time t before the force A t elapses
- Ci Equilibrium oxygen concentration at the interface of the spherical particles of radius
- R (, t) can be obtained by the calculation using the above equation (8). Since the change in the oxygen concentration in the silicon single crystal is represented by the following equation (9), the amount of precipitated oxygen can be calculated. Since the oxygen concentration decreases by the amount of precipitated oxygen, the residual oxygen concentration can be obtained as the difference between the initial oxygen concentration and the amount of oxygen precipitation obtained by using the following equation (9). The arithmetic processing of obtaining the residual oxygen concentration for each time interval, obtaining the nucleus generation rate of the oxygen precipitate, and obtaining the growth of the oxygen precipitate is repeated.
- the above calculation method is programmed and stored in a storage medium.
- the program is executed by inputting the parameter, the above calculation is performed by the calculation device of the computer. In this way, the calculation efficiency can be improved and an accurate calculation result can be obtained.
- Example 1 As Example 1, verification of the prediction of oxygen precipitation behavior according to the present invention is performed for a typical heat treatment process.
- the heat treatment performed is to put the wafer into a furnace at the set temperature and hold it.
- Silicon single crystals used was an oxygen concentration of 11 X 10 17 - 17 X 10 17 atoms N m 3 (formerly
- the process that occurs at 800 ° C or lower is called nucleation heat treatment, and the process where nucleus growth mainly occurs at 800 ° C or higher is called growth heat treatment.
- a growth heat treatment was applied to measure the density of oxygen precipitates and the amount of oxygen precipitates.
- the measured value and the calculated value of the amount of oxygen precipitate of the oxygen precipitate are compared.
- the actually measured value was determined by taking the difference in the amount of infrared absorption of dissolved oxygen before and after the heat treatment. Also
- FIG. 4 is a diagram showing measured values and calculated values of the amount of oxygen deposition when the growth heat treatment 1 is added after the nucleation heat treatment.
- FIG. 5 shows measured and calculated values of the amount of precipitated oxygen when the growth heat treatment 2 was added after the nucleation heat treatment.
- Fig. 6 shows the actual amount of oxygen precipitates when the growth heat treatment 3 was added after the nucleation heat treatment. It is a figure which shows a measured value and a calculated value. In each of the figures, the abscissa is the measured value and the ordinate is the calculated value. As the distribution closer to the straight line A is obtained in each figure, the difference between the measured value and the calculated value is smaller. In FIGS. 4, 5, and 6, the calculated value of the amount of precipitated oxygen and the measured value are almost the same, and a distribution close to the straight line A is obtained. From this result, it can be seen that the accuracy of the calculation according to the present invention is high.
- the measured value was obtained by a selective etching method. Further, the calculated value was obtained by the calculation of the present invention. The results are shown in FIGS. 7, 8, and 9.
- FIG. 7 is a diagram showing measured and calculated values of the density of oxygen precipitates in the case where the growth heat treatment 1 is added after the nucleation heat treatment.
- FIG. 8 is a diagram showing measured values and calculated values of the density of oxygen precipitates when the growth heat treatment 2 is added after the nucleation heat treatment.
- FIG. 9 is a diagram showing measured and calculated values of the density of oxygen precipitates when the growth heat treatment 3 is added after the nucleation heat treatment.
- the horizontal axis represents measured values and the vertical axis represents computed values. In each figure, the closer the distribution closer to the straight line A is obtained, the smaller the difference between the measured values and computed values.
- FIGS. 7, 8, and 9 the calculated values of the density of oxygen precipitates and the measured values are almost the same, and a distribution close to the straight line A is obtained. From this result, it can be seen that the accuracy of the calculation according to the present invention is high.
- Patent Document 6 described above by the present inventors discloses a method for predicting the amount of precipitated oxygen.
- the method disclosed in Patent Document 6 is a method in which the growth heat treatment under the three conditions described in the present embodiment is limited, and the amount of precipitated oxygen is determined by multivariate analysis. Therefore, this method was not applicable to a wide range of heat treatment conditions, and was not versatile. In addition, no information was obtained on the density and average size of the oxygen precipitates.
- the density of oxygen precipitates can be predicted with excellent accuracy together with the amount of oxygen precipitates. This means that the average number of oxygen atoms constituting the oxygen precipitate, that is, the average size of the oxygen precipitate can be predicted.
- Example 2 the prediction of the oxygen precipitation behavior according to the present invention was verified for a heat treatment process different from that of Example 1, and the versatility of the present invention was confirmed.
- the heat treatment was performed in a low-temperature furnace. ⁇ It is to throw the e-ha and gradually heat it to the set temperature.
- the wafer was charged into a furnace at 500 ° C., and after the charging, the temperature was raised at a rate of 1 ° C.Z. Then, four temperatures of 650, 700, 750, and 800 ° C were set as the reached temperatures, and after the furnace temperature reached the set temperature, each temperature was maintained for 4 hours. After performing such a nucleation heat treatment on Aha Co., a growth heat treatment was performed at 780 ° C for 3 hours + 1000 ° C for 16 hours, and the density of oxygen precipitates and the amount of oxygen precipitates were measured.
- the measured value and the calculated value of the amount of oxygen precipitate of the oxygen precipitate are compared.
- FIG. 10 shows the results.
- FIG. 10 shows measured and calculated values of the amount of precipitated oxygen when the growth heat treatment was applied after the nucleation heat treatment.
- Fig. 10 shows the measured values on the horizontal axis and the calculated values on the vertical axis, and the closer the distribution closer to the straight line A is obtained in Fig. 10, the more the difference between the measured value and the calculated value is It can be said that there are few.
- the calculated value of the amount of precipitated oxygen and the measured value are almost the same, and a distribution close to the straight line A is obtained. From this result, it can be seen that the accuracy of the calculation according to the present invention is high.
- FIG. 11 is a diagram showing measured and calculated values of the density of oxygen precipitates when a growth heat treatment is applied after a nucleation heat treatment.
- Fig. 11 shows the measured values on the horizontal axis and the calculated values on the vertical axis.
- the calculated value of the density of oxygen precipitates and the measured value are almost the same, and a distribution close to the straight line A is obtained. From this result, it can be seen that the accuracy of the operation according to the present invention is high.
- the density of oxygen precipitates can be predicted with excellent accuracy together with the amount of oxygen precipitates. This means that the average number of oxygen atoms constituting the oxygen precipitate, that is, the average size of the oxygen precipitate can be predicted.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a cooling curve at a straight body position in a crystal growth process of a silicon single crystal.
- FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a thermal donor concentration obtained by calculation and a thermal donor concentration obtained by actual measurement.
- FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a correspondence relationship between a coefficient used in an equation for calculating a nucleation rate of oxygen precipitates and temperature.
- FIG. 4 is a diagram showing measured and calculated values of the amount of precipitated oxygen when a nucleation heat treatment is performed and then a growth heat treatment is performed at 800 ° C for 4 hours + 1000 ° C for 16 hours.
- Fig. 4 is a diagram showing measured and calculated values of the amount of precipitated oxygen when a growth heat treatment is performed at 900 ° C for 4 hours + 1000 ° C for 16 hours after the nucleation heat treatment.
- Fig. 6 is a diagram showing measured and calculated values of the amount of precipitated oxygen when a nucleation heat treatment is performed and then a growth heat treatment is performed at 1000 ° C for 16 hours.
- FIG. 7 is a graph showing the density and calculated values of oxygen precipitates when a growth heat treatment was applied at 800 ° C for 4 hours + 1000 ° C for 16 hours after a nucleation heat treatment.
- Fig. 8 shows the measured and calculated values of the density of oxygen precipitates when the growth heat treatment was applied at 900 ° C for 4 hours + 1000 ° C for 16 hours after the nucleation heat treatment. is there.
- FIG. 9 is a diagram showing measured and calculated values of the density of oxygen precipitates when a growth heat treatment at 1000 ° C. for 16 hours is performed after a nucleation heat treatment.
- FIG. 10 is a diagram showing measured and calculated values of oxygen precipitation when a nucleation heat treatment is performed and then a growth heat treatment at 780 ° C for 3 hours + 1000 ° C for 16 hours is applied. .
- Fig. 11 shows the measured and calculated values of the density of oxygen precipitates when the nucleation heat treatment was performed and the growth heat treatment was performed at 780 ° C for 3 hours + 1000 ° C for 16 hours. It is.
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