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Boron Drive-in + Pre-dep furnace (A1)

A1 Boron Drive-in + Pre-dep furnace. Positioned in cleanroom 2

The Boron Drive-in + Pre-dep furnane (A1) is a Tempress horizontal furnace for oxidation of silicon wafers, annealing of the grown oxide, drive-in of boron after a pre-deposition and oxidation of the boron phase layer. Boron pre-deposition takes place in the same furnace. The Boron Drive-in furnace can also be used for drive-in of boron which has been ion implanted.

Boron source wafers are used as the doping source for the pre-dep process to dope Si wafers with boron to make conductive structues, etch stop layers etc. There are only a few source wafers, i.e. it is not possible to make an entire batch of 30 wafers, but both sides of the doping source wafers are available for pre-deposition. It is necessary to activate the source wafers before use, by heating them for 1 hour at the temperature needed during the pre-deposition (but not lover than 1050 degrees Celsius). During the process a boron phase layer is created on the device wafers. It can be removed in HF if the wafers are oxidised in the A1 Bor Drive-in + Pre-dep furnace after the pre-deposition.

The Boron Drive-in + Pre-dep furnace is the top furnace tube in the A-stack positioned in cleanroom 2. The furnaces in the A-stack are the cleanest of all furnaces in the cleanroom. Please be aware of that all wafers have to be RCA cleaned before they enter the furnace, and check the cross contamination information in LabManager before you use the furnace.

The user manual, quality control instruction and results, technical information and contact information can be found in LabManager:

Boron Drive-in + Pre-dep furnace (A1)

Process knowledge


Quality Control - Parameters and Limits

Quality Controle (QC) for the processes "Wet1050" and "Dry1050"
QC Recipe: Wet1050 Dry1050
H2 flow 3 sccm 0 sccm
O2 flow 2 sccm 5 sccm
Temperature 1050 C 1050 C
Oxidation time 30 min 100 min
QC limits Thickness Non-uniformity
Dry1050 108-114 nm 3 %
Wet1050 286-302 nm 5 %

Overview of the performance of the Boron drive-in + Pre-dep furnace and some process related parameters

Purpose
  • Drive-in of boron
  • Oxidation of silicon
  • Oxidation of boron phase layer
  • Annealing of the oxide
Oxidation:
  • Dry
  • Wet: with torch (H2+O2)
Performance Film thickness
  • Dry oxide: 50 Å to ~2000 Å (it takes too long to grow a thicker oxide)
  • Wet oxide>: 50 Å to ~3 µm (it takes too long to grow a thicker oxide)
Process parameter range Process Temperature
  • 800-1150 oC
Process pressure
  • 1 atm
Gasses on the system
  • O2, H2 and N2
Substrates Batch size
  • 1-30 100 nm wafer (or 50 nm wafers) per run
Substrate material allowed
  • Silicon wafers (new or RCA cleaned wafers)
  • From A2 furnace directly (e.g. incl. Predep HF)


Purpose Doping of boron
Performance

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Process parameter range Process Temperature
  • 900-1150 oC
Process pressure
  • 1 atm
Gasses on the system
  • Ar, N2
Substrates Batch size
  • 1-12 100 nm wafers (or 50 nm wafers) per run
Substrate material allowed