Specific Process Knowledge/Thermal Process/Annealing: Difference between revisions
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*Wet anneal with H2O in a bubbler is used for ? and can be done in furnaces:C1,C2,C3. | *Wet anneal with H2O in a bubbler is used for ? and can be done in furnaces:C1,C2,C3. | ||
==Comparing the | ==Comparing the seven annealing equipments== | ||
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| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''C3 Anneal bond''' | | align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''C3 Anneal bond''' | ||
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''C4 Anneal aluminium''' | | align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''C4 Anneal aluminium''' | ||
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Nobel furnace''' | |||
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''RTP''' | |||
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! General description | ! General description | ||
|Drive-in of boron deposited in the boron pre-dep furnace(A2) or drive-in of ion implanted boron. Can also be used for dry and wet oxidation.||Drive-in of phosphorous deposited in the phosphorous pre-dep furnace(A2) or drive-in of ion implanted phosphorous. Can also be used for dry and wet oxidation.||Oxidation of gate-oxide and other especially clean oxides. At the moment also used for general oxidation of 6" wafers.||Annealing and oxidation of wafers from the B-stack and PECVD1.||Annealing and oxidation of wafers from NIL.||Annealing of wafers with aluminium on. | |Drive-in of boron deposited in the boron pre-dep furnace(A2) or drive-in of ion implanted boron. Can also be used for dry and wet oxidation.||Drive-in of phosphorous deposited in the phosphorous pre-dep furnace(A2) or drive-in of ion implanted phosphorous. Can also be used for dry and wet oxidation.||Oxidation of gate-oxide and other especially clean oxides. At the moment also used for general oxidation of 6" wafers.||Annealing and oxidation of wafers from the B-stack and PECVD1.||Annealing and oxidation of wafers from NIL.||Annealing of wafers with aluminium on.|||| | ||
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! Dry annealing | ! Dry annealing | ||
|x||x||x (with special permission)||x||x||x | |x||x||x (with special permission)||x||x||x||x||x | ||
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!Wet annealing with bubler (water steam + N2) | !Wet annealing with bubler (water steam + N2) | ||
|||||x (with special permission)||x||x|| | |||||x (with special permission)||x||x|||||| | ||
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!Process temperature | !Process temperature | ||
|800-1150 <sup>o</sup>C||800-1150 <sup>o</sup>C||800-1150 <sup>o</sup>C||800-1150 <sup>o</sup>C||800-1150 <sup>o</sup>C||800-1150 <sup>o</sup>C | |800-1150 <sup>o</sup>C||800-1150 <sup>o</sup>C||800-1150 <sup>o</sup>C||800-1150 <sup>o</sup>C||800-1150 <sup>o</sup>C||800-1150 <sup>o</sup>C||800-1150<sup>o</sup>C||? | ||
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! Batch size | ! Batch size | ||
|max. 30 wafers of 4" or 2"||max. 30 4" wafers or 2" wafers||max. 30 wafers of 6",4" or 2"||max. 30 4" wafers or 2" wafers||max. 30 4" wafers or 2" wafers||max. 30 4" wafers or 2" wafers | |max. 30 wafers of 4" or 2"||max. 30 4" wafers or 2" wafers||max. 30 wafers of 6",4" or 2"||max. 30 4" wafers or 2" wafers||max. 30 4" wafers or 2" wafers||max. 30 4" wafers or 2" wafers||?||? | ||
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!style="background:#f0f0f0;"|Which wafers are allowed to enter the furnace: | !style="background:#f0f0f0;"|Which wafers are allowed to enter the furnace: | ||
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| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''C3 Anneal bond''' | | align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''C3 Anneal bond''' | ||
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''C4 Anneal aluminium''' | | align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''C4 Anneal aluminium''' | ||
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Nobel furnace''' | |||
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''RTP''' | |||
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| New clean* Si wafers 4" (6" in C1)||x||x||x (with special permission)||x||x||x | | New clean* Si wafers 4" (6" in C1)||x||x||x (with special permission)||x||x||x||x||x | ||
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| RCA clean** Si wafers with no history of Metals on||x||x||x (with special permission)||x||x||x | | RCA clean** Si wafers with no history of Metals on||x||x||x (with special permission)||x||x||x||x||x | ||
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| From Predep furnace directly (e.g. incl. Predep HF**)||From A2||From A4|||||||| | | From Predep furnace directly (e.g. incl. Predep HF**)||From A2||From A4|||||||||||| | ||
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| Wafers directly from PECVD1||||||||x||x||x | | Wafers directly from PECVD1||||||||x||x||x||x||x | ||
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| Wafers directly from NIL bonding||||||||||x||x | | Wafers directly from NIL bonding||||||||||x||x||x||x | ||
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|Wafers with aluminium on||||||||||||x | |Wafers with aluminium on||||||||||||x||x||x | ||
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|wafers with other metals||||||||||||||x||x | |||
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|wafers with III-V materials||||||||||||||||x | |||
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