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Phosphorus Drive-in furnace (A3)

Phosphorus Drive-in furnace (A3). Positioned in cleanroom B-1

The Phosphorus Drive-in furnace (A3) is a Tempress horizontal furnace for thermal oxidation of silicon wafers. Furthermore, the furnace is used for phosphorus drive-in after the pre-deposition or after boron ion implantation.

The furnace is mostly used for wet and dry thermal oxidation of silicon wafers. The oxidation recipes are named e.g. "WET1000" and "DRY1000", where "WET" or "DRY" indicates whether it is a wet or dry oxidation process, and the number indicates the oxidation temperature.

The purpose of the phosphorus doping is to make conductive structures, etch stop layers etc. After a phosphorus pre-deposition/doping or ion implantation process, a drive-in process with or without an oxide growth is done in the furnace. The phosphorus pre-deposition is normally done in the Phosphorus Pre-dep (A4) furnace, and ion implantation have to be done elsewhere.

The Phosphorus Drive-in furnace is the third furnace tube in the A-stack positioned in cleanroom B-1. 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 Boron Drive-in and Pre-dep furnace is the top furnace tube in the furnace A-stack positioned in cleanroom B-1. 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 (except wafers coming form the Phosphorus Pre-dep furnace that have been BHF etched in the dedicated bath at the RCA bench), and please check the cross contamination information in LabManager, before you use the furnace. Before boron pre-deposition, also the source wafers and a dedicated carbide boat have to be RCA cleaned.

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

Phosphorus Drive-in furnace (A3)

Process knowledge

• Phosphorus drive-in: look at the Dope with Phosphorus page
• Oxidation: look at the Oxidation page
• Annealing: look at the Annealing page

Quality Control - Recipe Parameters and Limits

Quality Control (QC) for the processes "Wet1050" and "Dry1050"

The QC procedure for Phosphorus drive-in furnace (A3) The newest QC data for wet and dry oxide QC Recipe: Wet1050 Dry1050 H2 flow 3 slm 0 slm O2 flow 2 slm 5 slm Temperature 1050 C 1050 C Oxidation time 30 min 100 min QC limits Thickness Non-uniformity (both over a single wafer and over the boat) Dry1050 110-116 nm 3 % Wet1050 305-321 nm 5 %

Overview of the performance of the phosphorus drive-in furnace and some process related parameters

Purpose	Drive-in of phosphorous Oxidation of silicon Oxidation of phosphorous phase layers	Oxidation: Dry Wet: with torch (H2+O2)
Performance	Film thickness	Dry SiO2: 50 Å to ~2000 Å (it takes too long to grow a thicker oxide layer) Wet SiO2: 50 Å to ~3 µm (it takes too long to grow a thicker oxide layer)
Process parameter range	Process Temperature	800-1150 oC
	Process pressure	1 atm
	Gasses on the system	O2, N2 and H2
Substrates	Batch size	1-30 100 mm wafers (or 50 mm wafers) per run
	Substrate materials allowed	Silicon wafers (RCA cleaned) Wafers from the the Phosphorus Pre-dep furnace can go directly into the furnace