Specific Process Knowledge/Thermal Process

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Choose a process type

• Oxidation - Grow a thermal oxide on silicon
• Annealing
• Doping with Boron
• Doping with Phosphorus
• Resist pyrolysis

Choose an equipment to use

A stack furnaces:

• Boron Drive-in + Predep furnace (A1) - For oxidation and annealing of Si wafers, and for boron pre-deposition (doping) and for drive-in afterwards
• Gate Oxide furnace (A2) - For dry oxidation of Si wafers
• Phosphorus Drive-in furnace (A3) - For oxidation and annealing of Si wafers and for drive-in after phosphorus pre-dep
• Phosphorus Predep furnace (A4) - For pre-deposition (doping) of phosphorus on Si wafers

C stack furnaces:

• Anneal-oxide furnace (C1) - For oxidation and annealing of 100 mm and 150 mm wafers
• General Purpose Annealing furnace (C2) - For annealing of different samples and materials.
• Anneal-bond furnace (C3) - For oxidation and annealing of bonded wafers
• Aluminium Anneal furnace (C4) - For annealing and oxidation of wafers containing e.g. aluminium, Al₂O₃ and TiO₂

E stack furnaces:

• Oxidation (8") furnace (E1) - For oxidation and annealing of 150 mm and 200 mm wafers

Other furnaces:

• Resist Pyrolysis (former Multipurpose Anneal) furnace - For mainly resist pyrolysis
• RTP2 Jipelec - For rapid thermal annealing of III-V materials, Si-based materials and some metals
• RTP Annealsys - For rapid thermal annealing, rapid thermal oxidation and smoothing of Si-based materials.
• BCB Curing oven - For resist curing and metal alloyinglayers

Rules for storage and RCA cleaning of wafers to the A and C stack furnaces

• Storage and cleaning of wafer to the A and C stack furnaces

Manual for the furnace computer to the A, B, C and E stack furnaces

The A, B, C and E stack furnaces can be controlled either from a touch screen by each furnace or from a furnace computer. The user manual for the furnace computer can be found here in LabManager (login required):

Decommissioned equipment

• RTP Jipelec - For rapid thermal annealing of III-V materials and Si-based materials
• APOX furnace - For growing of very thick oxide layers
• III-V Oven (D4) - For oxidation of Al_xGaAs layers.
• Old Resist Pyrolysis furnace - For pyrolysis of different resist
• Noble furnace - For annealing and oxidation of non-clean wafers