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Anneal-bond furnace (C3)

C3 Anneal-bond furnace. Positioned in cleanroom 2

The Anneal-bond furnace (C3) is a Tempress horizontal furnace for oxidation and annealing of new and processed (bonded) silicon wafers.

This furnace is the third furnace tube in the furnace C-stack positioned in cleanroom 2.

In this furnace it is allowed oxidize and anneale wafers without doing a RCA clean first. Also bonded wafers comming directly from the EVG NIL (assuming they were very clean when entering EVG NIL and not contain any metal). Check the cross contamination information in LabManager can enter the furnace. Check the cross contamination information in LabManager.

The user manual, technical information and contact information can be found in LabManager:

Anneal-bond Furnace (C3)

Process knowledge

Overview of the performance of Anneal Bond furnace and some process related parameters

Purpose
  • Oxidation of Si wafers
  • Annealing of processed wafer, eg. bonded wafers
Oxidation:
  • Dry
  • Wet: with bubbler (water steam + N2)
Performance Film thickness
  • Dry SiO2: 50 Å to ~2000 Å (it takes too long to grow a thicker oxide)
  • Wet SiO2: 50 Å to ~5 µm (it takes too long to grow a thicker oxide)
Process parameter range Process Temperature
  • 800-1150 oC
Process pressure
  • 1 atm
Gas flows
  • N2: 5 sccm
  • O2: 5 sccm
Substrates Batch size
  • 1-30 4" wafer (or 2" wafers) per run
Substrate material allowed
  • Silicon wafers (new from the box or RCA cleaned)
  • Silicon wafers with layers of silicon oxide or silicon (oxy)nitride (RCA cleaned)
  • Quartz wafers (RCA cleaned)
  • From bonding in EVG NIL directly (assuming they fulfilled the above before entering the EVG NIL)