Specific Process Knowledge/Thermal Process/Dope with Phosphorus

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The furnace A4 phosphorus predep(N-predep) can be used to predeposit silicon wafers with phosphor. The silicon wafers are positioned in a quarts boat. Phosphor is predeposited in the silicon wafers.

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Test of Phosphorus Predep furnace

Purpose

To study the coherence between the temperature of the Predep and dive-in for doping with phosphorus in DTU-Danchip Phosphorus Predep furnace (A4).

Experiment setup

There was used 20 boron doped wafers (p-type). There was used four wafer to the five different temperature. There was five dummy wafers on each side of the test wafers. The dummy wafer nearest to the test wafers was changed in between the runes so doping from a dummy wafer was minimized.

Run # Temperature Process time with POCl3 Anneal time in N2 Wafer #
1 850 oC 15 minutes 20 miuntes 1, 2, 3, 4
2 900 oC 15 minutes 20 miuntes 5, 6, 7, 8
3 950 oC 15 minutes 20 miuntes 9, 10, 11, 12
4 1000 oC 15 minutes 20 miuntes 13, 14, 15, 16
5 1050 oC 15 minutes 20 miuntes 17, 18, 19, 20

After the Predep was two wafer from each run taken out to be further processed. The wafers was 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 13, 14, 17, 18.

These wafers was dipped in BHF to get the phosphorus glass layer of before the Drive-in process. The Drive-in process was made in Danchip Phosphorus Drive-in furnace (A3). There was a dummy wafer in between the wafers from different temperatures so doping from wafer to wafer was minimized. The Drive-in was done with the process "DRY1050" with is a dry oxidation at 1050 oC for 100 minutes and 20 minutes annealing. At the oxdation was the O2 flow was 5 SLM and N2 flow for annealing was 3 SLM.

Test measurement

There was made several measurement on the different wafer in the process. After the Predep was the Phosphorus glass layer thickness measured and the sheet resistance and slice resistivity measured on the same after a BHF etch.


Measurement after Predep
Elipsometer Four Point Probe
Wafer # Thinkness [nm] Refrative index Sheet resistance [Ωsq] Slice Resistivity [Ωcm]
3 27,4 1,4623 311 17,32
7 45,27 1,4622 138,5 7,61
11 61,36 1,4625 16,12 0,859
15 80,45 1,4624 7,4 0,392
19 119,37 1,4623 6,6 0,246


Measurement after Drive-in
Avg. five point on Filmtek Four Point Probe
Wafer # Thinkness [nm] Refrative index Sheet resistance [Ωsq] Slice Resistivity [Ωcm]
2 110,436 1,46536 189,7 13,06
6 116,284 1,46288 101,6 5,32
9 137,06 1,4604 10,05 0,527
14 141,456 1,46508 4,72 0,216
18 139,872 1,46586 3,23 0,165
Test 110,7118 1,46286 - -