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Measuring detector and a method of fabrication of said detector
Assignee: Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et Aux Énergies Alternatives
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Filing: 1972-01-26
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Granted: 1977-09-13
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Expires: 1992-01-26
Abstract
Abstract The measuring detector is constituted by the resistance of a given volume of doped semiconductor, there being formed on one face of a semiconducting monocrystal a surface region having a well-determined thickness and a well-determined concentration of doping ions and two electrical contacts at the extremities of said region. The doped surface region is obtained by ion implantation and there is formed on the second face of the monocrystal a metallic coating which has good thermal conductivity and is in good thermal contact with said second face. The detector is primarily applicable to thermometric measurements at very low temperatures below 1° K.
Inventors
- 👤 Jean Bernard
- 👤 Giorgio Frossati
- 👤 Georges Guernet
- 👤 Michel Montier
- 👤 Louise Peccoud nee Toupillier
- 👤 Daniel Thoulouze
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-29 21:39
CPC Classifications
G; G01; G01K; G01K7/00; G01K7/01
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 22
Claim 1
Independent Claim
120 words
A method of fabricating a thermometric measuring detector for use at very low temperatures of the type constituted by the resistance of a given volumn of a doped semi-conductor, comprising: providing a semiconductor monocrystal having one type of conductivity, forming by ion implantation on a surface of a semiconductor monocrystal a surface region having a predetermined thickness having the same type conductivity as said monocrystal, and having a predetermined concentration of doping ions greater than the concentration of impurities in said monocrystal, forming electrical contacts at the extremities of said region, and forming a thermally conductive metallic coating on a face of said crystal opposite said surface region bonded to said crystal to be in thermal contact with said crystal.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
120 words
A method of fabricating a thermometric measuring detector for use at very low temperatures of the type constituted by the resistance of a given volumn of a doped semi-conductor, comprising: providing a semiconductor monocrystal having one type of conductivity, forming by ion implantation on a surface of a semiconductor monocrystal a surface region having a predetermined thickness having the same type conductivity as said monocrystal, and having a predetermined concentration of doping ions greater than the concentration of impurities in said monocrystal, forming electrical contacts at the extremities of said region, and forming a thermally conductive metallic coating on a face of said crystal opposite said surface region bonded to said crystal to be in thermal contact with said crystal.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
25 words
A method of measuring temperature comprising fabricating a detector as recited in claim 1 and subjecting said metallic coating to the temperature to be measured.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
44 words
A method according to claim 1, wherein said electrical contacts are obtained by the doping, by means of impurities of the same type as those of said doped surface region, of two surface zones located at the two extremities of said doped surface region.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
19 words
A method according to claim 3, wherein said doping of the two surface zones is carried out by diffusion.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
22 words
A method according to claim 3, wherein said electrical contacts are completed by a metallic deposit which covers said doped surface zones.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
31 words
A method according to claim 1, wherein the junction between the second face of the semiconducting monocrystal and said metallic coating is formed by constituting a eutectic between the two substances.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
13 words
A method according to claim 1, wherein said semi-conducting monocrystal is of silicon.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
17 words
A method according to claim 1, wherein doping of said surface region is of the n type.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
12 words
A method according to claim 8, wherein the doping impurity is phosphorus.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
18 words
A method according to claim 3, wherein the doping of said surface zones is carried out with phosphorus.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
13 words
A method according to claim 1, wherein said metallic coating is of gold.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
31 words
A method according to claim 1, wherein the doping of said surface region is defined by concentrations of 2.5 to 3 × 10 18 donor atoms in excess per cubic centimeter.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
20 words
A method according to claim 1, wherein the thickness of said surface region is of the order of 1 micron.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
31 words
A method according to claim 1, wherein doping of said original semiconducting monocrystal is defined by a concentration of the order of 10 17 donor atoms in excess per cubic centimeter.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
26 words
A method according to claim 11, wherein said ion implantation of phosphorus into the silicon is carried out with ions having an energy of 130 keV.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
148 words
A method according to claim 1, wherein the formation of said doped surface region and of said two electrical contacts entails the following operations, starting from a basic semiconducting monocrystal: a. thermal oxidation of the first face of the semiconductor; b. selective dissolving of the oxide obtained on the zones of the contacts; c. selective diffusion of the doping atoms on said zones; d. washing of oxides which have formed; e. selective surface ion implantation of the region located between the contacts; f. uniform deposition of an electrical insulator on said first face of the semiconductor; g. selective dissolving of said electrical insulator outside a surface including said surface region and including on each side of said region a part of said zones diffused in section c); h. surface metallization above said diffused zones which may cover on each side the edges of the remaining deposit of silica.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
16 words
A method according to claim 16, wherein said electrical insulator is silica deposited at low temperature.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
20 words
A method according to claim 5, wherein wires are welded to said metallic deposits which cover the doped surface zones.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
12 words
A method according to claim 18, wherein said wires are of gold.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
20 words
A method according to at least one of claim 1, wherein said detector is coated with a hardenable plastic material.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
14 words
A thermometric detector as fabricated in accordance with the method defined in claim 1.
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