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Method of impurity doping into semiconductor
Assignee: Hitachi Ltd
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Filing: 1994-11-09
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Granted: 1996-08-06
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Expires: 2014-11-09
Abstract
Abstract A method of impurity doping into a semiconductor, which comprises irradiating energy rays such as excimer laser beam (or UV-rays) to a predetermined region of a hydrogen terminated silicon surface to remove hydrogen atom layers terminating the silicon surface thereby forming a patterned silicon surface region not terminated with hydrogen and selectively adsorbing impurities on the silicon surface region not terminated with hydrogen, to conduct impurity doping. When such an impurity doping method is adopted, junctions having shallow and abrupt distribution for use in a miniaturized MOSFET or the like can be attained with a lesser number of the steps. Since the impurity doping process can be constituted as a clean and all dry in-situ process without using photoresist at all, it can also provide advantageous effect in view of enhanced yield and shortened production period.
Inventors
- 👤 Eiichi Murakami
- 👤 Shin'icniro Kimura
Bibliographic Details
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Jurisdiction
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2026-11-08 13:52
CPC Classifications
H; H10; H10D; H10D84/00; H10D84/01; H10D84/0123; H10D84/0126; H10D84/0165; H10D84/017; H10D84/02; H10D84/03; H10D84/038; H10P; H10P32/00; H10P32/10; H10P32/14; H10P32/1408; H10P32/141; H10P32/17; H10P32/171
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 21
Claim 1
Independent Claim
101 words
A method of impurity doping into a silicon semiconductor, which comprises irradiating energy rays to a region of a hydrogen terminated silicon surface to remove hydrogen atom layers terminating the silicon surface thereby forming a patterned first silicon surface region not terminated with hydrogen, forming an oxide film on the patterned first silicon surface region by exposure to an oxidizing atmosphere, then removing residual hydrogen atom layers to form a second silicon surface region and selectively adsorbing impurities to the second silicon surface region using said oxide film as a mask, thereby applying impurity doping to the second silicon surface region.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
101 words
A method of impurity doping into a silicon semiconductor, which comprises irradiating energy rays to a region of a hydrogen terminated silicon surface to remove hydrogen atom layers terminating the silicon surface thereby forming a patterned first silicon surface region not terminated with hydrogen, forming an oxide film on the patterned first silicon surface region by exposure to an oxidizing atmosphere, then removing residual hydrogen atom layers to form a second silicon surface region and selectively adsorbing impurities to the second silicon surface region using said oxide film as a mask, thereby applying impurity doping to the second silicon surface region.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
42 words
The method of impurity doping into a silicon semiconductor as defined in claim 1, wherein impurity doping is applied by selectively adsorbing the impurity and then covering the surface with a silicon film or an oxide film in an identical processing apparatus.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
51 words
The method of impurity doping into a silicon semiconductor as defined in claim 1, wherein the impurity adsorbed selectively is selected from the group consisting of Sb, As, P, SbH 3 , AsH 3 , PH 3 , HBO 2 , B 2 O 3 and B 2 H 6 .
Claim 5
Independent Claim
125 words
A method of impurity doping into a silicon semiconductor, which comprises irradiating energy rays to a region of a hydrogen terminated silicon surface to remove hydrogen atom layers terminating the silicon surface thereby forming a patterned first silicon surface region not terminated with hydrogen, selectively adsorbing impurities of a first conduction type to the patterned first silicon surface region to form an impurity adsorption layer of the first conduction type, then removing residual hydrogen atom layers to form a second silicon surface region, and selectively adsorbing impurities of a second conduction type to the second silicon surface region using said impurity adsorption layer of the first conduction type as a mask, thereby conducting impurity doping of first and second conduction types in a self-aligned fashion.
Claim 6
Independent Claim
125 words
A method of impurity doping into a silicon semiconductor, which comprises irradiating energy rays to a region of a hydrogen terminated silicon surface to remove hydrogen atom layers terminating the silicon surface thereby forming a patterned first silicon surface region not terminated with hydrogen, selectively adsorbing impurities of a first conduction type to the patterned first silicon surface region to form an impurity adsorption layer of the first conduction type, then removing residual hydrogen atom layers to form a second silicon surface region, and selectively adsorbing impurities of a second conduction type to the second silicon surface region using said impurity adsorption layer of the first conduction type as a mask, thereby conducting impurity doping of first and second conduction types in a self-aligned fashion.
Claim 7
Independent Claim
108 words
A method of impurity doping into a silicon semiconductor, which comprises irradiating energy rays to a region of a silicon surface covered with impurity atoms of a first conduction type, said impurity atoms of the first conduction type not being hydrogen, to remove the impurity atoms of the first conduction type thereby forming a silicon surface region exposed in a patterned configuration, and selectively adsorbing impurities of a second conduction type to the silicon surface region using the region covered with the impurity atoms of the first conduction type as a mask, thereby conducting impurity doping of the first and the second conduction types in a self-aligned fashion.
Claim 8
Independent Claim
108 words
A method of impurity doping into a silicon semiconductor, which comprises irradiating energy rays to a region of a silicon surface covered with impurity atoms of a first conduction type, said impurity atoms of the first conduction type not being hydrogen, to remove the impurity atoms of the first conduction type thereby forming a silicon surface region exposed in a patterned configuration, and selectively adsorbing impurities of a second conduction type to the silicon surface region using the region covered with the impurity atoms of the first conduction type as a mask, thereby conducting impurity doping of the first and the second conduction types in a self-aligned fashion.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
47 words
The method of impurity doping into a silicon semiconductor as defined in claim 4, wherein impurity doping is applied by selectively adsorbing the impurities of the second conduction type and then covering the surface with a silicon film or an oxide film within an identical processing apparatus.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
70 words
The method of impurity doping into a silicon semiconductor as defined in claim 4, wherein the impurities of the first conduction type are selected from the group consisting of Sb, As, P, SbH 3 , AsH 3 and PH 3 , and the impurities of the second conduction type are selected from the group consisting of HBO 2 , B 2 O 3 , and B 2 H 6 .
Claim 11
Independent Claim
121 words
A method of impurity doping into a silicon semiconductor, which comprises terminating a silicon surface with hydrogen atoms, placing the same in an ultra-high vacuum or inert gas atmosphere, irradiating UV-rays to the silicon surface by way of a reticle having at least three regions with different UV-ray transmission coefficients, thereby desorbing the hydrogen atoms in at least three silicon surface regions corresponding respectively to the at least three different UV-ray transmission coefficients, and adsorbing impurities by the at least three silicon surface regions using the resultant residual hydrogen as a selection mask for impurity atoms or molecules containing the impurity atoms, thereby applying impurity doping at a different concentration level for each of the at least three silicon surface regions.
Claim 12
Independent Claim
121 words
A method of impurity doping into a silicon semiconductor, which comprises terminating a silicon surface with hydrogen atoms, placing the same in an ultra-high vacuum or inert gas atmosphere, irradiating UV-rays to the silicon surface by way of a reticle having at least three regions with different UV-ray transmission coefficients, thereby desorbing the hydrogen atoms in at least three silicon surface regions corresponding respectively to the at least three different UV-ray transmission coefficients, and adsorbing impurities by the at least three silicon surface regions using the resultant residual hydrogen as a selection mask for impurity atoms or molecules containing the impurity atoms, thereby applying impurity doping at a different concentration level for each of the at least three silicon surface regions.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
32 words
The method of impurity doping into a silicon semiconductor as defined in claim 1, wherein said energy rays are selected from the group consisting of excimer laser beams, UV-rays and electron beams.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
37 words
The method of impurity doping into a silicon semiconductor as defined in claim 1, wherein, during said selectively adsorbing impurities, a silicon substrate, providing the silicon surface, is at a temperature in a range of 350°-500° C.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
31 words
The method of impurity doping into a silicon semiconductor as defined in claim 4, wherein said removing the residual hydrogen atom layers is performed at a substrate temperature of 600°-700° C.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
26 words
The method of impurity doping into a silicon semiconductor as defined in claim 4, wherein said silicon surface is a surface of a polycrystalline silicon film.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
55 words
The method of impurity doping into a silicon semiconductor as defined in claim 1, wherein said first conduction type is n-type, the impurity adsorption layer of the first conduction type being an n-type impurity adsorption layer, and the second conduction type is p-type, to thereby conduct n-type and p-type impurity doping in a self-aligned fashion.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
20 words
The method of impurity doping into a silicon semiconductor as defined in claim 13, wherein the n-type impurities contain antimony.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
30 words
The method of impurity doping into a silicon semiconductor as defined in claim 13, wherein the n-type impurities are selected from the group consisting of Sb and SbH 3 .
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
21 words
The method of impurity doping into a silicon semiconductor as defined in claim 1, wherein the impurities adsorbed selectively contain antimony.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
31 words
The method of impurity doping into a silicon semiconductor as defined in claim 1, wherein the impurities adsorbed selectively are selected from the group consisting of Sb and SbH 3 .
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