Precipitates caused by prolonged high-temperature annealing in floating zone silicon wafer grown from Czochralski single-crystal rod

Autor: Hitoshi Habuka, Haruo Nakazawa, Masaaki Ogino, Yoshikazu Takahashi, Hideaki Teranishi
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing. 16:923-927
ISSN: 1369-8001
DOI: 10.1016/j.mssp.2013.01.020
Popis: The behavior of precipitates in a floating zone silicon crystal produced from a Czochralski single-crystal ingot has been studied. Large precipitates of α-Si 3 N 4 crystal, having a dimension of about 2 μm, were formed at the mid-depth in the wafer by annealing at a high temperature in an ambient N 2 (70%)+O 2 (30%) atmosphere. The number of precipitates detected by cross-sectional X-ray topography increased with increasing annealing time. Because preannealing accompanying silicon oxidation in an ambient Ar+O 2 atmosphere prevented the precipitates formation, interstitial silicon is considered to eliminate the origin of precipitate.
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