2-2.Wafer Thickness, Center Point
Thin (thickness depends on wafer diameter, but is typically less than 1mm),circular slice of single-crystal semiconductor material cut from the ingot of single crystal semiconductor; used in manufacturing of semiconductor devices and integrated circuits; wafer diameters may range from 5mm to 300mm.
Measured with ANSI certied non-contact tools at the center of each individual wafer.
2-7.Primary Flat Orientation The at of the longest length on the wafer, oriented such that the chord is parallel with a specied low index crystal plane. Measured on one wafer per ingot using Laue back-reection technique with manual angle measurement.
5-5-1 Choice of Polytype for Devices As discussed in Section 4, 4H- and 6H-SiC are the far superior forms of semiconductor device quality SiC commercially available in mass-produced wafer form. Therefore, only 4H- and 6H-SiC device processing methods will be explicitly considered in the rest [...]
2-20.Linear Crystallographic Defects Crystalline solids exhibit a periodic crystal structure. The positions of atoms or molecules occur on repeating fixed distances, determined by the unit cell parameters. However, the arrangement of atom or molecules in most crystalline materials is not perfect. The regular patterns are [...]
5-6-4-1 SiC High-Power Rectifiers The high-power diode rectifier is a critical building block of power conversion circuits. Recent reviews of experimental SiC rectifier results are given in References 3, 134, 172, 180, and 181. Most important SiC diode rectifier device design trade-offs roughly parallel well-known [...]
2-1.Wafer Diameter The linear distance across the surface of a circular slice which contains the slice center and excludes any flats or other peripheral fiduciary areas. Standard silicon wafer diameters are: 25.4mm (1″), 50.4mm (2″), 76.2mm (3″), 100mm (4″), 125mm(5″), 150mm (6″), 200mm (8″), and [...]
2-5.Misorientation In wafers cut intentionally “off orientation”, the angle between the projection of the normal vector to the wafers surface onto a {0001} plane and the projection on that plane of the nearest <11-20> direction.
