Thermal Oxide Wafer Research Grade

Thermal Oxide Wafer Research Grade

PAM XIAMEN offers Thermal Oxide Wafer in 2” ~ 4″ with research grade. Silicon oxide wafer from PAM-XIAMEN is a silicon dioxide film grown on the surface of the silicon wafer by means of oxygen or water vapor under high temperature (800℃~1150℃) conditions through atmospheric furnace tube equipment through the use of thermal oxidation process. The processing thickness ranges from 50 nanometers to 2 microns, the process temperature is as high as 1100℃, and the growth methods for thermal oxide wafer are divided into wet oxygen and dry oxygen.

Thermal Oxide Wafer

1. Thermal Oxide SiO2 Film on Silicon Wafer Specifications

No. Size (inch) Type Orientation Thickness(um) SiO2 (nm)  Resistivity Range (ohm-cm) Surface Processed
PAM-088 6 / 100 625±25 2um 0.005-100 1 side polished, 2 sides oxidation
PAM-091 3 P 100 375±25 282nm 0-0.005 1 side polished, 2 sides oxidation
PAM-093 4 FZ 100 525±20 1um 100-300 1 side polished, 2 sides oxidation
PAM-095 6 P 100 450±15 300nm 5000-10000 2 sides polished, 2 sides oxidation
PAM-0100 8 P 100 675±25 500nm 0.5-100 1 side polished, 2 sides oxidation
PAM-0101 8 P 100 725±25 300nm 1-100 1 side polished, 2 sides oxidation
PAM-0103 3 N 100 380±20 100nm 1-20 1 side polished, 2 sides oxidation
PAM-0104 4 P 100 525±25 270-280nm 0.01-0.02 1 side polished, 2 sides oxidation
PAM-0107 4 P 111 525±15 25nm 0.006-0.0075 1 side polished, 2 sides oxidation
PAM-0111 8 / / 700±25 200-500nm 0.005-100 1 side polished, 2 sides oxidation
PAM-0112 8 P 100 720±25 100-500nm 0.005-100 1 side polished, 2 sides oxidation
PAM-0114 2 N 111 400±15 290nm 0.01-0.02 1 side polished, 2 sides oxidation
PAM-0116 4 P 100 525±25 300nm 0.01-0.09 1 side polished, 1 side oxidation
PAM-0118 4 N 100 525±20 305±5nm 0.01-0.02 1 side polished, 1 side oxidation
PAM-0119 3 N 100 381±20 300nm 0-0.005 1 side polished, 2 sides oxidation (dry oxygen)
PAM-0122 4 N 100 450±25 285nm 0.01-0.02 1 side polished, 2 sides oxidation
PAM-0127 3 P 100 380±20 90nm 1-10 1 side polished, 2 sides oxidation
PAM-0130 4 P 100 525±25 300nm 0.001-0.005 1 side polished, 1 side oxidation (dry oxygen)
PAM-0131 5 N 100 525±15 280nm 0-0.005 1 side polished, 2 sides oxidation
PAM-0132 5 N 100 525±25 280nm 0.001-0.005 1 side polished, 2 sides oxidation
PAM-0134 4 N 100 450±25 300±5nm 0.01-0.02 1 side polished, 1 side oxidation (dry oxygen)

 

2. Mechanism of Thermal Silicon Oxide Wafer

Dry oxygen oxidation for silicon wafer is that silicon reacts with oxygen, and the oxide layer continuously moves toward the base layer. Dry oxidation needs to be carried out at a temperature of 850 to 1200°C, with a low growth rate. When a high-quality, ultra-thin silicon oxide layer is required, dry oxidation is the preferred solution compared to wet oxidation.

Wet oxygen oxidation uses water vapor to enter the furnace tube under high temperature conditions to form an oxide layer. The compactness of wet oxygen oxidation is slightly worse than that of dry oxygen oxidation, but compared with dry oxygen oxidation, it has advantages with a higher growth rate and is suitable for the growth of thin films above 500 nm.

Atmospheric oxidation furnace tube adopts Czech horizontal furnace tube, which has the characteristics of high process stability, good film uniformity and superior particle control. Each silicon oxide furnace tube can process 50 pieces, with excellent uniformity within and between pieces.

3. Main Applications of Thermal Oxide Wafer

The thermal oxide layer is an excellent dielectric layer as an insulator. In many silicon-based devices, the thermal oxide layer plays an important role as a doping stop layer and surface dielectric. There are many wet / dry thermal oxide wafer applications:

Ion implantation barrier layer: Silica plays a role in masking the diffusion of impurities. In the manufacture of integrated circuits, the diffusion of several commonly used impurities such as boron, phosphorus, and arsenic in the silicon dioxide wafer is much slower than their diffusion in silicon. Therefore, when fabricating various regions of semiconductor devices, the most commonly used method is to first grow a layer of oxide film on the surface of the silicon wafer. After photolithography and development, the oxide film on the surface of the doped area is etched away to form a doped window. Finally, the impurities are selectively injected into the corresponding area through the window.

Gate oxide layer: In the manufacturing process of MOS/CMOS integrated circuits, SiO2 is usually used as the insulating gate dielectric of the MOS transistor, that is, the gate oxide layer.

Medium isolation: The isolation methods in integrated circuit production include PN junction isolation and dielectric isolation. One of the two methods, the SiO2 oxide film, that is thermal oxide silicon wafer, is usually selected for dielectric isolation. For example, the field oxygen in the CMOS process (used to isolate PMOS and NMOS transistors) is the SiO2 film, which is used to isolate the active area of the PMOS tube and the NMOS tube.

Insulating medium: Silicon dioxide wafer is a good insulator, so for multilayer metal wiring structures, it is used as an insulating medium between the upper and lower layers of metal to prevent short circuits between metals.

Compared with the oxide layer deposited by CVD, the thermal oxide wafer growth have higher uniformity, better density and higher dielectric strength, and the quality of thermal oxide wafers is more excellent.

For more information, please contact us email at victorchan@powerwaywafer.com and powerwaymaterial@gmail.com.

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