1982年
1981
NTTの干川らは、当時のデバイスグレードとされる1016/p3以下では、微小欠陥の密度は炭素濃度に依存しないことを明らかにした。
Improvement in CZ Silicon Wafer by Reducing Oxygen Impurity
Keigo Hoshikawa, Hiroki Kohda and Kenji Ikuta
Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Volume 20, Number S1
DOI 10.7567/JJAPS.20S1.241
Abstract
Effects of oxygen and carbon impurities and various annealings on thermally induced defects and on MOS device performance were investigated by using selected silicon wafers with various oxygen and/or carbon concentrations and with distinct thermal history in growth process. It was found that the thermally induced defects were strongly dependent on oxygen concentration, while carbon concentration hardly affected on them. No thermally induced defects were detected after being annealed at 1000°C for 12 hours in wafers with less than 4×1017 atoms・cm-3 oxgen concentration. Degradation in device characteristics was caused by thermally induced defects due to oxygen impurity. Oxygen reduction in CZ silicon wafer was a promising method to improve MOS device performances.
