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Stacking fault reduction in Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) islands produced by Selective Epitaxial Growth (SEG) of Silicon using a thermally nitrided SiO2 field insulator

✍ Scribed by Gerold W. Neudeck; Keith D. Merritt; Jack P. Denton


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
420 KB
Volume
36
Category
Article
ISSN
0167-9317

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✦ Synopsis


A method to fabricate silicon-on-insulator (SOI) device sized islands, using Epitaxiai Lateral Overgrowth (ELO) from the Selective Epitaxial Growth (SEG) of Silicon, has =96.3% stacking fault-free SO1 islands when SiO2 was used as the field insulator. When a nitrided thermal SiO 2 was used =99% of the small islands were defect-free. Islands with rounded comers and nitrided oxide had stacking fault defects of less than 500/cm 2.