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Method of producing a thin layer of semiconductor material

  • US 20010007789A1
  • Filed: 02/06/2001
  • Published: 07/12/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/15/1996
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of producing a thin layer of semiconductor material from a wafer of said material having a flat face, including an ion implantation step consisting of bombarding said flat face with ions chosen from among the ions of rare gases or of hydrogen, at a specific temperature and a specific dose in order to create, in a plane called a reference plane and situated at a depth proximate to the mean depth of penetration of the ions, microcavities, the method also including a subsequent thermal treatment step at a temperature sufficient to achieve separation of the wafer into two parts, across the reference plane, the part situated on the side of the flat face constituting the thin layer, in which the ion implantation step is carried out with an ion dose between a minimum dose and a maximum dose, the minimum dose being that from which there will be sufficient creation of microcavities to obtain the embrittlement of the wafer along the reference plane, the maximum dose, or critical dose being that above which, during the thermal treatment, there is separation of the wafer, a separation step of the wafer into two parts, across the reference plane, is provided after or during the thermal treatment step, this separation step comprising the application of mechanical Forces between the two parts of the wafer.

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