Process for the manufacture of thin films of semiconductor material
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1. A process for the manufacture of a thin film made of a semiconductor material, comprising the following steps:
- implanting ions (12) through a surface (14) of a wafer (10) made of semi-conducting material, said surface being substantially parallel to a crystallographic plane in the semiconductor, to create a cleavage layer containing gaseous microblisters (16) in the wafer, which delimits surface layer (18) within the layer (10), the energy of the ions being such that the ion penetration depth exceeds a fixed minimum depth to obtain a thin film containing said surface layer, which is sufficiently rigid so that the subsequent heat treatment releases it; and
heat treating the wafer at a temperature sufficiently high to cause separation of the surface layer (18) from the rest of the wafer, because of the effect of crystalline rearrangement and because of the pressure effect of the gaseous microblisters (16), along the layer of microblisters, wherein at least one stiffening layer (22) made of a material having a stiffness exceeding the stiffness of the material of the wafer (10), is formed on said surface (14) of the wafer before the ion implantation step, the layer of thickness and the implantation energy being such that ions pass through the stiffening layer, whereby the surface layer and the stiffening layer form the thin film, and the material of said stiffening layer (22) having an atomic number Z of ≦
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Abstract
The process includes the following steps: implantation of ions (12) in a semi-conducting wafer (10), to create a cleavage layer of gaseous microblisters (16) in the wafer, heat treatment of the wafer, in order to cause separation of a surface layer (18) from the rest of the wafer, along the layer of microblisters. According to the invention, the implantation is carried out at a depth equal to or greater than a given minimum depth so that the thin film obtained is rigid, and so that the heat treatment can release it.
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1. A process for the manufacture of a thin film made of a semiconductor material, comprising the following steps:
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implanting ions (12) through a surface (14) of a wafer (10) made of semi-conducting material, said surface being substantially parallel to a crystallographic plane in the semiconductor, to create a cleavage layer containing gaseous microblisters (16) in the wafer, which delimits surface layer (18) within the layer (10), the energy of the ions being such that the ion penetration depth exceeds a fixed minimum depth to obtain a thin film containing said surface layer, which is sufficiently rigid so that the subsequent heat treatment releases it; and heat treating the wafer at a temperature sufficiently high to cause separation of the surface layer (18) from the rest of the wafer, because of the effect of crystalline rearrangement and because of the pressure effect of the gaseous microblisters (16), along the layer of microblisters, wherein at least one stiffening layer (22) made of a material having a stiffness exceeding the stiffness of the material of the wafer (10), is formed on said surface (14) of the wafer before the ion implantation step, the layer of thickness and the implantation energy being such that ions pass through the stiffening layer, whereby the surface layer and the stiffening layer form the thin film, and the material of said stiffening layer (22) having an atomic number Z of ≦
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