Invited Paper Photochemical Cleaning And Epitaxy Of Si

Abstract
Photochemical effect on silicon surface cleaning and epitaxial film growth was investigated. Under ultraviolet light irradiation, the surface native oxide on the silicon substrate was removed at 730°C. An epitaxial film with high crystal quality was grown on the silicon substrate at a temperature as low as 540°C after thermal surface cleaning at980°C. The ultraviolet light irradiation seemed to be effective for gas-phase dissociation and surface reaction. Auto-doping was suppressed by using low temperature epitaxial growth and an almost ideal step junction was fabricated. A bipolar transistor having 65 nm epitaxially grown base layer was successfully operated.

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