Evening Panel Session (November 16, 1983) Soi Technologies for Integrated Circuits

1983 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. C. Fan ◽  
Y. Akasaka ◽  
G. W. Cullen ◽  
J. F. Gibbons ◽  
C. Hill ◽  
...  

There are a number of viable approaches to silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technologies, and the panel session has assembled a number of leaders in the SOI community for their views of “SOI Technologies for Integrated Circuits.” Their viewpoints, shown in tabulated form, were presented for general discussion in the session which was attended by about 150 people. Although SOI technologies are useful for many applications, most of the panelists agreed that the most appropriate near-term applications are for high-speed, high-density integrated circuits. Various SOI technologies, including silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), are currently in the running, but the majority of the panelists felt that for SOI technologies to be widely adopted, SOI must be available as a proven manufactured product within two to three years.

Author(s):  
C. O. Jung ◽  
S. J. Krause ◽  
S.R. Wilson

Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) structures have excellent potential for future use in radiation hardened and high speed integrated circuits. For device fabrication in SOI material a high quality superficial Si layer above a buried oxide layer is required. Recently, Celler et al. reported that post-implantation annealing of oxygen implanted SOI at very high temperatures would eliminate virtually all defects and precipiates in the superficial Si layer. In this work we are reporting on the effect of three different post implantation annealing cycles on the structure of oxygen implanted SOI samples which were implanted under the same conditions.


Author(s):  
S. J. Krause ◽  
C. O. Jung ◽  
S.R. Wilson

Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) structure by high dose oxygen implantation (SIMOX) has excellent potential for use in radiation hardened and high speed integrated circuits. Device fabrication in SIMOX requires a high quality superficial Si layer above the buried oxide layer. Previously we reported on the effect of heater temperature, background doping, and annealing cycle on precipitate size, density, and location in the superficial Si layer. Precipitates were not eliminated with our processing conditions, but various authors have recently reported that high temperature annealing of SIMOX, from 1250°C to 1405°C, eliminates virtually all precipitates in the superficial Si layer. However, in those studies there were significant differences in implantation energy and dose and also annealing time and temperature. Here we are reporting on the effect of annealing time and temperature on the formation and changes in precipitates.


1988 ◽  
Vol 116 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.S. Yang ◽  
A. S. Yue

The monolithic integration of GaAs and Si devices is highly attractive for very high speed LSI and optoelectronic integrated circuits. To accomplish this, the epitaxial growth of GaAs films on Si substrates has been successfully realized. However, in the GaAs/Si structure, the conductive nature of the silicon substrate results in a severe transmission line loss [1,2]. To help solve this problem, we suggest to grow GaAs film on SOI (silicon on insulator) substrate for microwave device application. This GaAs/SOI structure will have low transmission line loss and excellent radiation hardness. In this paper, we present some cross-section SEM and TEM data and discuss the transmission line loss and radiation hardness of this multilayered structure.


MRS Bulletin ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 23 (12) ◽  
pp. 13-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre Colinge ◽  
Robert W. Bower

Silicon-on-lnsulator (SOI) technology has been around since the 1960s when so-called silicon on sapphire (SOS) was first introduced. Silicon on sapphire has been used for many years for the fabrication of spaceborne and high-speed integrated circuits. It is still used in the fabrication of radio-frequency circuits.More recent SOI materials involve only silicon and silicon dioxide—the two most common materials used in the fabrication of integrated circuits—as opposed to SOS, which requires the use of an alumina substrate.Silicon-on-insulator technology has been used for a long time in niche applications such as spacecraft electronics and devices operating in a hightemperature or radiative environment. Recently however much attention has been paid to SOI technology because it is extremely suitable for the fabrication of low-voltage integrated circuits. Such circuits are in high demand for all kinds of portable systems, ranging from cellular phones to laptop computers. In August of 1998, IBM, Sharp, and other semiconductor manufacturers announced the development of SOI chips for high-speed computing and telecommunication con-sumer electronics. Most major semiconductor companies are putting considerable effort into SOI-circuit development for mainstream low-power applications.


Author(s):  
E.D. Wolf

Most microelectronics devices and circuits operate faster, consume less power, execute more functions and cost less per circuit function when the feature-sizes internal to the devices and circuits are made smaller. This is part of the stimulus for the Very High-Speed Integrated Circuits (VHSIC) program. There is also a need for smaller, more sensitive sensors in a wide range of disciplines that includes electrochemistry, neurophysiology and ultra-high pressure solid state research. There is often fundamental new science (and sometimes new technology) to be revealed (and used) when a basic parameter such as size is extended to new dimensions, as is evident at the two extremes of smallness and largeness, high energy particle physics and cosmology, respectively. However, there is also a very important intermediate domain of size that spans from the diameter of a small cluster of atoms up to near one micrometer which may also have just as profound effects on society as “big” physics.


Author(s):  
N. David Theodore ◽  
Donald Y.C Lie ◽  
J. H. Song ◽  
Peter Crozier

SiGe is being extensively investigated for use in heterojunction bipolar-transistors (HBT) and high-speed integrated circuits. The material offers adjustable bandgaps, improved carrier mobilities over Si homostructures, and compatibility with Si-based integrated-circuit manufacturing. SiGe HBT performance can be improved by increasing the base-doping or by widening the base link-region by ion implantation. A problem that arises however is that implantation can enhance strain-relaxation of SiGe/Si.Furthermore, once misfit or threading dislocations result, the defects can give rise to recombination-generation in depletion regions of semiconductor devices. It is of relevance therefore to study the damage and anneal behavior of implanted SiGe layers. The present study investigates the microstructural behavior of phosphorus implanted pseudomorphic metastable Si0.88Ge0.12 films on silicon, exposed to various anneals.Metastable pseudomorphic Si0.88Ge0.12 films were grown ~265 nm thick on a silicon wafer by molecular-beam epitaxy. Pieces of this wafer were then implanted at room temperature with 100 keV phosphorus ions to a dose of 1.5×1015 cm-2.


2007 ◽  
Vol 127 (10) ◽  
pp. 1033-1042
Author(s):  
Tamio Okutani ◽  
Nobuyuki Nakamura ◽  
Hisato Araki ◽  
Shouji Irie ◽  
Hiroki Osa ◽  
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