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Nuclear Instruments and.Methods in Physics Research B21 (1987) 280-284 North-Holland. Amsterdam
NEW ION IMPLANTATION SYSTEM WITH ADVANCED PROCESS CAPABILITIES M.T. W A U K Applied Materials Implant Division, Horsham, West Sussex, England RHI3 5PY
A new ion implantation system has been developed with several significant IC wafer processing improvements resulting from innovations in beam optics, target system, wafer handling, and control electronics design. This paper will concentrate on the process results that have been established thus far with this new system. Implanted wafers are subjected to temperatures of less than approximately 40 ° C even with beams of 30 mA at 120 keV. This significantly reduces residual lattice damage due to partial annealing, and also significantly reduces photoresist blistering and flow. Wafers are completely flat and planar during implant, providing a constant implant angle and reduced uniformity and depth profile variations due to channeling, as well as providing more uniform wafer temperature. Low ion beam density and a high speed wafer scanning system provides reduced charging of electrically floating semiconductor structures. Data will be presented on implant uniformity, wafer temperature and charging.
I. Introduction
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The process design objectives of this system development were to provide improved characteristics of wafer temperature control for photoresist survival and low lattice damage, improved uniformity of implanteddose, improved uniformity of depth of channeling, lower wafer charging, low cross-contamination and other contamination, and very low particulates, over a wide dose range down to 1 × 1011/cm2. A second objective was to provide increased throughput with higher beam currents. The first issue to be addressed was that of implantation of devices with beam currents much higher than previously used. It is important to note that much of the published ion implantation work has been done under conditions of poor wafer cooling, and any effect due purely to high current is yet to be revealed. While the beam current is high in this work, the ion current density is actually lower than other systems owing to the large (nominal 6 × 6 cross section) area beam.
2. System description The system uses a fixed ion beam with a unique design mechanically scanned spinning wheel (patent pending). Fig. 1 shows a diagram of the system. Fig. 2 shows a photo of the implantation wheel for 150 mm wafers. A single row of wafers are held individually on water-cooled heat sinks that are tilted out of the plane of the wheel 14 °. This gives a component of centrifugal force normal to the wafer sufficient to hold it against the heat sink without the need for mechanical clamps. The wheel is relatively large so as to provide greatly 0168-583X/87/$03.50 © Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (North-Holland Physics Publishing Division)
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3. Implant angle variation, channeling, and uniformity It is well known that the incident angle of beam to wafer is set to some angle (for instance, 7 o ) in order to reduce channeling. Wafer azimuth control is also effective in reducing channeling, or more specifically the variation in channeling over the wafer [1]. In modem implanters there are several sources of variations over the wafer in beam incident angle perpendicular to the
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Numerical methods were used based on independent measurements in vacuum of heat sink static thermal resistance. Each point on a wafer sees the beam in pulse bursts of a duration that depends on slow-scan speed. The temperature rises during each burst towards a steady-state value with a time constant approximately given by C,, D R t (approximately 5 s), where C~ is the wafer specific heat, D is the wafer thickness, and R t is the thermal resistance. For the case of zero slow scan speed (U0), steady-state maximum temperature rise can be written as: A T:
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6. Charging For design reasons similar to those explained above for temperature control (especially in regard to beam width and wheel radius) plus high rate, the charging behavior of this system is similarly favorable. Fig. 9 shows data collected over a period of time from customer tests comparing the maximum current that can be used in the Precision Implant 9000 system to achieve the customer's standard yields, with the current they use in their present systems to achieve the same results. Charging damage of floating-gate structures appears to be equivalent at approximately three to six times higher current in this system.
charging. Data collected to date supports the conclusion that the design was successful in achieving significant improvements in these areas. This paper covers a few aspects of wide range, far reaching, professional, and personally rewarding five year project to which many people at Applied Materials contributed. The author is greatly indebted to Mr. Len Robinson, with whom the target system wafer cooling was designed; Dr. Steve Moffatt, who carried out much of the early process feasibility work and prototype implantation evaluations; Dr. Babak Adibi, who did the more recent wafer uniformity measurements shown in this paper; and Dr. Sarko Cherekjian, who provided the charging, RBS and temperature test data.
7. Summary The design criteria of this system development effort were specifically chosen to address and solve major implantation issues o wafer temperature control, implant angle variation, channeling, dose uniformity, and
Reference
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