SIMOX SOI structures are fabricated under various conditions and characterized electrically and physically to establish a characterization technology which is a key to the fabrication of high quality SIMOX SOI. The first subject of this work is to inv...
SIMOX SOI structures are fabricated under various conditions and characterized electrically and physically to establish a characterization technology which is a key to the fabrication of high quality SIMOX SOI. The first subject of this work is to investigate the annealing condition dependence of the characteristics of SIMOX SOI. SOI structures are fabricated under various annealing conditions. The microstructure and the behavior of oxygen atoms during annealing process are investigated through AES/TEM analysis. The crystalline quality of the structures is examined through transmission electron diffraction experiments. The electrical properties are measured by SRP and MOS C-V technique. Reduction of oxygen concentration in the SOI layer is dominated by the behavior of oxygen precipitates. The electrical properties of the structures are influenced by oxygen precipitates which initiate to desolve at the annealing temperature of 1250℃. The electrical properties of the structure are improved with the dissolution of oxygen precipitates. Dielectric and interface properties are also improved after annealing at high temperature. The second subject of the work is the examination of possibility of oxygen does reduction required for SIMOX fabrication. Characteristics of the SIMOX SOI formed by subcritical oxygen dose is investigated using physical methods such as AES, XPS and TEM as well as electrical methods such as SRP and C-V. Although oxygen dose is 0.4×10^(18)/㎠ which corresponds to below one third of critical dose, a continuous buried oxide layer can be obtained while no oxygen precipitates and crystal defects are found in the SOI layer. In the case of the dose of 0.8×10^(18)/㎠, there are numerous Si precipitates in the buried oxide layer. But dielectric properties of the buried oxide layer is fairly good. The third subject is electrical characterization of SOI structures. A method for characterization of both SOI/buried oxide and buried oxide/substrate interfaces is suggested. The C-V analysis of SIS capacitors is based upon conventional MOS C-V theory. SIS capacitors are fabricated using SIMOX SOI wafers. Complete depletion of the SOI layer is prevented by increasing either SOI layer thickness through epitaxial growth or doping concentration of the layer. High and low frequency C-V measurements are conducted using conventional method. Parameters such as buried oxide thickness, doping concentration, interface trap density are determined by the measurements.