Laser doping device and semiconductor device manufacturing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10475650-B2
Application number	US-201816055287-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 6, 2018
Priority date	Mar 24, 2016
Publication date	Nov 12, 2019
Grant date	Nov 12, 2019

Abstract

A laser doping device includes: a solution supply system configured to supply a solution containing dopant to a doping region; a pulse laser system configured to output pulse laser light including a plurality of pulses, the pulse laser light transmitting through the solution; a first control unit configured to control a number of pulses of the pulse laser light for allowing the doping region to be irradiated, and to control a fluence of the pulse laser light in the doping region; and a second control unit configured to control a flow velocity of the solution so as to move bubbles, from the doping region, occurring in the solution every time of irradiation with the pulse.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A laser doping device for doping polysilicon on a substrate with dopant, comprising:
a solution supply system configured to supply a solution containing dopant to a doping region to be subjected to doping;
a pulse laser system configured to output pulse laser light including a plurality of pulses, the pulse laser light transmitting through the solution and melting polysilicon in the doping region by allowing the doping region to be irradiated;
an optical system configured to guide the pulse laser light output from the pulse laser system, to the doping region;
a first control unit configured to control a number of pulses of the pulse laser light for allowing the doping region to be irradiated, and to control a fluence of the pulse laser light in the doping region; and
a second control unit configured to control a flow velocity of the solution so as to move bubbles, from the doping region, occurring in the solution every time of irradiation with the pulse.

2. The laser doping device according to claim 1 , wherein when the fluence per pulse is defined as FL, the fluence FL has a range of 330mJ/cm 2 ≤FL≤430 mJ/cm 2 .

3. The laser doping device according to claim 1 , wherein when the number of pulses is defined as N, the number of pulses N has a range of 2≤N≤20.

4. The laser doping device according to claim 1 , wherein
when a beam width of the pulse laser light allowing the doping region to be irradiated in a direction in which the solution including the dopant flows is defined as W, and a repetition frequency that is the number of pulses per unit time in the pulse laser light is defined as PF,
the flow velocity V with which the dopant flows has a range W×PF≤V≤20 m/s.

5. The laser doping device according to claim 1 , wherein the pulse laser light has a central wavelength ranging from 193 to 355 nm.

6. The laser doping device according to claim 1 , wherein the solution is any of phosphoric acid aqueous solution, boric acid solution, and aluminum chloride aqueous solution.

7. The laser doping device according to claim 1 , wherein
the solution supply system includes a supply pump configured to supply the solution to the doping region, and
the supply pump causes flow of the solution including the dopant, in the doping region.

8. The laser doping device according to claim 1 , wherein the optical system guides the pulse laser light to a predetermined region including the doping region.

9. The laser doping device according to claim 8 , wherein
the predetermined region is formed to be a line on the substrate, and
the laser doping device further comprises a stage configured to move the substrate in a direction of the line of the predetermined region.

10. The laser doping device according to claim 9 , wherein the optical system converts the pulse laser light into a rectangular beam having a rectangular section orthogonal to an optical axis, and guides the converted rectangular beam to the predetermined region.

11. The laser doping device according to claim 9 , wherein the optical system converts the pulse laser light into an array beam having a plurality of spot beams arranged in this array beam, and guides the converted array beam to the predetermined region.

12. The laser doping device according to claim 8 , further comprising a cleaning device configured to clean the doping region after the doping region is irradiated with the pulse laser light.

Assignees

• Univ Kyushu Nat Univ Corp
• Gigaphoton Inc

Inventors

• Ikenoue Hiroshi
• Suwa Akira
• Wakabayashi Osamu

Classifications

• H10P34/42

  with electromagnetic radiation, e.g. laser annealing (laser cutting H10P54/20) · CPC title

• H10P14/43

  Chemical deposition, e.g. chemical vapour deposition [CVD] · CPC title

• H10P32/16 Primary

  between a solid phase and a liquid phase · CPC title

• H01S5/06

  Arrangements for controlling the laser output parameters, e.g. by operating on the active medium · CPC title

• B23K26/354

  by melting · CPC title