Silicon carbide substrate vertical structure film electronic device and manufacturing method thereofTechnical Field
The invention relates to the field of electronic devices, in particular to a thin film electronic device with a vertical structure of a silicon carbide substrate and a manufacturing method thereof.
Background
Silicon carbide is a wide bandgap semiconductor material, and compared with the semiconductor material silicon with the widest application range, the silicon carbide has the advantages of good heat conduction, high working temperature, high current density, high breakdown electric field strength, high working frequency, low power consumption under large current and the like. However, the high price of silicon carbide substrates over other semiconductor materials limits the widespread use of silicon carbide materials. At present, electronic devices made of silicon carbide materials are mainly based on silicon carbide substrates with a thickness of 0.43mm, and the price of the substrates can be as high as 1/3 of device manufacturing cost. If the thickness of the silicon carbide substrate can be reduced, the cost of the device can be reduced.
One of the methods for reducing the cost of silicon carbide substrates in device fabrication is to reduce the amount of silicon carbide used, and ion-cut thin film transfer technology is used for fabricating silicon carbide transfer films, which has been developed in the last 90 th century for fabricating thin film substrates, and the most successful application of the ion-cut thin film transfer technology is to fabricate soi (silicon on insulator) substrates. The main steps of manufacturing the SOI substrate are 1, manufacturing a silicon dioxide layer with the thickness of a micron on a donor silicon carbide substrate, and 2, implanting hydrogen ions from the surface of the donor substrate on which the silicon dioxide layer is manufactured, wherein according to the energy of ion implantation, the hydrogen ions generate an ion damage layer in the silicon substrate with a certain depth below the surface of the silicon dioxide. 3. Bonding the donor substrate and the receiver substrate on the surface of the silicon dioxide, 4, annealing the bonded substrate at a certain temperature, and 5, separating the donor substrate at the ion damage layer. The separated acceptor substrate has a silicon film of the donor substrate on the upper surface, and a silicon dioxide insulating layer and an acceptor substrate are arranged below the film, namely the SOI substrate. There remain lattice damage caused by ion implantation on the surface of the just separated silicon thin film, and two methods are generally used to remove the ion damage, one is to polish the thin film on the separated SOI substrate, and the other is to remove the ion damage by heating the SOI substrate to a temperature of 1000 ℃ or higher to redistribute the atoms by utilizing the high mobility of silicon atoms at high temperature. In the ion cutting thin film transfer technology, the bonding quality of a donor substrate and a receiver substrate is the key of success of the ion cutting thin film transfer.
Because the hardness of the silicon carbide material is high, the flatness of the surface of the substrate is extremely difficult to meet the requirement of bonding the donor substrate and the acceptor substrate. Therefore, the ion cutting film transfer technology cannot be widely applied to the manufacturing of the silicon carbide substrate, and a part of ion damage layer is still left on the surface of the silicon carbide film with the device after separation. The lattice distortion in the ion damage layer has great influence on the resistivity of the silicon carbide, and the silicon carbide must be removed in a vertical structure device, a commonly used mechanical polishing method is not easy to operate on a thin film material, and a method for moving atoms by adding high temperature is not suitable for a silicon carbide material.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the technical problem that in the prior art, an ion damage layer remained on a silicon carbide film after a stress layer is separated by ion cutting cannot be mechanically polished or is difficult to remove by high-temperature annealing. It is a practical method for the fabrication of vertical structure thin film devices using silicon carbide substrates.
The technical scheme for solving the technical problems is as follows:
the invention provides a method for manufacturing a vertical-structure thin-film electronic device with a silicon carbide substrate, which comprises the following steps:
s1, performing ion implantation on a silicon carbide substrate, and dividing the silicon carbide substrate into a substrate main body layer, an ion damage layer and a silicon carbide thin film layer positioned on the upper surface of the ion damage layer from bottom to top;
s2, manufacturing an electronic device layer on the silicon carbide film layer;
s3, removing an ion damage layer remained on the surface of the separated silicon carbide film by using an ion thinning or plasma etching method;
and S4, manufacturing an electrode on the surface of the device with the ion damage layer removed.
The invention has the beneficial effects that: the method mainly solves the problem of resistivity increase caused by a stress damage layer remained on the surface of the silicon carbide substrate after ion cutting and separation. The method is used for manufacturing the vertical-structure thin-film electronic device. The defects that the thin film is difficult to machine and the atoms of some semiconductor materials are not strong in mobility at high temperature are avoided. The invention adopts the ion reduction or plasma etching method to remove the ion damage layer remained on the silicon carbide film after separation, and the film substrate after removing the ion damage layer can be used for manufacturing the electrode material on the surface. The invention is also applicable to electronic devices, such as LEDs, with vertical, or non-vertical structures but with the need to lift off the silicon carbide substrate.
Preferably, the ion implantation energy in step S1 is 10KeV to 10 MeV; the ion implantation dose is 1E14-1E22Ion/cm2(ii) a The ions are elements H, He, Ne, Ar, or gas ions composed thereof.
Preferably, the step S2 includes the following steps:
epitaxially growing an n-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer with lower conductivity than the substrate on the silicon carbide film layer,
injecting aluminum ions or boron ions on the surface of the n-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer to form p-type conductive points,
heating the silicon carbide substrate to over 1200 ℃ to activate aluminum ions or boron ions,
and manufacturing a stress leading-in layer on the n-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer, and separating the film from the epitaxial layer.
Preferably, the step S2 includes:
epitaxially growing an n-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer with lower conductivity than the substrate on the silicon carbide film layer,
epitaxially growing a p-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer on the n-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer,
and manufacturing a stress leading-in layer on the p-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer, and separating the film from the epitaxial layer.
Preferably, in step S2, the method for forming the stress introducing layer includes: the metal required for making the stress-inducing layer by sputtering, electroplating, evaporation or combination of at least two of the above is at least one of Ni, Ti, Pd, Zn, Al, Au, Cu, Fe, Sn, Pt, Ir, Mn, Mg, Co, W, Mo and Zr
Preferably, thestep 2 further comprises preparing a semiconductor electronic device on the semiconductor epitaxial layer.
Preferably, the epitaxial method of the n-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer is chemical vapor deposition.
Preferably, the epitaxial methods of the n-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer and the p-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer are chemical vapor deposition.
A vertical-structure thin-film electronic device of a silicon carbide substrate, made by the method of any one of claims 1-7, comprising the following structure in order from bottom to top: an electrode layer, a thin film layer of silicon carbide on the electrode layer, and an electronic device layer on the thin film layer of silicon carbide.
Preferably, the electronic device layer sequentially includes, from bottom to top: the n-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer extending on the silicon carbide thin film layer is formed into a p-type conductive point on the surface of the n-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer by injecting aluminum ions or boron ions, a Schottky barrier layer is formed on the n-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer by sputtering, electroplating, evaporation or a combination of the sputtering, the electroplating and the evaporation, and the stress introduction layer can be used as the Schottky barrier layer.
Preferably, the device further comprises an n-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer which is epitaxially grown on the silicon carbide thin film layer and has lower conductivity than the substrate, a p-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer is further epitaxially grown on the n-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer, and an electrode is manufactured on the p-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer through sputtering, electroplating, evaporation or a combination of the sputtering, the electroplating and the evaporation for manufacturing the Pin type diode, wherein the stress introduction layer can be used as the electrode.
The invention has the beneficial effects that: after ion cutting, the ion damage layer remained on the silicon carbide film after the stress layer separation can not be removed by mechanical polishing or high-temperature annealing. It is a practical method for the fabrication of vertical structure thin film devices using silicon carbide substrates.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the structure of a silicon carbide substrate of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic structural view of an ion implanted silicon carbide substrate of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic structural view of an ion implanted silicon carbide substrate of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of an intermediate structure of the electronic device after step S2-1;
FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of an intermediate structure of the electronic device after step S2-2 of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of an intermediate structure of the electronic device after step S5 according to the present invention;
fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of an epitaxial layer according to the present invention.
Description of the reference numerals
1. The silicon carbide substrate comprises a silicon carbide substrate, 2, a substrate main body layer, 3, an ion damage layer, 4, a silicon carbide thin film layer, 5, an epitaxial layer, 6, a stress introduction layer and 7, electrodes.
Detailed Description
The principles and features of this invention are described below in conjunction with the following drawings, which are set forth by way of illustration only and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention.
The technical scheme for solving the technical problems is as follows:
the invention provides a method for manufacturing a vertical-structure thin-film electronic device with a silicon carbide substrate, which comprises the following steps:
s1, performing ion implantation on a silicon carbide substrate, and dividing the silicon carbide substrate into a substrate main body layer, an ion damage layer and a silicon carbide thin film layer positioned on the upper surface of the ion damage layer from bottom to top;
s2, manufacturing an electronic device layer on the silicon carbide film layer;
s3, removing an ion damage layer remained on the surface of the separated silicon carbide film by using an ion thinning or plasma etching method;
and S4, manufacturing an electrode on the surface of the device with the ion damage layer removed.
Preferably, the ion implantation energy in step S1 is 10KeV to 10 MeV; the ion implantation dose is 1E14-1E22Ion/cm2(ii) a The ions are elements H, He, Ne, Ar, or gas ions composed thereof.
Preferably, the step S2 includes the following steps:
epitaxially growing an n-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer with lower conductivity than the substrate on the silicon carbide film layer,
injecting aluminum ions or boron ions on the surface of the n-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer to form p-type conductive points,
heating the silicon carbide substrate to over 1200 ℃ to activate aluminum ions or boron ions,
the upper electrode of the epitaxial layer is plated with nickel to be used as a Schottky barrier layer and a stress leading-in layer.
Preferably, the step S2 includes the following steps: the epitaxial growth method comprises the steps that a semiconductor epitaxial layer is epitaxially grown on the upper surface of a silicon carbide substrate and comprises afirst epitaxial layer 51, asecond epitaxial layer 52, athird epitaxial layer 53 and afourth epitaxial layer 54 from bottom to top, wherein the first epitaxial layer is AlN, the second epitaxial layer is N-type GaN, the third epitaxial layer is a multilayer quantum well InxGa (1-x) N and barrier GaN, the fourth epitaxial layer is p-type GaN, and x is larger than or equal to 0 and smaller than or equal to 1.
Preferably, thestep 2 further comprises preparing a semiconductor electronic device on the semiconductor epitaxial layer.
Preferably, the method of epitaxy of thesemiconductor epitaxial layer 5 is Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD).
A vertical structure thin-film electronic device of a silicon carbide substrate is manufactured by the method and comprises the following structures from bottom to top in sequence: an electrode layer, a silicon carbide film layer on the electrode layer, and an electronic device layer on the silicon carbide film layer.
Preferably, the electronic device layer sequentially includes, from bottom to top: the Schottky barrier layer comprises an n-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer extending on the silicon carbide thin film layer, p-type conductive points formed on the surface of the n-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer by injecting aluminum ions, and a Schottky barrier layer electroplated on the n-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer.
Preferably, the silicon carbide thin film layer is provided with a semiconductor epitaxial layer, the semiconductor epitaxial layer comprises afirst epitaxial layer 51, asecond epitaxial layer 52, athird epitaxial layer 53 and afourth epitaxial layer 54 from bottom to top, the first epitaxial layer is AlN, the second epitaxial layer is N-type GaN, the third epitaxial layer is a multilayer quantum well InxGa (1-x) N and barrier GaN, the fourth epitaxial layer is p-type GaN, and x is greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 1.
Example 1
As shown in fig. 1 to 5, ion implantation is performed on the upper surface of the n-type conductive silicon carbide semiconductor substrate layer 1, preferably 5 μm, 10 μm; after ion implantation, generating an ion damage layer 3 below the surface of the semiconductor substrate layer 1, so that the n-type conductive silicon carbide semiconductor substrate layer 1 is divided into a substratemain body layer 2, the ion damage layer 3 and a silicon carbide thin film layer 4 positioned on the upper surface of the ion damage layer 3 from bottom to top; then, an n-type siliconcarbide epitaxial layer 5 with lower conductivity than the substrate can be epitaxially grown on the silicon carbide thin film layer 4, aluminum ions are implanted into the surface of the epitaxial layer to form p-type conductive points, and nickel is plated on the epitaxial layer to serve as a Schottky barrier layer 6 (stress leading-in layer). The epitaxial layer and the silicon carbide thin film layer under the epitaxial layer are separated from the silicon carbide substrate, and plasma etching is used to remove the surface of the thin film by about 1 μm so as to ensure the removal of the ion damage layer. An electrode 7 is deposited on the surface of the silicon carbide thin film from which the ion damage layer is removed, as shown in fig. 6.
The application can be used for manufacturing the silicon carbide-based Schottky diode.
Example 2
Performing ion implantation on the upper surface of the silicon carbide substrate layer 1, wherein the ion implantation depth is 0.5-20 μm, preferably 5 μm, 10 μm and 15 μm; after ion implantation, an ion damage layer 3 is generated below the surface of the silicon carbide substrate layer 1, so that the n-type conductive silicon carbide semiconductor substrate layer 1 is divided into a substratemain body layer 2, the ion damage layer 3 and a silicon carbide thin film layer 4 positioned on the upper surface of the ion damage layer 3 from bottom to top; a functional layer (electronic device layer) is prepared on the ion implantation surface of the silicon carbide thin film layer 4, and the electronic device of the present embodiment is asemiconductor epitaxial layer 5 epitaxially grown on the upper surface of the silicon carbide substrate 1, and may also be asemiconductor epitaxial layer 5 epitaxially grown on the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate layer 1 and a semiconductor electronic device prepared on thesemiconductor epitaxial layer 5. The epitaxial method of thesemiconductor epitaxial layer 5 is Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD).
Thesemiconductor epitaxial layer 5 in this embodiment is an epitaxial structure with more than one layer, and the epitaxial layer can change conductivity and conductivity type, such as p-type and n-type, through doping. As shown in fig. 7, thesemiconductor epitaxial layer 5 may include afirst epitaxial layer 51, asecond epitaxial layer 52, athird epitaxial layer 53, and afourth epitaxial layer 54. The first epitaxial layer is AlN, the second epitaxial layer is n-type GaN, and the third epitaxial layer is a multilayer quantum well InxGa(1-x) N and a barrier GaN, the fourth epitaxial layer being p-type GaN, where 0. ltoreq. x.ltoreq.1, this example only given one application of electronic devices, but not limited thereto.
For example, thesemiconductor epitaxial layer 5 may further include a first epitaxial layer, a second epitaxial layer, a third epitaxial layer, a fourth epitaxial layer and a fifth epitaxial layer from bottom to top. The first epitaxial layer is AlN, the second epitaxial layer comprises non-doped u-GaN, the third epitaxial layer is N-GaN, the fourth layer is a multilayer quantum well InxGa (1-x) N and barrier GaN, the fifth epitaxial layer is p-type GaN, and x is larger than or equal to 0 and smaller than or equal to 1.
As shown in fig. 6, astress introducing layer 6 is formed on thesemiconductor epitaxial layer 5, and Ni is used as the metal material for thestress introducing layer 6, and the stress introducing layer also serves as an ohmic electrode. And (3) removing the silicon carbide substrate by using selective plasma etching on the separated epitaxial layer and the silicon carbide film, removing AlN by using plasma etching or ion thinning, and manufacturing an electrode on the n-type GaN to form the LED with the vertical structure.
The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like that fall within the spirit and principle of the present invention are intended to be included therein.