The COREMA system allow for non-destructive resistivity testing of semi-insulating wafers made with materials such as SiC, GaN, GaAs and CdZnTe. The range is 1E5- 1E12 ohm-cm.
3. Worldwide Representation Moritani & Co.,Ltd. 1-4-22 Yaesu Chuo-Ku Tokyo 103-8680 Japan Phone: 81-3-3278-6163 Fax: 81-3-3278-6021 [email_address] www.sales.moritani.co.jp Hologenix, Inc. 5932 Bolsa Avenue Suite 104 Huntington Beach CA 92649 USA Phone : (714) 903-5999 Fax: (714) 903-5959 [email_address] www.hologenix.com SemiMap Scientific Instruments Tullastr. 67 79108 Freiburg Germany Phone: *49(0)761 5577878 Fax: *49(0)761 5577 879 [email_address] www.s e mimap.de Japan US and East Asia Europe
4. SemiMap pre-History Strong involvement in DIN/SEMI compound semiconductor standardization activities since 1990 Sale of COREMA-WT systems to industry and academia in Europe, US and Japan 1998-2003 Representation in US/Japan/Asia by Hologenix Inc., Los Angeles 1998 Multi- purpose application of TDCM for in-house research and material control; extensive presentation and publication activity; development of commercial system 1992 - 97 Basic paper by Stibal, Windscheif and Jantz; Delivery of prototype wafer topography system to Wacker Chemitronic, later transferred to Freiberger Compound Materials (FCM) 1991 Start of research activity at FhG-IAF to evaluate high resistivity semiconductors with contactless capacitive techniques (TDCM) 1989
5. SemiMap History Participation in SiC resistivity Round Robin, Presentations at ICSCRM in Otsu, Japan 2007 Cooperation with Moritani & Co Ltd. Tokyo, Japan Development of procedures to analyse locally inhomogeneous material 2006 Development and market introduction of CORTEMA-VT/ER 2005 Extension of material analysis to SiC, InP, GaN, Cd(Zn)Te, FZ-Si 2004 First SemiMap COREMA-WT sale, development and market introduction of COREMA-RM July 2003 Foundation of Semimap Scientific Instruments GmbH, transfer of technical know how and fabrication from FhG/IAF to SemiMap April 2003
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10. SemiMap Product Line Measurement of sheet resistance (>10 5 of epitaxial buffer layers COREMA-ER Measurement of resistivity at variable temperature up to 400 o C, evaluation of carrier activation energy via Arrhenius plot COREMA-VT Contactless evaluation of the carrier mobility (>1000 cm 2/ Vs) manual wafer shifting for selection of measurement spot. COREMA-RM Contactless mapping of wafers up to 200 mm ø 1 mm resolution; resistivity range 1x10 5 to 1x10 12 cm , automated measurement routines, statistical analysis. COREMA-WT
18. Technical Details (V) COREMA-RM new method standard method Acceptance SI material only µ > 1000 cm 2 /Vs general Applicability easy difficult Evaluation of SI material < 1% ~ 5% Repeatability ~ 30 s ~ 10 min Sample insertion and measurement time none ~ 15 min Sample preparation obsolete needed, critical Ohmic contacts nondestructive necessary Wafer cutting COREMA - RM CONVENTIONAL HALL ISSUE
23. Technical Details (I) COREMA-ER Buffer layers on semi-insulating substrates are analysed with a COREMA-VT harware system using a modified measurement and evaluation procedure. The epilayer resistance is obtained using a calibration factor depending on the design and size of the sensor. The epilayer resistivity is calulated using the layer thickness. Epilayer Substrate Support Sensor Charge Amplifier
35. Resistivity Topography Analysis of Persistent Photoconductivity Mean: 1.12 x10 10 cm Mean: 1.65 x10 11 cm Resistivity after 3h storage in darkness Resistivity after 48h storage in darkness
39. Mobility Measurement Plan Mobility evaluation using a customer specified measurement plan 150 mm GaAs wafer
40. High Temperature Resistivity Measurement 2“ SiC wafer Temperature range 40 – 200 0 C Resistivity range 3x10 5 – 1x10 10 Ω cm Not semi-insulating at 300 0 C E a = (kT 1 T 2 )/(T 2 -T 1 ) * ln [ (T 1 ) / (T 2 ) ]
41. High Temperature Resistivity Measurement 2“ SiC wafer Temperature range 260 – 340 0 C Resistivity range 5.6 x10 9 – 1.8x10 11 Ω cm Semi-insulating at 300 0 C
44. High Temperature Resistivity Measurement 2“ SiC wafer Temperature range 92 – 256 0 C Resistivity range 9.0 x10 8 – 2.3x10 10 Ω cm High resistivity, but small activation energy Exhibits strong persistent photoconductivity