APL Materials (Aug 2014)

Towards large size substrates for III-V co-integration made by direct wafer bonding on Si

  • N. Daix,
  • E. Uccelli,
  • L. Czornomaz,
  • D. Caimi,
  • C. Rossel,
  • M. Sousa,
  • H. Siegwart,
  • C. Marchiori,
  • J. M. Hartmann,
  • K.-T. Shiu,
  • C.-W. Cheng,
  • M. Krishnan,
  • M. Lofaro,
  • M. Kobayashi,
  • D. Sadana,
  • J. Fompeyrine

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4893653
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 8
pp. 086104 – 086104-6

Abstract

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We report the first demonstration of 200 mm InGaAs-on-insulator (InGaAs-o-I) fabricated by the direct wafer bonding technique with a donor wafer made of III-V heteroepitaxial structure grown on 200 mm silicon wafer. The measured threading dislocation density of the In0.53Ga0.47As (InGaAs) active layer is equal to 3.5 × 109 cm−2, and it does not degrade after the bonding and the layer transfer steps. The surface roughness of the InGaAs layer can be improved by chemical-mechanical-polishing step, reaching values as low as 0.4 nm root-mean-square. The electron Hall mobility in 450 nm thick InGaAs-o-I layer reaches values of up to 6000 cm2/Vs, and working pseudo-MOS transistors are demonstrated with an extracted electron mobility in the range of 2000–3000 cm2/Vs. Finally, the fabrication of an InGaAs-o-I substrate with the active layer as thin as 90 nm is achieved with a Buried Oxide of 50 nm. These results open the way to very large scale production of III-V-o-I advanced substrates for future CMOS technology nodes.