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Simple wet cleaning improvements can meet new silicon surface preparation criteria
… pristine and stable H-terminated silicon surface termination is required to enable ..... sequences. Oxide and hydride silicon surface termination Oxide-terminating ..... pristine and stable H-terminated silicon surface . Three primary hydride structures …
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Nanolasers grown on silicon using MOCVD
… Nanolasers grown directly on a silicon surface could be a starting point for ..... a III-V material, onto a silicon surface at 400°C. The researchers ..... nanolasers grown directly on a silicon surface . The achievement could lead …
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Natcore licenses NREL black silicon tech
… Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Black silicon does not reflect light, thanks to nano-scale pores etched in the silicon surface . Natcore has an exclusive license to NREL's patents on diffused emitters with liquid-phase passivation. Along …
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Single mask wafer overcoat process using photodefinable polyimide
… plastic molding compound interface is often required to protect the delicate layers of oxide and circuitry on the silicon surface from the stresses induced by the molding compound during operation of the chip. The stress buffer or overcoat is applied …
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A nonpenetrating 4PP measures USJ sheet resistance
A new method using elastic-material (EM) probes to form nonpenetrating contacts to the silicon surface to measure the four-point probe (4PP) sheet resistance of USJ source/drain structures is described. Sheet resistance measurements …
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Wafers/Substrates: Thickness measurement of submonolayer native oxide films on silicon wafers
… both the exposure time of a bare silicon surface to UPW and the dissolved oxygen ..... native oxide formation on a silicon surface and interface control are becoming ..... oxide growth on a HF-treated silicon surface during a very short UPW rinse …
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Roll-to-roll plasma etch equipment project completed
… expertise to adapt the technology for commercial markets.” Additional applications of the tool include texturizing a silicon surface during the manufacture of solar cells fabricated with multi crystal silicon, a material currently in wide industry …
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Micro-rheometer, microdevice adsorbtion get nods in Sandia student MEMS design contest
… facility using its "Summit V" (Ultra-planar, Multi-level MEMS Technology 5) -- a five-layer polycrystalline silicon surface micromachining process (one ground plane/electrical interconnect layer and four mechanical layers). Designs were …
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Process monitoring and surface characterization with in-line XPS metrology
… dry cleaning plasma step on a silicon surface for the source/drain implantation ..... indicating a modification of the silicon surface . To understand the nature of ..... descum process on the active silicon surface , XPS is used for chemical analysis …
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Performance chemicals in solar cell manufacturing
… representation of increase in light absorption on a textured silicon surface ; b) Silicon wafer after treatment with an alkaline ..... mixture, in which HNO 3 is added to oxidize the silicon surface and HF to strip the oxide. One of the main employed …
