Patent Abstract:
When a two-division structure heat treatment jig for semiconductor substrate that includes a silicon first jig that comes into direct contact with a semiconductor substrate that is heat treated and supports the semiconductor substrate, and a second jig (holder) that holds the first jig and is mounted on a heat treatment boat is adopted as a heat treatment boat of a vertical heat treatment furnace, the stress concentrated during the heat treatment on a particular portion of the semiconductor substrate can be reduced; in the case of a semiconductor substrate large in the tare stress and having an outer shape of 300 mm being heat treated, or even in the case of the heat treatment being carried out under very high temperature conditions, the slips can be suppressed from occurring. The present invention can be widely applied as a stable heat treatment method of semiconductor substrates.

Full Description:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION  
       [0001]     1. Field of the Invention  
         [0002]     The present invention relates to a heat treatment jig that is used in a heat treatment boat of a vertical heat treatment furnace and a heat treatment method, and in more detail, to a heat treatment jig for a semiconductor substrate that can suppress slip generated as a crystal defect when the semiconductor substrate is heat treated at a high temperature from occurring and a heat treatment method therewith.  
         [0003]     2. Description of the Related Art  
         [0004]     A semiconductor substrate that is processed in an LSI device fabrication process, in steps of oxidation, diffusion and film deposition, is repeatedly subjected to high temperature heat treatment to fabricate. At the time of the heat treatment, when an inhomogeneous temperature distribution is caused within a plane of the semiconductor substrate, in accordance therewith the thermal stress is generated in the semiconductor substrate.  
         [0005]     On the other hand, depending on a supporting method of the semiconductor substrate, owing to a weight of a wafer (substrate), the stress (hereinafter referred to simply as “tare stress”) is generated. In an existing heat treatment boat, in the case of the silicon substrate being supported only by a periphery portion thereof, when a semiconductor substrate having a diameter of 300 mm is heat treated, the tare stress is largely generated, resulting in difficulty to use.  
         [0006]     It is known that the thermal stress and the tare stress generate, in the heat treatment, crystal defect called the slip in the semiconductor substrate. The slip causes an increase in the leakage current of the LSI device and deteriorates the planarity of the semiconductor substrate. In order to secure the quality characteristics of the semiconductor substrate, in order to suppress the slip from occurring, it is important to reduce the thermal stress and the tare stress.  
         [0007]     In heat treating the semiconductor substrate, a vertical heat treatment furnace can reduce an installation space and is suitable for heat treating a lot of semiconductor substrates having a large diameter; accordingly, it is adopted as apparatus that is used in various heat treatments of semiconductor substrates.  
         [0008]      FIG. 1  is a diagram showing a configuration example of a heat treatment boat for use in semiconductor substrates that is used in the vertical heat treatment furnace. A heat treatment boat  1  includes three or more pillars  3  and a top panel  5  and a bottom panel  6  that fix these pillars  3  up and down positions, and is provided with an opening  2 . The pillar  3  is provided with substrate supporting portions  4  arranged in parallel. After the semiconductor substrates are placed from a side of the opening  2  on the substrate supporting portions  4 , the boat is inserted into the vertical heat treatment furnace followed by carrying out predetermined heat treatment.  
         [0009]     As shown in  FIG. 1 , the heat treatment boat  1  is constituted of a pair of top and bottom panels  5 ,  6  disposed distanced with a separation and a plurality of pillars  3  that links the top and bottom panels; accordingly, the opening  2  is necessarily disposed to place the semiconductor substrates on the substrate supporting portions  4  or to take out therefrom. Accordingly, normally, two pillars  3  disposed on a side of the opening  2 , in order to easily place or take out the semiconductor substrates, are disposed distanced with a separation substantially equal to a diameter of the semiconductor substrate.  
         [0010]     In heat treating small diameter semiconductor substrates, a method has been widely used in which by use of the heat treatment boat  1  shown in  FIG. 1 , an outer periphery portion of a back surface of the substrate is supported at a plurality of points of substantially three or four points. However, with a recent increase in a diameter of the semiconductor substrate, largely increased tare stress became to be generated. As a result, in the method in which the outer periphery portion of a back surface of the substrate is supported at three or four points by means of the heat treatment boat  1  shown in  FIG. 1 , in accordance with an increase in the tare stress at the supporting points, the inhomogeneous distribution of the tare stress is forwarded, resulting in abundant generation of the slips.  
         [0011]     Accordingly, recently, in order to reduce the occurrence of the slips in conjunction with an increase in the diameter of the semiconductor substrate, a jig that supports the inside of the back surface of the semiconductor substrate at a plurality of points, or a jig that supports the semiconductor substrate by a ring-like line contact or surface contact with the semiconductor substrate has been put into practical use.  
         [0012]     By use of the jig that is put into practical use and supports the inside of the back surface of the semiconductor substrate, the slips that are caused when the semiconductor substrate is heat treated can be reduced. However, in order to reduce the slips with precision by use of these heat treatment jigs that have a structure in which contact method is altered, problems are newly caused.  
         [0013]     For instance, since the back surface of the semiconductor substrate adheres to the supporting jig, the semiconductor substrate and the supporting jig each are restricted in the deformation. Accordingly, in some cases, large stress that exceeds the thermal stress or the tare stress may be added anew to the semiconductor substrate. In such a case, newly added stress generates the slip.  
         [0014]     As a new cause of the slip generation, there is one due to the processing accuracy of the heat treatment jig itself; in particular, the slip generation largely depends on the flatness and the surface roughness of surfaces in a region where the back surface of the semiconductor substrate and the supporting jig come into contact.  
         [0015]     Ordinarily, the heat treatment jig that is used in high temperature heat treatment is manufactured of silicon carbide. Accordingly, the flatness in a region where the semiconductor substrate and the supporting jig come into contact is 200 μm or less, and a jig surface has a structure where surface irregularities are locally put together.  
         [0016]     In this connection, the present inventors have proposed a heat treatment method in which a silicon carbide holder having a thickness of less than 1 mm is disposed, thereon a silicon or silicon carbide ring or disc jig smaller in a diameter than the semiconductor substrate is disposed, and further thereon the semiconductor substrate is placed to perform the heat treatment (Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. 2001-358086).  
         [0017]     Similarly, the present inventors disclose a heat treatment jig in which on a silicon carbide heat treatment jig that is used in a vapor-phase growth method, a center protrusion that supports a center portion of a back surface of a semiconductor substrate and at least one circular arc that supports the back surface of the substrate are disposed, and on all or part of a contact surface of the center protrusion and the circular arc that come into contact with the semiconductor substrate a capping member is disposed (Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. 2003-037112).  
         [0018]     On the other hand, Japanese Patent Application Laid-open Nos. 9-199438 and 10-270369 due to other inventors than the present inventors disclose a method in which by use of a supporting jig formed into a disc-like or ring-like shape, silicon substrates are placed on these supporting jigs followed by applying heat treatment. However, these publications do not describe of the flatness of the disc-like or ring-like supporting jig and the aggregate of the concave and salient.  
         [0019]     According to the heat treatment method proposed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. 2001-358086, under very high temperature heat treatment conditions that exceed 1300° C. in the heat treatment temperature and are longer than 10 hours in the holding time period such as the heat treatment of SIMOX substrate, silicon carbide itself that constitutes the holder becomes weaker in the mechanical strength. Accordingly, since a thickness of the holder is less than 1 mm, the bending cannot be suppressed from occurring; as a result, also in the ring or disc jig that the holder supports, similarly the bending is generated. Finally, the slips are generated even in the semiconductor substrate.  
         [0020]     As mentioned above, the reason for the slips being generated in the semiconductor substrate is due to the lack of the mechanical strength of the silicon carbide holder and furthermore the ring or disc jig that the holder supports under very high temperature heat treatment conditions. Furthermore, depending on the conditions of contact with the semiconductor substrate, the adherence at a contact surface between a small diameter disc or ring jig and the semiconductor substrate becomes stronger; accordingly, the slips due to local adherence also are generated.  
         [0021]     Even when with the jig disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. 2003-037112, heights of the circular arc and the center protrusion on the holder are processed with precision, owing to the bending of the holder generated during the high temperature heat treatment, an error is generated between the heights of the circular arc and the center protrusion on the holder, resulting in difficulty in diminishing the slips.  
         [0022]     In order to diminish the error generated during the high temperature heat treatment, a thick holder can be ground out of sintered silicon carbide, and therewith a center protrusion and a circular arc that are difficult to exhibit the bending can be fabricated. However, since manufacturing cost increases, this cannot be applied to industrial mass-production.  
         [0023]     Furthermore, even when the disc-shaped or the ring-shaped supporting jig described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-open Nos. 9-199438 and 10-270369 is used, under the very high temperature heat treatment conditions, the slips occur in the semiconductor substrate. Thus, the use of the disc-shaped or ring-shaped supporting substrate alone cannot suppress the slips that are generated in conjunction with the heat treatment from occurring.  
       SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION  
       [0024]     The present invention was performed in view of the above-mentioned problems and intends to provide a heat treatment jig for semiconductor substrates that in the case of a semiconductor substrate being heat treated by use of a heat treatment boat of a vertical heat treatment furnace, the stress applied on the semiconductor substrate can be diminished and thereby the slips can be suppressed from occurring, and a heat treatment method of semiconductor substrates therewith.  
         [0025]     The present inventors, as a result of various investigations to achieve the above object, paid attention to that in the case of heat treatment being carried out by use of a heat treatment boat of a vertical heat treatment furnace, a heat treatment jig placed on a heat treatment boat is effectively constituted of a first jig that comes into direct contact with the semiconductor substrate to support and a second jig (hereinafter referred to simply as “a holder”) that supports the first jig and is placed on the heat treatment boat.  
         [0026]     After further studying, it was desirably found that as the optimization of jig materials, the first jig was constituted of silicon material, the holder was necessarily constituted of a material large in the high temperature strength such as silicon carbide, and furthermore the surface roughness and the surface flatness of the first jig and the holder are stipulated.  
         [0027]     When the first jig made of silicon material is formed with the flatness of 100 μm or less and preferably 50 μm or less in a surface of a region that comes into direct contact with a semiconductor substrate to support, the first jig can stably support the semiconductor substrate. When the surface flatness exceeds 100 μm, the contact with the semiconductor substrate tends to be a point contact and the slips tend to be generated.  
         [0028]     As the flatness defined in the present invention, one defined in JIS B 0621 is used.  
         [0029]     A thickness in a region that comes into direct contact with the semiconductor substrate of the first jig is set at from 0.5 to 10 mm, and preferably from 0.7 to 5.0 mm. When the thickness is less than 0.5 mm, during the processing of the jigs, damage of the jigs is frequently caused, the yield decreases largely when the jigs are manufactured and at the same time the jig is largely influenced by the flatness of the holder. On the other hand, when the thickness exceeds 10 mm, the number of pieces of the semiconductor substrates that can be placed on a heat treatment boat decreases, resulting in lowering the productivity of the heat treatment.  
         [0030]     The surface roughness in a region that comes into direct contact with a semiconductor substrate of the first jig is set at from 0.02 to 10 μm and preferably from 5.0 μm or less. When the surface roughness is less than 0.2 μm, the first jig is likely to adhere to the semiconductor substrate; on the other hand, when the surface roughness exceeds 10 μm, during the blasting to secure the surface roughness, the jig may be damaged.  
         [0031]     In the first jig, even in a region that comes into contact with the holder, the surface roughness is set at from 0.02 to 10 μm and preferably 5.0 μm or less. The reason is the same as that in the case of the surface roughness in a region that comes into direct contact with the above-mentioned semiconductor substrate.  
         [0032]     The surface roughness defined in the invention represents the centerline average roughness (Ra) defined in JIS B 0601.  
         [0033]     The first jig is structured into a disc-like or ring-like shape and as far as a structure that can stably support the semiconductor substrate any structure can be applied. In the case of the jig structure being a ring-like or horseshoe shape, a width of the jig that comes into contact with the semiconductor substrate, that is, a ring width or a horseshoe width is preferably set at 0.5 mm or more.  
         [0034]     Furthermore, in the first jig, when on a surface of a region that comes into direct contact with the semiconductor substrate any one of a silicon carbide film, an oxide film, or a poly-silicon film is formed, the slips can be further diminished.  
         [0035]     When the flatness of a surface of a region where the holder and the first jig come into direct contact is made 200 μm or less and preferably 100 μm or less, the first jig can be stably held. That is, when the flatness of the holder is made 200 μm or less, during the high temperature heat treatment, the first jig can be inhibited from exhibiting the plastic deformation in conformity with the flatness of the holder.  
         [0036]     A thickness in a region where the holder comes into direct contact with the first jig is set in the range of 0.5 to 10 mm. When the thickness thereof is less than 0.5 mm, the flatness of the holder cannot be processed with excellent precision; on the other hand, when the thickness thereof exceeds 10 mm, a heat content within the heat treatment boat increases, resulting in deteriorating the heating efficiency and reducing the number of pieces of semiconductor substrates that can be placed on the heat treatment boat.  
         [0037]     The surface roughness in a region where the holder comes into direct contact with the first jig, in order to inhibit the holder from adhering to the first jig made of silicon material, is preferably set in the range of 0.02 to 10 μm.  
         [0038]     The materials that the holder adopts can be selected according to heat treatment temperatures to be used. For instance, in the case of the heat treatment being repeated at for instance 1000° C. or more, silicon carbide and so on can be well adopted; in the case of the heat treatment being carried out at 1000° C. or less, quartz, silicon and so on may well be adopted.  
         [0039]     As a structure of the holder, as far as the heat treatment jig can be stabilized, any structure can be applied. For instance, in order to reduce the heat content of the holder, it may be formed into a ring structure or a spot facing structure.  
         [0040]     Furthermore, in order to stably use the heat treatment jig for a long time, in the case of a thickness of the holder being such thin as from 0.5 to 1.0 mm, a thickness of the first jig that the holder supports is preferably set at 1.0 mm or more. When the thickness of the holder exceeds 1.0 mm, the thickness of the first jig that the holder supports is preferably set at 0.5 mm or more.  
         [0041]     When the above configuration is adopted, the heat treatment jig for semiconductor substrates according to the invention is constituted in a two-division structure that includes the first jig that comes into direct contact with the semiconductor substrate and supports the same and is formed of silicon material; and a second jig (holder) that supports the first jig and is placed on the heat treatment boat. With the configuration, as explained below, the slips that are generated in the semiconductor substrate can be effectively inhibited from occurring.  
         [0042]     For instance, a case where in the case of a plurality of semiconductor silicon substrates having a diameter of 300 mm being put in a vertical heat treatment furnace to apply heat treatment, on a holder made of silicon carbide and having a diameter of 320 mm, a disc-shaped first jig made of a single crystal silicon material having a diameter of 200 mm is placed and thereon a semiconductor silicon substrate is placed will be considered.  
         [0043]     In the heat treatment, an in-plane temperature difference of the disc-like first jig that has a diameter smaller than that of the holder becomes smaller than an in-plane temperature difference of the holder. Accordingly, the thermal stress applied on the semiconductor silicon substrate can be alleviated when the disc-like first jig is disposed. Furthermore, since the first jig is made of single crystal silicon material, the thermal expansion coefficient of the semiconductor silicon substrate is also the same; accordingly, it works advantageously on the deformation during the heat treatment.  
         [0044]     In the case of local adhesion being generated between a back surface of the semiconductor silicon substrate and the first jig, as mentioned above, since the two division structure is adopted, the binding force does not work to each other between the holder and the first jig; accordingly, the semiconductor silicon substrate is not affected by the holder that is different in the thermal expansion coefficient.  
         [0045]     In other words, in the heat treatment, the semiconductor silicon substrate is affected only by the first jig that has the same thermal expansion coefficient as the semiconductor silicon substrate; accordingly, the stress applied in the adhesion region can be reduced and the slips can be suppressed from generating. Furthermore, since the semiconductor silicon substrate and the first jig are made of materials identical also in the mechanical strength, bruise and damage in a contact region are generated with difficulty. Accordingly, also from such a point, it exhibits an effect in suppressing the slips from generating.  
         [0046]     In the heat treatment jig for semiconductor substrate according to the invention, even when the first jig is formed with a diameter the same as or larger than that of the semiconductor silicon substrate, an effect due to the two-division structure can be obtained. As mentioned above, in addition to the thermal expansion coefficients and the mechanical strengths being the same, the jig on which the semiconductor silicon substrate is placed is divided; accordingly, the temperature difference in a thickness direction in the heat treatment jig, in comparison with that of an integral construction, is more reduced, resulting in more reducing the deformation of the holder and the first jig.  
         [0047]     The heat treatment jig for semiconductor substrate according to the invention, when the first jig that uses silicon material is optimized and the holder itself that supports this is optimized, can be stably used under very high temperature heat treatment conditions such as the SIMOX heat treatment, and furthermore the slips generated in the semiconductor silicon substrate can be reduced.  
         [0048]     In the case of an atmosphere of the heat treatment furnace being a non-oxidizing atmosphere such as a hydrogen gas atmosphere or an argon gas atmosphere and the heat treatment being carried out for a long time at 1000° C. or more, in order to inhibit silicon materials from strongly adhering to each other, it is effective to form an oxide film, a nitride film or a silicon carbide film on a surface of the first jig. Furthermore, even when an atmosphere of the heat treatment furnace is an oxidizing atmosphere, similarly, a film may be formed on a surface, or without forming a film it may be used as it is.  
         [0049]     In the case of the slips being generated at a particular position of the semiconductor silicon substrate on the occasion of the heat treatment, when a surface of the first jig corresponding to the particular position is locally ground or polished with silicon material or silicon carbide material, the slips can be inhibited from occurring.  
         [0050]     When the semiconductor silicon substrate and the first jig come into adhesion, the semiconductor silicon substrate is partially peeled and solidly adhered to the surface of the first jig, and thereby the slips are caused. However, by locally grinding or polishing, exfoliation adhered onto the surface of the first jig can be removed, and thereby causes of the slip can be eliminated.  
         [0051]     When the above configuration is adopted, according to the heat treatment jig for semiconductor substrate of the invention, even in the case of a semiconductor wafer that has a diameter of 300 mm and is large in the tare stress being heat-treated at high temperatures, the slips generated as the crystal defect can be effectively inhibited from occurring. 
     
    
     BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS  
       [0052]      FIG. 1  is a diagram showing an example of a configuration of a heat treatment boat for use in semiconductor substrates that is used in a vertical heat treatment furnace.  
         [0053]      FIG. 2  is a diagram showing a configuration of a heat treatment jig  10  that is a first embodiment of the invention.  
         [0054]      FIG. 3  is a diagram showing a configuration of a heat treatment jig  20  that is a second embodiment of the invention.  
         [0055]      FIG. 4  is a diagram showing a configuration of a heat treatment jig  30  that is a third embodiment of the invention.  
         [0056]      FIG. 5  is a diagram showing a configuration of a heat treatment jig  40  that is a fourth embodiment of the invention.  
         [0057]      FIG. 6  is a diagram showing a configuration of a heat treatment jig  50  that is a fifth embodiment of the invention.  
         [0058]      FIG. 7  is a diagram showing a configuration of a heat treatment jig  60  that is a sixth embodiment of the invention.  
         [0059]      FIG. 8  is a diagram showing a configuration of a heat treatment jig  70  that is a seventh embodiment of the invention.  
         [0060]      FIG. 9  is a diagram showing a configuration of a heat treatment jig  80  that is an eighth embodiment of the invention.  
         [0061]      FIG. 10  is a diagram showing a configuration of the heat treatment jig  90  that is a ninth embodiment of the invention.  
         [0062]      FIG. 11  is a diagram showing a configuration of a comparative embodiment 1 where a holder  11  of the heat treatment jig  10  shown in  FIG. 2  is used but a ring  21  that is made of silicon single crystal is not used.  
         [0063]      FIG. 12  is a diagram showing a configuration of a comparative embodiment 2 where a holder  12  of the heat treatment jig  20  shown in  FIG. 3  is used but a ring  22  made of silicon single crystal is not used.  
         [0064]      FIG. 13  is a diagram showing a configuration of a comparative embodiment 3 where a holder  13  of the heat treatment jig  30  shown in  FIG. 4  is used but a ring  23  made of silicon single crystal is not used. 
     
    
     DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS  
       [0065]     In the following, modes for carrying out heat treatment jigs for use in semiconductor substrates according to the present invention that are placed on a heat treatment boat of a vertical heat treatment furnace will be detailed with reference to the drawings; however, the present invention is not restricted to these specific embodiments.  
         [0066]     All substrates used in the following embodiments and comparative embodiments are silicon for semiconductor having a diameter of 300 mm. At this time, the heat treatment is carried out under the following conditions; that is, the temperature up is began from room temperature in a 50% oxygen atmosphere up to 1320° C., followed by maintaining there for 15 hr, further followed by lowering to room temperature. The semiconductor silicon substrates after the heat treatment were observed of the slip by use of surface defect evaluating apparatus (magic mirror and X-ray). In order to confirm the reproducibility for all conditions, 2 to 3 times of investigations were repeated.  
       EMBODIMENTS  
       [0067]     In embodiments, with reference to  FIGS. 2 through 10 , configurations of ninth kinds of heat treatment jigs ( 10  to  90 ) will be explained.  
         [0068]      FIG. 2  is a diagram showing a configuration of a heat treatment jig  10  that is a first embodiment of the invention. A holder  11  that is used in the heat treatment jig  10  is made of vapor-phase grown silicon carbide and provided with a ring structure  11   a.    
         [0069]     The holder  11  has a diameter (Hd) of 320 mm and a thickness (Ht) of 1.3 mm; and the ring structure  11   a  has a diameter (Hrd) of 222 mm, a height (Hrh) of 3.5 mm and a width (Hrw) of 1.2 mm. The ring structure  11   a  of the holder  11  was subjected to the surface processing so that the surface roughness may be 1.6 μm and the flatness may be 185 and 20 μm.  
         [0070]     Subsequently, on the ring structure  11   a , a ring  21  made of silicon single crystal was placed. In the ring  21 , an outer diameter (Rd) and a ring width (Rw), respectively, were set at 223 mm and 1.5 mm, and a thickness (Rt) was varied between 0.5, 0.7, 1.0, 2.0, 5.0 and 10.0 mm.  
         [0071]     Furthermore, in a region where the ring  21  comes into contact with a semiconductor silicon substrate  8  and the ring structure  11   a , the flatness was processed to be from 30 to 35 μm and the surface roughness to be from 0.7 to 1.6 μm.  
         [0072]     As shown in  FIG. 2 , on the heat treatment jig  10  constituted into two-division structure in which the ring  21  is placed on the holder  11 , a silicon substrate  8  was placed, the holder  11  was mounted on a heat treatment boat and put into a vertical heat treatment furnace (not shown in the drawing) followed by applying heat treatment.  
         [0073]     After the heat treatment under the above conditions, the semiconductor silicon substrate  8  was taken out followed by surface observation. In the semiconductor silicon substrate  8  placed on the holder  11  whose ring structure has the flatness of 185 μm, when the thickness of the ring  21  was 0.5 mm, three large slips were generated.  
         [0074]     However, in the case of the thickness of the ring  21  being from 0.7 to 2.0 mm, there were observed no thickness dependency. As the result of the reproducibility test, there was no occurrence of the slip or one to three fine slips were observed.  
         [0075]     In the next place, the holder  11  that has the ring structure having the flatness of 20 μm exhibited substantially the same result as that of the holder  11  that has the flatness of 185 μm; however, the slips occurring in the case of the ring having the thickness of 0.5 mm tend to decrease.  
         [0076]     Accordingly, it is found that the slips are likely to be influenced by the holder flatness and when the thickness of the ring  21  is thin influence on the occurrence of the slips becomes larger.  
         [0077]      FIG. 3  is a diagram showing a configuration of a heat treatment jig  20  that is a second embodiment of the invention. A holder  12  that is used in the heat treatment jig  20  is made of vapor-phase grown silicon carbide and provided with a ring structure  12   a.    
         [0078]     The holder  12  has a diameter (Hd) of 320 mm and a thickness (Ht) of 1.5 mm; and the ring structure  12   a  has a height (Hrh) of 2.0 mm, an outer diameter (Hrd) of 285 mm, an inner diameter (Hid) of 203 mm and a width (Hrw) of 41 mm. The ring structure  12   a  of the holder  12  was subjected to the surface processing so that the flatness may be 40 μm and the surface roughness may be 1.6 μm.  
         [0079]     Subsequently, on the ring structure  12   a , a ring  22  made of silicon single crystal and having an outer diameter (Rd) of 223 mm, a thickness (Rt) of 2.0 mm and a width (Rw) varying in 0.5, 0.8 and 1.5 mm was placed.  
         [0080]     Furthermore, a region where the ring  22  comes into contact with a semiconductor silicon substrate  8  and the ring structure  12   a  of the holder  12  was surface processed so that the flatness might be from 20 to 35 μm and the surface roughness might be 1.6 μm.  
         [0081]     As shown in  FIG. 3 , on the heat treatment jig  20  constituted into two-division structure in which the ring  22  was thus placed on the holder  12 , a semiconductor silicon substrate  8  was placed followed by mounting on a heat treatment boat further followed by putting into a vertical heat treatment furnace to apply heat treatment.  
         [0082]     Similarly, after the heat treatment, the semiconductor silicon substrate  8  was taken out, followed by surface observation. The occurrence of the slips did not exhibit dependency on the width of the ring that was placed on the holder. Also from the result of the reproducibility test, there was no occurrence of the slip or only one to two fine slips were observed. Therefrom, it is understood that the width of the ring that supports the semiconductor silicon substrate may well be at least 0.5 mm.  
         [0083]      FIG. 4  is a diagram showing a configuration of a heat treatment jig  30  that is a third embodiment of the invention. A holder  13  that is used in the heat treatment jig  30  is made of sintered silicon carbide and provided with a disc structure  13   a.    
         [0084]     The holder  13  has a diameter (Hd) of 320 mm and a thickness (Ht) of 1.25 mm; and the disc structure  13   a  has a diameter of (Hrd) of 285 mm and a height (Hrh) of 0.75 mm. The disc structure  13   a  of the holder  13  was subjected to the surface processing so that the flatness might be 20 μm and the surface roughness might be 1.5 μm.  
         [0085]     Subsequently, on the disc structure  13   a , a ring  23  that is made of silicon single crystal and has an outer diameter (Rd) of 228 mm and an inner diameter (Rid) of 152 mm, and a thickness (Rt) of 2.0 mm was placed.  
         [0086]     Furthermore, in a region where the ring  23  comes into contact with the semiconductor silicon substrate  8  and the disc structure  13   a  of the holder  13 , the surface processing was applied so that the flatness might be 20 μm and the surface roughness might be from 1.6 to 1.7 μm.  
         [0087]     As shown in  FIG. 4 , on the heat treatment jig  30  constituted into two-division structure in which the ring  23  is placed on the holder  13 , a 300 mm semiconductor silicon substrate  8  was placed, followed by mounting on a heat treatment boat  1 , further followed by putting into a vertical heat treatment furnace to apply heat treatment.  
         [0088]     After the heat treatment, the semiconductor silicon substrate  8  was taken out, followed by surface observation. Similarly to the case of the heat treatment jig  20 , the occurrence of the slips did not exhibit dependency on the width of the ring placed on the holder. Also from the result of the reproducibility test, there was no occurrence of the slip or only one to two fine slips were observed.  
         [0089]      FIG. 5  is a diagram showing a configuration of a heat treatment jig  40  that is a fourth embodiment of the invention. A holder  13  that is used in the heat treatment jig  40  is made of sintered silicon carbide and provided with a disc structure  13   a.    
         [0090]     The holder  13  has a diameter (Hd) of 320 mm and a height (Ht) of 1.25 mm; and the disc structure  13   a  has a diameter (Hrd) of 285 mm and a height (Hrh) of 0.75 mm. The disc structure  13   a  of the holder  13  was subjected to the surface processing so that the flatness might be 20 μm and the surface roughness might be 1.5 μm.  
         [0091]     On the disc structure  13   a , a disc  24  made of silicon single crystal and having a diameter (Rd) of 223 mm and a thickness (Rt) of 2 mm was placed. In the disc  24 , the flatness and the surface roughness, respectively, of portions where the disc  24  comes into contact with the semiconductor silicon substrate  8  and the disc structure  13   a  of the holder  13  were processed so as to be 30 μm and 1.5 μm.  
         [0092]     On the heat treatment jig  40  constituted of the disc  24  and the holder  13 , the semiconductor silicon substrate  8  was placed followed by mounting on a heat treatment boat further followed by putting into a vertical heat treatment furnace to apply heat treatment.  
         [0093]     After the heat treatment, the semiconductor silicon substrate  8  was taken out, followed by surface observation. Even in the heat treatment jig  40  constituted into a disc structure, similarly to the case of the heat treatment jig  20 , the occurrence of the slip was not observed or only one to two fine slips were observed.  
         [0094]      FIG. 6  is a diagram showing a configuration of a heat treatment jig  50  that is a fifth embodiment of the invention. A holder  13  that is used in the heat treatment jig  50  is made of sintered silicon carbide and provided with a disc structure  13   a.    
         [0095]     The holder  13  has a diameter (Hd) of 320 mm and a height (Ht) of 1.25 mm; and the disc structure  13   a  has a diameter (Hrd) of 285 mm and a height (Hrh) of 0.75 mm. The disc structure  13   a  of the holder  13  was subjected to the surface processing so that the flatness might be 20 μm and the surface roughness might be 1.5 μm.  
         [0096]     On the disc structure  13   a , a dual structure ring  25  having a thickness (Rt) of 3 mm was placed, the dual structure ring  25  being made of silicon single crystal and including an outer peripheral ring that has an outer diameter (Rd) of 230 mm and an inner diameter (Ri) of 220 mm, and further inside thereof, an inner peripheral ring that has an outer diameter (Rid) of 90 mm and an inner diameter (Rii) of 80 mm.  
         [0097]     In the dual structure ring  25 , the flatness and the surface roughness, respectively, of a portion thereof that comes into contact with the semiconductor silicon substrate  8  and the disc structure  13   a  of the holder  13  were finished so as to be 25 μm and 1.3 μm.  
         [0098]     On the heat treatment jig  50  constituted of the dual structure ring  25  and the holder  13 , the semiconductor silicon substrate  8  was placed followed by mounting on a heat treatment boat further followed by putting into a vertical heat treatment furnace to apply heat treatment.  
         [0099]     After the heat treatment, the semiconductor silicon substrate  8  was taken out, followed by surface observation. Even in the heat treatment jig  50  constituted into an integrated dual structure ring, similarly to the case of the heat treatment jig  20 , the occurrence of the slip was not observed or only one to two fine slips were observed.  
         [0100]      FIG. 7  is a diagram showing a configuration of a heat treatment jig  60  that is a sixth embodiment of the invention. In the heat treatment jig  60 , a disc  26  with a silicon carbide film is used, the disc  26  with a silicon carbide film being formed by processing the disc  24  made of single crystal silicon that was used in the heat treatment jig  40  shown in  FIG. 5 .  
         [0101]     The disc  26  with a silicon carbide film was fabricated in such a way that a silicon carbide film was deposited on a surface of the disc  24  shown in the  FIG. 5 , by means of a vapor-phase deposition method, with a thickness of 20 μm, thereafter irregular protrusions were removed by hand-polishing, and furthermore the blasting was applied so that the surface roughness might be 1.2 μm.  
         [0102]     The disc  26  with a silicon carbide film, similarly to the  FIG. 5 , was placed on the disc structure  13   a  of the sintered silicon carbide holder  13 , on the heat treatment jig  60  constituted of the disc  26  with a silicon carbide film and the holder  13 , the semiconductor silicon substrate  8  was placed followed by mounting on a heat treatment boat further followed by putting into a vertical heat treatment furnace to apply heat treatment.  
         [0103]     After the heat treatment, the semiconductor silicon substrate  8  was taken out and observed of the surface. Even when the surface of the heat treatment jig made of single crystal silicon was covered with a thin silicon carbide film, an effect the same as that in the heat treatment jig  40  was obtained. That is, since a silicon carbide coating is thin, the material characteristics (thermal expansion coefficient and so on) are supposed to depend on the silicon material.  
         [0104]      FIG. 8  is a diagram showing a configuration of a heat treatment jig  70  that is a seventh embodiment of the invention. In the heat treatment jig  70 , a silicon carbide holder  17  having a diameter (Hd) of 320 mm, a thickness (Ht) of 3.0 mm, the flatness of 40 μm and the surface roughness of 1.2 μm is used.  
         [0105]     On the holder  17 , a disc  27  made of silicon single crystal material and having a diameter (Rd) of 305 mm, a thickness (Rt) of 2.0 mm, the surface roughness of 2.0 μm and the flatness of 20 μm was placed. On the heat treatment jig  70  formed into the dual structure, the semiconductor silicon substrate  8  was placed followed by mounting on the heat treatment boat  1  further followed by putting into a vertical heat treatment furnace to apply heat treatment.  
         [0106]     After the heat treatment, the semiconductor silicon substrate  8  was taken out and observed of the surface thereof. Even when a heat treatment jig made of silicon material having a diameter larger than the semiconductor silicon substrate was used, the situation of slip occurrence was excellent.  
         [0107]      FIG. 9  is a diagram showing a configuration of a heat treatment jig  80  that is an eighth embodiment of the invention. In the heat treatment jig  80 , a sintered silicon carbide holder  18  having a diameter (Hd) of 320 mm, a thickness (Ht) of 5.0 mm, the flatness of 25 μm and the surface roughness of 1.2 μm is used.  
         [0108]     On the holder  18 , a disc  19  that is similarly made of sintered silicon carbide and has a diameter (Hrd) of 305 mm, a thickness (Hrh) of 5.0 mm, the flatness of 20 μm and the surface roughness of 0.02 μm was further placed, and further thereon a silicon ring  22  that was used in the heat treatment jig  20  shown in  FIG. 3  and has an outer diameter (Rd) of 223 mm, a thickness (Rt) of 2.0 mm and a ring width (Rw) of 1.5 mm was placed.  
         [0109]     On the heat treatment jig  80  formed into a triple structure of the holder  18 , the disc  19  and the ring  22 , the semiconductor silicon substrate  8  was placed followed by mounting on the heat treatment boat further followed by putting into a vertical heat treatment furnace to apply heat treatment.  
         [0110]     After the heat treatment, the semiconductor silicon substrate  8  was taken out and observed of the surface thereof. Even when a 5 mm thick disc was placed on a 5 mm thick holder to result in a 10 mm thickness in total, the slip occurrence could be excellently suppressed.  
         [0111]      FIG. 10  is a diagram showing a configuration of a heat treatment jig  90  that is a seventh embodiment of the invention. A holder  12  that is used in the heat treatment jig  20  is made of vapor-phase grown silicon carbide and provided with a ring structure  12   a.    
         [0112]     The holder  12  has a diameter (Hd) of 320 mm and a thickness (Ht) of 1.5 mm; and the ring structure  12   a  has a height (Hrh) of 2.0 mm, an outer diameter (Hrd) of 285 mm, an inner diameter (Hid) of 203 mm and a width (Hrw) of 41 mm. The ring structure  12   a  of the holder  12  was subjected to the surface processing so that the flatness may be 40 μm and the surface roughness may be 1.6 μm.  
         [0113]     Subsequently, along the periphery of the ring structure  12   a , a ring  28  that is made of silicon single crystal and has an outer diameter (Rd) of 290 mm and an inner diameter (Ri) of 286 mm, and a thickness (Rt) of 2.0 mm, and also a ring  29  that is made of silicon single crystal and has an outer diameter (Rid) of 202 mm, an inner diameter (Rii) of 198 mm and a thickness (Rt) of 2 mm were placed.  
         [0114]     Furthermore, in regions where the ring  28  and the ring  29  come into contact with the semiconductor silicon substrate  8  and the holder  12  was surface processed so that the flatness might be from 20 to 35 μm and the surface roughness might be 1.4 μm.  
         [0115]     As shown in  FIG. 10 , on the heat treatment jig  90  constituted into two-division structure in which the ring  28  and the ring  29  were thus placed on the holder  12 , a semiconductor silicon substrate  8  was placed followed by mounting on a heat treatment boat further followed by putting into a vertical heat treatment furnace to apply heat treatment.  
         [0116]     Similarly, after the heat treatment, the semiconductor silicon substrate  8  was taken out. Followed by surface observation. Even in the heat treatment jig  90  constituted into the structure that was supported on the both surfaces of silicon carbide and silicon ring, similarly to the case of the heat treatment jig  90 , the occurrence of the slip was not observed or only two to three fine slips were observed.  
         [0117]     In the case of using the ring  28  or the ring  29 , the reduction of the slip was also effective. (not showing in the drawing).  
         [0118]     Furthermore, though not shown in the drawing, on a sintered silicon carbide holder having a diameter of 320 mm, a thickness of 0.7 mm, the flatness of 150 μm and the surface roughness of 0.6 μm, a silicon ring  23  that was used in the heat treatment jig  30  shown in  FIG. 4  and has a height varying in 0.5 mm, 1.0 mm, 5.0 mm and 10 mm was placed, followed by mounting a semiconductor silicon substrate further thereon, further followed by putting into a vertical heat treatment furnace.  
         [0119]     After the heat treatment, the semiconductor silicon substrate  8  was taken out followed by observing the surface thereof. When the height of the silicon ring was 0.5 mm, four to five fine slips were generated. It was found that when the height of the silicon ring was 1.0 mm, the slip occurrence further decreased than in the case of the height being 0.5 mm, and when the height was 5.0 mm the slip occurrence was the same as the cases of the heat treatment jigs  20  and  30 .  
         [0120]     That is, it was found that even in the case of silicon carbide being thin, when a thickness of a silicon heat treatment jig disposed thereon increases, the mechanical strength thereof becomes stronger, resulting in exhibiting an effect of reducing the slip.  
       Comparative Embodiment  
       [0121]      FIGS. 11 through 13  are diagrams showing configurations of heat treatment jigs that are comparative embodiments.  FIG. 11  is a diagram showing a configuration of comparative embodiment 1 where the holder  11  of the heat treatment jig  10  shown in  FIG. 2  is used but the ring  21  that is made of silicon single crystal is not used.  
         [0122]      FIG. 12  is a diagram showing a configuration of comparative embodiment 2 where the holder  12  of the heat treatment jig  20  shown in  FIG. 3  is used but the ring  22  that is made of silicon single crystal is not used.  FIG. 13  is a diagram showing a configuration of comparative embodiment 3 where the holder  13  of the heat treatment jig  30  shown in  FIG. 4  is used but the ring  23  that is made of silicon single crystal is not used.  
         [0123]     In all cases shown in  FIGS. 11 through 13 , without using the rings  21 ,  22  and  23  shown in  FIGS. 2 through 4 , semiconductor silicon substrates  8  were directly placed followed by putting into a vertical heat treatment furnace.  
         [0124]     In comparative embodiment 1 shown in  FIG. 11 , in the case of a holder that has the flatness of 185 μm, in a ring supporting position along a circumference of 221 mm, a lot of large slips occurred; also in the case of a holder that has the flatness of 20 μm, the slips occurred similarly a lot but decreasing tendency was exhibited.  
         [0125]     In comparative embodiment 2 shown in  FIG. 12 , ten and several large slips occurred in a region corresponding to a circumferential position of an outer diameter of 285 mm, and several fine slips also occurred along a periphery of an inner periphery of 203 mm. Furthermore, also in a plane of a holder that supports the semiconductor silicon substrate, cross-shaped slips occurred.  
         [0126]     In comparative embodiment 3 shown in  FIG. 13 , similarly to comparative embodiment 2, in a region corresponding to a circumferential position of an outer diameter of 285 mm, several long fine slips occurred.  
         [0127]     According to results of comparative embodiments 1 through 3, in the case of only the holder (made of silicon carbide) being used, the slips occurred in the surroundings of a supporting surface; accordingly, it is assumed that a back surface of the semiconductor silicon substrate that comes into contact with the surroundings of the supporting portion is bruised, and with this as starting points the slips grow.  
         [0128]     In the heat treatment jig for semiconductor substrate, configurations having a silicon carbide holder alone, under all conditions, could not suppress the slip from occurring. When a first jig made of single crystal silicon is mounted on the holder, thereby forming into a two-division structure, the occurrence of the slips can be suppressed or largely suppressed from occurring.

Technology Classification (CPC): 8