Patent ID: 8865572

Claim:
A method for manipulating dislocations from a semiconductor device, comprising: directing a light-emitting beam locally onto a surface portion of a semiconductor body that includes active regions of the semiconductor device; and manipulating a plurality of dislocations located proximate to the surface portion of the semiconductor body utilizing the light-emitting beam; wherein manipulating the plurality of dislocations comprises directly scanning the plurality of dislocations with the light-emitting beam to manipulate a size of the plurality of dislocations on the surface portion of the semiconductor body by adjusting a temperature of the surface portion of the semiconductor body corresponding to the plurality of dislocations and adjusting a scan speed of the light-emitting beam, wherein manipulating the plurality of dislocations further comprises scanning across the plurality of dislocations with the light-emitting beam such that the plurality of dislocations grow over the length of a scan of the light-emitting beam enabling the removal of threading dislocations from a relaxed strained layer on the semiconductor device.