Patent ID: 8263475

Claim:
A method for manufacturing heterostructures for applications in the fields of electronics, optics or opto-electronics, which comprises: providing donor and receiver substrates, providing an oxide layer with a thickness of less than or equal to 25 nanometers on one of the donor substrate, the receiver substrate or on both substrates, forming layer trapping through holes inside the oxide by heat treating the substrate(s) that contains the oxide layer for a sufficient time at a temperature between 900° C. and 1,200° C. under a neutral or reducing atmosphere that contains at least one of argon or hydrogen, bonding the substrates together at a bonding interface with the oxide layer(s) positioned between them, reinforcing the bonding by annealing the substrates at a temperature between 25° C. and 500° C. such that the trapping holes retaining gas species at the bonding interface, and transferring an active layer as a portion of the donor substrate onto the receiver substrate to obtain the heterostructure.