Patent ID: 7595499

Claim:
A system for forming a strained layer of semiconductor material, the system comprising: a non-deformable surface region having a first predetermined radius of curvature, the first predetermined radius of curvature being defined by R( 1 ) and being defined normal to the surface region; a first substrate having a first thickness, the first substrate having a face, a backside, and a cleave plane within the first thickness, the first substrate overlying the backside of the first substrate on a portion of the surface region having the predetermined radius of curvature to cause a first bend within the thickness of material to form a first strain within a portion of the first thickness; a second substrate having a second thickness, the second substrate having a face and a backside, the second substrate overlying the face of the second substrate on a portion of the face of the first substrate to cause a second bend within the thickness of material to form a second strain within a portion of the second thickness, whereupon the face of the second substrate is joined to the face of the first substrate to form a sandwich structure while maintaining the first bend in the first substrate and the second bend in the second substrate; whereupon the first substrate includes a portion of a thickness that is released along a vicinity of the cleave plane to free the portion of the thickness of material from a remaining portion of the first substrate while being attached to the second substrate and the thickness of material conforms to a shape of the second substrate as a radius of curvature on the second substrate approaches a second predetermined radius (R 2 ) of curvature thereby increasing a magnitude of a strain from the first strain to a third strain within the thickness of material as the thickness of conforms in shape to the second substrate as the radius of curvature on the first substrate approaches the second predetermined radius of curvature.