IP Library Granted Patent US 11,756,827
Granted Patent B2
US 11,756,827 · App. 17/725,232 · Granted Sep 12, 2023

Structure manufacturing method and manufacturing device, and light irradiation device

Inventors: Fumimasa Horikiri (Hitachi, JP); Noboru Fukuhara (Hitachi, JP)
Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
H01L21/76825H01L21/02019H01L21/308
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Patent No.
US 11,756,827
App. No.
17/725,232
Granted
Sep 12, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

There is provided a structure manufacturing method, including: preparing a wafer at least whose surface comprises Group III nitride crystal in a state of being immersed in an etching solution containing peroxodisulfate ions; and irradiating the surface of the wafer with light through the etching solution; wherein the group III nitride crystal has a composition in which a wavelength corresponding to a band gap is 310 nm or more, and during irradiation of the light, the surface of the wafer is irradiated with a first light having a wavelength of 200 nm or more and less than 310 nm under a first irradiation condition, and is irradiated with a second light having a wavelength of 310 nm or more and less than a wavelength corresponding to the band gap under a second irradiation condition controlled independently of the first irradiation condition.

Claims (13)

1. A structure manufacturing method, comprising:

preparing a wafer at least whose surface comprises Group III nitride crystal in a state of being immersed in an etching solution containing peroxodisulfate ions; and

irradiating the surface of the wafer with light through the etching solution;

wherein the group III nitride crystal has a composition in which holes are generated when irradiated with a light having a wavelength of 310 nm or more, and

during irradiation of the light, the surface of the wafer is irradiated with chopped light having a wavelength of 310 nm or more and having a wavelength that causes the holes to be generated in the Group III nitride crystal, through the etching solution in which SO 4 − * radicals are generated, under a chopping condition controlled independently of the SO 4 − * radical generation condition.

2. The structure manufacturing method according to claim 1 , wherein during irradiation of the light, the method comprises alternately repeating:

generating an oxide of a Group III element contained in the Group III nitride crystal in an irradiation period of the chopped light on the surface of the wafer; and

dissolving the oxide generated in the irradiation period, in a non-irradiation period of the chopped light on the surface of the wafer.

3. A structure manufacturing device, comprising:

a container that stores a wafer at least whose surface comprises Group III nitride crystal in a state of being immersed in an etching solution containing peroxodisulfate ions; and

a light irradiation device that irradiates the surface of the wafer with light through the etching solution;

wherein the Group III nitride crystal has a composition in which holes are generated when irradiated with a light having a wavelength of 310 nm or more, and

the light irradiation device irradiates the surface of the wafer with chopped light having a wavelength of 310 nm or more and having a wavelength that causes the holes to be generated in the Group III nitride crystal through the etching solution in which SO 4 − * radicals are generated, under a chopping condition controlled independently of the SO 4 − * radical generation condition.

Assignments (1)
MERGER Recorded Nov 17, 2022
From: SCIOCS COMPANY LIMITED
To: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
Reel/Frame 061961/0204 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2018-230995 · Dec 10, 2018 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 17311887
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