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A compendium of physical, chemical, material, and mathematical data completes this comprehensive resource. Every major topic is thoroughly covered and every important concept is defined, described, and illustrated. Each cassette typically contains 25 wafers. After soft baking, the photoresist is ready for mask alignment and exposure.

Each mask following the first? At others,a box may be placed around the cross. The choice depends on the type of resist being used at a given mask step. Manual operation of alignment and exposure equipment was used in early fabrication systems. For example, nm 0. With basic manual alignment equipment, the wafer is held on a vacuum chuck and carefully moved into position below the mask using an adjustable x-y stage.

The mask is spaced 25 to ym above the surface of the wafer during alignment. If contact printing is being used, the mask is brought into contact with the wafer after alignment. The marks are used to align each new mask level to one of the previous levels.

A sample set of alignment marks is shown in Fig. For certain mask levels, the cross on the mask is placed in a box on the wafer. For other mask levels, the box on the mask is placed over a cross on the wafer. The choice depends on the type of resist used during a given photolithographic step. Split-field optics are used to simulta- neously align two well-separated areas of the wafer. Photoresist Exposure and Development Following alignment, the photoresist is exposed through the mask with high-intensity ultraviolet light, Resist is exposed wherever silicon dioxide is to be removed.

The photore- sist is developed with a process very similar to that used for developing ordinary photo- graphic film, using a developer supplied by the photoresist manufacturer. Any resist that has been exposed to ultraviolet light is washed away, leaving bare silicon dioxide in the exposed areas of Fig. A photoresist acting in the manner just described is called a positive resist, and the mask contains a copy of the pattern that will remain on the surface of the wafer.

Windows are opened wherever the exposing light passes through the mask. A negative resist remains on the surfa wherever it is exposed. The choice of chemicals depends on the material to Bo etched.

A high degree of selectivity is required so that the etchant will remove the tnprotected barrier layer much more rapidly than it attacks the photoresist layer. At room temperature, HF etches silicon dioxide uch more rapidly than it etches photoresist or silicon. Etch rate is temperature dependent, and temperature is carefully monitored during the etch process In addition, etch rates depend on the type of oxide present. Oxides grown in dry Oxygen etch more slowly than those grown in the presence of water vapor.

High concentrations of these elements convert the SiO, layer to a phosphosilicate or borosilicate glass. LF and water both wet silicon dioxide, but do not wet silicon. The length of the etch process may be controlled by visually monitoring test wafers that are etched along swith the actual IC wafers. Occurrence of a hydrophobic condition on the control wafer signals completion of the etch step. Highly anisotropi etching profiles can be obtained as shown in Fig 2. Dry processes require only sma prnounts of reactant gases, whereas wet etching requires disposal of relatively lare amounts of liquid chemical wastes.

Plasma systems use RF excitation to ionize a variety of source gases in a vacuut system, The RF power source typically operates at a frequency of However, plasma systems can also operate at frequencies as low as a fe hundred kilohertz, and microwave excitation is in use in certain systems.

Standar plasma etching corresponds to the highest of the three pressure regimes, and a conce[ tual drawing for a parallel-plate plasma-etching system in shown in Fig. Free radicals such as fluorine or chlorine are created in tr plasma and react at the wafer surface to etch silicon, silicon dioxide, silicon nitrid Organic materials, and metals.

A sample of possible source gases used to etch the: materials appears in Table 2. Tr basic plasma-etching process is isotropic, and additional atomic species such as argo hydrogen, and oxygen are often introduced to improve etch rate or selectivity.

High anisotropic etching can be obtained, but selectivity is often poor. Metals can be used barrier materials to protect the wafer from etching, Ion milling operates in the lowe of the three pressure ranges given in Table 2. In this case, ions are accelerated towa the surface by a strong electric field that can be introduced by adding a variable exte nal de-bias voltage between the electrodes.

Reactive-ion etching RIE combines the plasma and sputter etching process Plasma systems are used to ionize reactive gases, and the ions are accelerated to bor bard the surface. Etching occurs through a combination of the chemical reaction at momentum transfer from the etching species and is highly anisotropic. The volta; required to accelerate ious from the plasma toward the wafer surface can be deve oped by introducing an asymmetry into the structure of the plasma chamber as inc cated in Fig.

In this drawing, the surface area of the upper electrode is ma: larger than that of the lower electrode, the upper electrode is now grounded, and tt wafer is placed on the electrode driven by the RF source, The physical asymmetry the system produces a self-bias between the electrodes that provides the accelerati potential required to direct the ions toward the wafer surface. Photoresist removal typically uses pr prietary-liquid resist strippers, which cause the resist to swell and lose adhesion to t cubstrate.

Dry processing may also be used to remove resist by oxidizing burning it rt ee naace nften called recict ashing. Plasma Silicon wafer. The abili to reliably measure the fabricated features with the required accuracy and repeatabi ity is itself a major problem, and semiconductor process metrology has emerged as separate discipline of its own that concentrates on the development of the test stru tures and instrumentation required to support high-yield manufacturing.

IC mask begins with a large-scale drawing of each mask. Early photomasks were cut t hand in a material called rubylith, a sandwich of a clear backing layer and a thin red laye of Mylar.

The red layer was cut with a stylus and peeled off, leaving the desired pattern i red. The original rubylith copy of the mask was to 1, times larger than the fin integrated circuit and was photographically reduced to form a reticle for use in a stey and-repeat camera, as described later.

Today, computer graphics systems and optical or electron beam pattern generato have supplanted the use of rubylith. An image of the desired mask is created on a comput sraphics system.

Once the image is complete, files containing the commands needed to driv a pattern generator are created, An optical pattern generator uses a flash lamp to expose tk series of rectangles composing the mask image directly onto a photographic plate called tk reticle. An electron beam system draws the pattern directly in an electron-sensitive materi Reticle images range from 1 to 10 times final size, A step-and-repeat camera used to reduce the reticle image to its final size and to expose a two-dimensional arrz of images on a master copy of the final mask, On a mm wafer, it is possible to a1 approximately 1, copies of a S-mm x 5-mm IC chip!

The mask image is transferred to photoresist, which is used « an etch mask for the chrome. Working emulsion masks are then produced from tt chrome master. Each time a mask is brought into contact with the surface of the silicc wafer, the pattern can be damaged.

Therefore, emulsion masks can only be used for few exposures before they are thrown away. In proximity printing, tk mask is brought in very close proximity to the wafer, but does not come in contact wit the wafer during exposure, thus preventing damage to the mask. Projection printing us a dual-lens system to project a portion of the mask image onto the wafer surface.

Tk wafer and masks may be scanned, or the system may operate in a step-and-repeat mod The actual mask and lenses are mounted many centimeters from the wafer surface. For large-diameter wafers it is impossible to achieve uniform exposure and to main- tain alignment between mask levels across the complete wafer, particularly for submicron feature sizes.

High-resolution VLSI lithography systems now use some form of exposure of the individual die pattern directly onto the wafer. A projection system is used with a reticle to expose the IC die pattern directly on the wafer. No step-and-repeat masks of the circuit are produced. The pattern is aligned and exposed separately at each die site.

Copyright, , Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated. Reprinted by permission from Ref. A single die image is projected directly onto the surface of the wafer. The reticle pattern may range from 1 to 10 times the final die size, The wafer is moved stepped from die site to die site on the wafer, and the pattern is aligned and exposed at each individual site. The drawing in Fig. These systems are often housed in their own environmentally controlled sections of clean rooms.

The step-and-scan method projects only a narrow rectangular stripe of the reticle image onto the wafer. The wafer and the reticle are scanned in tandem until the com- plete reticle pattern is transferred to the wafer. The wafer is then indexed to the next site, and the process of alignment and scanning proceeds again. Large die images or multiple dice can be patterned using this technique. A typical emission spectra from a Hg-Xe lamp is given in Fig.

Output is relatively low in the deep ultraviolet DUV region nm , but exhibits several strong peaks in the UV region between and nm. To minimize problems in the lens optics, the lamp output must be filtered to select one of the spectral components. Excimer lasers are the choice at these wavelengths with the KrF laser used as the nm source and AF for nm. It is not clear what the lithography source will be for technology generations of below nm.

Phase-shifting mask technology is representative of the inventions that have been found in the drive to squeeze the most out of optical lithography. The conceptual diagram in Fig. In Fig. For highly complex IC patterns, however, designing the phase-shifting masks represents a significant challenge. Various alternatives to optical lithography have been explored since the mid s. Electron beams can be focused to spots of the order of 0.

However, this process is relatively slow, since the pattern must be rewritten at each die site, and the throughput of electron-beam systems has never been sufficient for IC manufacturing.

X-rays with energies in the 0. Thus, even the finest feature sizes in Table 2. In addition to mask fabrication, x-ray lithography also requires a new set of illumination, resist, and alignment technologies. Research efforts continue to expand the capabilities of electron-beam and x-ray lithography as outlined in Table 2. Extreme ultraviolet [10], e-beam direct write, e-beam projection, x-ray proximity, and ion-beam projection all offer potential for future lithography systems, However, significant innovation will be required along the wav to achieve the ITRS goals.

Optical Microscopy Optical microscopes are a common laboratory tool familiar to most of us, and they are used to inspect and monitor the wafers throughout the fabrication process. The resolu- tion of an optical microscope corresponds to the minimum feature size introduced in Section 2.

Using white light for illumination with wavelengths centered on 0. On the other hand, the resolution of the human eye itself is approximately 0. Hence, optical microscopes typically have a maximum magnification of 1,X. The lower end of the magnification range is usually 1X-5X. Bright-field operation is the mode that we most often encounter.

The sampl illuminated by light perpendicular to the plane of the sample directly through the optics of the microscope. Light is reflected from the sample back up into same optical path in the microscope. For dark-field mode, the sample is illuminated from an oblique angle, and light that is reflected or refracted from features on the surface of the sample enters by the microscope lens system.

The surface of the sample appears mostly dark with the surface features standing out in bright contrast against the dark background. The incident electron beam causes low-energy eV secondary electrons to be ejected from the inner shells of the atoms making up the surface of the sample under analysis. An image is formed by scan- ning the surface of the sample and recording the intensity of the secondary electron current.

The magnitude of the secondary electron current depends upon the materials present and on the curvature of the surface, and significant contrast can be achieved due to varying surface morphology and materials. The SEM extends the minimum res- olution limit to A, with magnifications up to , At a magnification of 10,, the SEM provides a depth of field of um, which makes it an extremely use- ful tool for investigating VLSI structures. The image is a micro-mirror that has been raised out of the surface plane by a gear-driven linear actuator.

Some types of SEMs can suffer from electrical charge-up of the sample by the electron beam, particularly on insulating surfaces. This can be eliminated by coating the surface with a thin conducting layer of gold. However, this requires special process- ing of samples prior to their imaging by the SEM.

In this instrument, a KeV beam of electrons is used to illuminate a thin sample only 0. The amplitude of the electron current that passes through the sample is detected, and an image is created as the beam scans the sample. In a MOS structure, for example, the TEM can display an image of the transition from the regular array of atoms in the silicon lattice to the irregular amorphous layer of the silicon dioxide gate insulator as depicted in Fig.

Although the TEM provides very high resolution, its application requires special preparation of the extremely thin samples. The resist protects portions of the surface while windows are etched in barrier layers such as silicon dioxide, silicon nitride, or metal. The windows may be etched using either wet- or dry-processing techniques. Ona Jocal atomic scale, thickness variations of 23 A are found which are a direct result of atomic silicon steps at both interfaces Copyright by International Business Machines Corporation; reprinted with permission from Ref 9 dimensions.

Dry etching can yield highly anisotropic etching profiles and is required in most VLSI processing. After etching, impurities can be introduced into the wafer through the windows using ion implantation or high-temperature diffusion, or metal can be deposited on the surface making contact with the silicon through the etched windows. Masking opera- tions are performed over and over during IC processing, and the number of mask steps required is used as a basic measure of process complexity.

Reticles 1 to 10 times final size are made from this computer image, using optical pattern generators or electron-beam systems. Step-and-repeat cameras are used to fabricate final masks from the reticles, or direct step-on-wafer sys- tems may be used to transfer the patterns directly to the wafer.

Today, we are reaching the limits of optical lithography. Present equipment can define windows that are approximately 0. Just a few years ago, experts were predicting that pm would be the limit! The wavelength of light is too long to produce much smaller geometrical features, because of fringing and interference effects.

Electron-beam and X-ray lithography are now being used to fabricate devices with geometrical features smaller than 0. Nonogaki, T. Ueno, and T. New York, F Thompson, C. Wilson, and M. Sze, Ed. Kem and D. Research and Development, vol.

McClay and A. Einspruch, Ed. Doane, D. Fraser, and D. Watts and J. Newman, Ed. The mask set for a simple rectangular pn junction diode is shown in Fig. Draw a set of alignment marks suitable for use with the alignment sequence of Problem 2. In Table 2. What is the value of DF corresponding to your value of NA? Based upon the discussion in Section 2. This native silicon dioxide film is a high-quality electrical insulator and can be used as a barrier material during impurity deposition.

These two properties of silicon diox- ide were the primary process factors leading to silicon becoming the dominant mater- ial in use today for the fabrication of integrated circuits. This chapter discusses the theory of oxide growth, the oxide growth processes, factors affecting oxide growth rate, impurity redistribution during oxidation, and techniques for selective oxidation of sili- con.

Methods for determining the thickness of the oxide film are also presented, and the SUPREM process simulation software is introduced. Both water vapor and oxygen move diffuse easily through silicon dioxide at these high temperatures, See Fig.

Oxygen arriving at the silicon surface can then combine with silicon to form silicon dioxide. Silicon is consumed as the oxide grows, and the resulting oxide expands during growth, as shown in Fig. The oxide expands to filla region approxi- 0.

The exact percentages depend on the density of, the oxide. Original surface 3. As the oxide grows, oxygen must pass through more and more oxide, and the growth rate decreases as time goes on. A simple mode! Modeling Oxidation 45 oxygen diffuses through the existing oxide layer. The negative sign indicates that particles tend to move from a region of high concentration to a region of low concentration.

For our case of silicon oxidation, we will make the approximation that the oxy- gen flux passing through the oxide in Fig. Oxygen does not accumulate in the oxide.

Eliminating N, using Eqs. X, is the thick: ness of the silicon dioxide layer at any time 1. Jis the constant flux of oxygen diffusing through the layer. Note that the oxide growth occurs at the sil- Distance from surface, x icon interface. X, is the initial thickness of oxide on the wafer, and 7 represents the time which would have been required to grow the initial oxide.

A thin native oxide layer 10 to 20 A is always present on silicon due to atmospheric oxidation, or X; may represent a thicker oxide grown during previous oxidation steps. Solving Eq. Oxide growth is proportional to the square root of time, and B is called the parabolic rate constant. The oxidation rate is diffusion limited in this region.

Figures 3. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, The Electrochemical Society, Inc. TABLE 3. Thus, a nonzero value for 7 must be used in Eq. Graphs of oxide growth versus time, calculated using the values from Table 3. Equation 3. A number of other factors affect the oxidation rate, including wet and dry oxida- tion, pressure, crystal orientation, and impurity doping.

Water vapor has a much higher solubility than oxygen in silicon dioxide, which accounts for the much higher oxide growth rate in a wet atmosphere. Slower growth results in a denser, higher quality oxide and is usually used for MOS gate oxides. More rapid growth in wet oxygen is used for thicker masking layers. No is proportional to the partial pressure of the oxidizing species, so pressure can be used to control oxide growth rate.

There is great interest in developing low-temperature processes for VLSI fabrication. High pressure is being used to increase oxidation rates at low temperatures.

In addition, very thin oxides 50 to A are required for VLSI, and low-pressure oxidation is being investigated as a means of achieving controlled growth of very thin oxides. The crystal orientation changes the number of silicon bonds available at the silicon surface, which influences the oxide growth rate and qual- ity of the sikcon-silicon dioxide interface.

Oxide thickness mm Silicon 3. The same oxidation in wet oxygen will yield a film A 0. Example 3. How long will it take to grow an additional A of oxide? Solve this problem graphically using Figs. The total oxide at the end of the oxidation would be 0. If there were no oxide on the surface, it would take 1. However, there is already a 0. The time required to grow the additional 0. Using these values and an initial oxide thickness of 0. Of course, the graphical results depend on our ability to interpolate logarithmic scales!

Heavy doping of silicon also changes its oxidation characteristics. Phosphorus doping increases the linear rate constant without altering the parabolic rate constant.

Boron doping, on the other hand, increases the parabolic rate constant but has little effect on the linear rate constant. These effects are related to impurity redistribution during oxidation, which is discussed in the next section. Boron and gallium tend to be depleted from the sur- face, whereas phosphorus, arsenic, and antimony pile up at the surface.

Impurity depletion and pileup depend on both the diffusion coefficient and the segregation coefficient of the impurity in the oxide. The segregation coefficient m is equal to the ratio of the equilibrium concentration of the impurity in silicon to that of the impurity in the oxide.

Various possibilities are depicted in Fig. The value of m for boron is temperature dependent and is less than 0. Boron also diffuses slowly through SiO,. Thus, boron is depleted from the silicon surface and remains in the oxide. The presence of hydrogen during oxide growth or impurity diffusion greatly enhances the diffusion of boron through oxide, resulting in enhanced depletion of boron at the silicon surface.

These elements are rejected by the oxide, and they diffuse slowly in the oxide, resulting in pileup at the silicon surface. In contrast, gallium has a segregation coefficient of 20, but it diffuses very rapidly through silicon dioxide. This combination causes gallium to deplete at the surface, as shown in Fig. The diffusivities of antimony, arsenic, boron, and phosphorus in silicon dioxide are all orders of magnitude smaller than their cor- responding values in silicon.

Thus, SiO, films can be used effectively as a barrier layer to these elements. Relatively deep diffusion can take place in unprotected regions of silicon, whereas no significant impurity penetration will occur in regions covered by silicon dioxide. Note that silicon dioxide is much more effective in masking boron than in masking phosphorus. Arsenic and anti- mony diffuse more slowly than phosphorus, so an oxide thick enough to mask phos- phorus is also sufficient to mask arsenic and antimony.

Masking oxide thicknesses of 0. As mentioned earlier, the presence of hydrogen greatly enhances the boron diffusivity. Wet oxidation releases hydrogen, and care must be taken to avoid boron diffusion in the presence of water vapor. However, silicon nitride can be used effectively to prevent diffusion of these impurities.

The furnace walls may be made of quartz, polycrystalline silicon, or silicon carbide and are specially fabricated to prevent sodium contamination during oxidation. The orientation results in the smallest number of unsatisfied silicon bonds. In addi- tion, a substantial level of positive fixed oxide exists at the Si-SiO, interface. NMOS devices tend to become depletion-mode devices.

PMOS devices remain enhancement-mode devices, but have more negative threshold voltages. As the industry was able to improve overall oxide quality, NMOS processes became dominant because of the mobility advantage of electrons over holes.

Tt was discovered that the effects of sodium contamination can be greatly reduced by adding chlorine during oxidation.

Chlorine is incorporated into the oxide and immobilizes the sodium ions. Gaseous chlorine, oxygen, or nitrogen can also be bub- bled through trichloroethylene C;HCI,.

It should also be noted that the presence of chlorine during dry oxidation results in an increase in both the linear and parabolic rate constants. The ability to selectively oxidize the silicon surface has become very important in high-density bipolar and MOS processes.

Selective oxi- dation processes result in improved device packing density and more planar final structures. The techniques utilized for localized oxidation of silicon are generally referred to as LOCOS processes. Oxygen and water vapor do not diffuse well through silicon nitride. Figure 3. A thin layer 10 to 20 nm of silicon dioxide is first grown on the wafer to protect the silicon surface.

Next, a layer of silicon nitride is deposited over the surface and patterned using photolithography. The wafer then goes through a thermal oxidation step. Oxide grows wherever the wafer is not protected by silicon nitride. This process results in the so-called semirecessed oxide structure. Some oxide growth occurs under the edges of the nitride and causes the nitride to bend up at the edges of the masked area. A fully recessed oxide can be formed by etching the silicon prior to oxidation.

However, subsequent processing reduces the advantage of this process over the semi- recessed version, and most processes today use some form of semirecessed oxidation. Lithography is used to define openings in the nitride where trenches will be formed. The trenches are etched using reactive-ion etching and can be quite deep with very high aspect ratios. The surface of the trench is passivated with a thin layer of thermally grown oxide, and then the trench is refilled with deposited polysilicon.

The final struc- ture is produced by etching back any excess polysilicon, using a lithography step to remove the nitride layer where oxidation is desired, and growing the semirecessed oxide layer.

The polysilicon may be doped, and similar structures are used to form trench capacitors for use as storage elements in some DRAM technologies [19]. The capacitor is formed between the polysilicon and the substrate, and the trenches may be as much as ym in depth.

A shallow trench with tapered sidewalls is etched in the silicon fol- lowing patterning of the nitride layer. The pad oxide may be etched away slightly to round the corners of the final structure. A thin oxide layer is grown as a liner on the trench walls, and the trench is then filled with an oxide deposited using decomposi- tion of TEOS or via a high-density plasma deposition.

In the final step, the nitride may be removed, leaving the shallow trench isolation between two silicon regions. Chemical Mechanical Polishing CMP CMP [] was introduced into fabrication processing during the early s and is now widely used in both bipolar and MOS processes to achieve the highly planar topologies required in deep submicron lithography. A conceptual diagram of a CMP apparatus is given in Fig. The wafer is mounted on a carrier and is brought into contact with a polishing pad mounted on a rotating platen.

A liquid slurry is continuously dispensed onto the surface of the polishing pad. A combination of the vertical force between the wafer and the abrasive pad as well as the chemical action of the slurry is used to polish the surface to a highly planar state.

In the case of formation of the shallow trenches, the nitride layer serves as a polishing stop. Polishing terminates when the nitride layer is fully exposed.

Some ero- sion of the nitride layer may also occur prior to process endpoint detection. Copyright IEEE. Reprinted with permission from Ret. When a wafer is illuminated with white light perpendicular to the surface, the light penetrates the oxide film and is reflected by the underlying silicon wafer. Reprinted with permission from Ref. First-level copper is connected by Tungsten studs to Tungsten local interconnect.

Copyright IBEE. Reprinted with permission from Ref 24]. Constructive interference occurs when the path length in the oxide 2X, is equal to an integer multiple of one wavelength of light in the oxide. Color-chart comparisons are quite subjective, and the colors vary periodically with thickness. In addition, care must be exercised to determine the color from a posi- tion perpendicular to the wafer.

The color chart Table 3. Light is reflected from both the oxide and silicon surfaces. The differences in polarization are measured, and the oxide thickness can then be calculated [17]. The oxide is partially etched from the surface of a test wafer to expose a step between the wafer and oxide surfaces.

A stylus is mechanically scanned over the surface of the wafer, and thickness variations are recorded by a computer. Films ranging from less than 0. At the same time, experimental examination and characterization of the structures is a difficult and time-consuming task in deep submicron fabrication. For these reasons, computer sim- ulation continues to grow in importance throughout the VLSI fabrication process.

Sophisticated computer programs that can predict the results of various fabrication steps have been available for many years []. The detailed structures resulting from etching and recessed oxidation can also be simulated. Other programs have been developed to model lithography processes such as photoresist exposure and development.

The use of SUPREM requires specification of the process steps including times, temperature profiles, and other ambient conditions for oxidation, dif- fusion, ion implantation, film deposition, and etching. The program can model the one- and two-dimensional structures resulting from oxidation, as well as predicting the impurity profiles in the substrate, oxide, and polysilicon layers.

The input listing describes a complex dry-wet-dry oxidation cycle, including the ramp-up of thie furnace from one temperature to another and various ambient gas conditions at different steps in the oxidation cycle.

The output data includes the oxide thickness and impurity dose in the oxide. Graphical output of the data is shown in Fig. Incorporation of boron in the oxide and its depletion from the substrate are both clearly evident in the plotted results. The width of the oxide agroes well with a sim- ple estimate from Fig. In addition, this layer can serve as a barrier layer during subsequent impurity- diffusion process steps.

These two factors have allowed silicon to become the dominant semiconductor material in use today. Thicker layers of silicon dioxide are conveniently grown in high- temperature oxidation furnaces using both wet and dry oxygen.

Oxidation occurs much more rapidly in wet oxygen than in dry oxygen. However, the dry-oxygen envi- ronment produces a higher quality oxide and is usually used for the growth of MOS gate oxides. Thin oxides grow in direct proportion to time. Oxide cleanness is extremely important for MOS processes, and great care is, exercised to prevent sodium contamination of the oxide. The addition of chlorine dur- ing oxidation improves oxide quality.

Finally, oxidation alters the impurity distribution at the surface of the silicon wafer. Boron tends to be depleted from the silicon surface, whereas phosphorus tends to pile up at the silicon surface. Oxidation thickness can be accurately measured using ellipsometers, interfer- ence microscopes, and mechanical surface profilers or can be estimated from the apparent color of the oxide under vertical illumination with white light.

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