PROCESS FOR IMPROVING THE SURFACE ROUGHNESS OF A WAFER

摘要

The present invention relates to a process for reducing the roughness of the free surface of a semiconductor wafer, said process comprising a single annealing step for smoothing said free surface, said single annealing step being carried out as a RTA under an atmosphere of pure argon, characterized in that before the RTA the atmosphere of the annealing environment is purged in a controlled manner so as to establish a controlled purged atmosphere allowing reduction of preliminary pollutants on the wafer.