| 摘要 |
A variety of methods are applicable to production of semiconductor devices in which the active layer is produced in a denuded zone which is thin and free of defects. This denuded zone in combination with a high concentration of crystalline defects contained in a deep layer of the semiconductor device, allows the semiconductor device to enjoy the function of the intrinsic gettering effect. A variety of improvements, including a decrease in the overall production time, removal of limitations due to the oxygen concentration of a wafer, etc. is realized by introducing an idea that the annealing temperature is increased and/or decreased gradually at a predetermined rate. A variety of such improved annealing processes being combined with each other and/or to a variety of conventional annealing processes, aiming at a higher magnitude of the intrinsic gettering effect. This improvement is further modified to be combined with epitaxy to diversify the uses of a denuded zone.
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