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- the present invention relates to nano wires and a method of manufacturing the same, and more particularly, to nano wires made by accurately controlling regions of a silicon substrate on which the nano wires are formed and sizes of the nano wires, and a method of manufacturing the same.
- Nano wires are currently being widely researched, and are a next-generation technology used in various devices such as optical devices, transistors, and memory devices.
- Materials used in conventional nano wires include silicon, tin oxide, and gallium nitride, which is a light emitting semiconductor.
- the conventional nano wire manufacturing technique is sufficiently developed to be used for altering of the length and width of nano wires.
- Nano light emitting devices using quantum dots are used in conventional nano light emitting devices.
- Organic EL devices using quantum dots have high radiative recombination efficiency but low carrier injection efficiency.
- GaN LEDs, which use quantum wells, have relatively high radiative recombination efficiency and carrier injection efficiency.
- it is very difficult to mass produce GaN LED due to a defect caused by the difference in the crystallization structures of the GaN LED and a commonly used sapphire substrate, and thus the manufacturing costs of GaN LEDs are relatively high.
- a nano light emitting device using nano wires has very high radiative recombination efficiency and relatively high carrier injection efficiency.
- the manufacturing process of a nano light emitting device is simple and a nano light emitting device can be formed to have a crystallization structure that is practically identical to that of a substrate, and thus it is easy to mass produce the nano light emitting device.
- FIGS. 1A through 1D are cross-sectional views illustrating a vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) method, which is a conventional method of manufacturing nano wires.
- VLS vapor-liquid-solid
- the substrate 11 is a commonly used silicon substrate.
- a metal layer 12 is formed on top of the substrate 11 by spreading a metal such as Au.
- the resultant structure is thermally processed at approximately 500° C.
- materials in the metal layer 12 are agglomerated, thereby forming catalysts 13 .
- the sizes of the catalysts 13 are irregular, that is, they have random sizes.
- nano wires 14 are formed with the catalysts 13 as nucleation regions.
- silane SiH 4
- SiH 4 which is a compound of silicon and hydrogen
- the growth of the nano wires 14 formed at the lower portion of the catalysts 13 and having a desired length can be controlled by controlling the amount of supplied silane, as illustrated in FIG. 1D .
- nano wires with desired lengths can be easily formed by appropriately controlling the amount of supplied material gas such as silane.
- the growth of nano wires can be limited by the diameters and distribution of the catalysts, and thus it is difficult to accurately control the thicknesses, locations, and distribution of nano wires.
- the nano wires can be formed only perpendicular to a substrate using the method described above, and thus a technique to form nano wires parallel to the substrate is required.
- the present invention provides a method of manufacturing nano wires which are grown by controlling the diameters and distribution of nucleation regions for forming the nano wires, and nano wires accurately grown using the method.
- the present invention also provides nano wires that have a p-n junction structure and that are formed to an accurate size, and a method of manufacturing the same.
- a method of manufacturing nano wires includes: stacking a mask layer on a substrate, and patterning the mask layer into stripes; and performing an oxygen ion injection process on the substrate and the mask layer to form oxygen ion injection regions in the substrate, thereby forming nano wire regions embedded in the substrate and separated from the substrate by the oxygen ion injection regions.
- the stacking of the mask layer may include: forming a photoresist layer by coating a photoresist on top of the substrate, and the patterning the mask layer into stripes may include: patterning the photoresist layer.
- the stacking of the mask layer may include: forming a photoresist layer by coating a photoresist on top of the substrate; and the patterning the mask layer into stripes may include: patterning the photoresist layer by placing a striped grating over the photoresist layer and emitting a laser thereon; and performing a thermal process on the patterned photoresist layer to form the mask layer.
- the method further includes: controlling the sizes of the nano wires by performing an oxidizing process on a surface of the substrate and the nano wire regions to form an oxidation layer on the surface of the substrate and the nano wire regions.
- the substrate may be a silicon substrate.
- a method of manufacturing nano wires having a p-n junction structure includes: stacking a mask layer on top of a substrate doped with a first impurity, and patterning the mask layer into stripes; performing an oxygen ion injection process on the substrate and the mask layer to form oxygen ion injection regions in the substrate, thereby forming nano wire regions embedded in the substrate and separated from the substrate by the oxygen ion injection regions; and forming a second impurity region contacting a first impurity region in each of the nano wires by disposing a third mask layer over some regions of the substrate and the mask layer and doping with a second impurity.
- the method may further include: forming a first electrode contacting the first impurity region and a second electrode contacting the second impurity region by spreading a conductive material on the substrate after removing the mask layer.
- a nano wire structure including: a substrate; nano wires formed in stripes in the substrate; and oxygen ion injection regions formed at a border between the substrate and the nano wires to separate the substrate and the nano wires.
- a nano wires having a p-n junction structure include: a substrate doped with a first impurity; nano wires formed in stripes in the substrate with first and second impurity regions; oxygen ion injection regions formed at a border between the substrate and the nano wires to separate the substrate and the nano wires; and a first electrode that contacts the first impurity region and is formed on the substrate, and a second electrode that contacts the second impurity region and is formed on the substrate.
- FIGS. 1A through 1D are cross-sectional views illustrating a conventional method of manufacturing nano wires
- FIGS. 2A through 2E are cross-sectional views illustrating a method of manufacturing nano wires according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIGS. 3A through 3E are cross-sectional views illustrating a method of manufacturing nano wires according to another embodiment of the present invention.
- FIGS. 4A through 4F are views illustrating a method of forming a p-n structure with the nano wires manufactured using the method illustrated in FIGS. 1A through 2E or FIGS. 3A through 3E according to the first and second embodiments according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- Nano wires and a method of manufacturing the same according to the present invention will now be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which exemplary embodiments of the invention are shown.
- the lengths and sizes of layers are exaggerated for clarity.
- FIGS. 2A through 2E are cross-sectional views illustrating a method of manufacturing nano wires according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- a photoresist material is coated to a thickness of several to tens of nm on a substrate 21 to form a photoresist layer 22 .
- the substrate 21 is a commonly used silicon substrate.
- the photoresist layer 22 is patterned into stripes on the substrate 21 on which the photoresist layer 22 is formed, and the resultant structure is heated to near the melting point of the material of the photoresist layer 11 . Then, each of the stripes of the photoresist layer 22 can be formed to have a semicircular cross section. Consequently, a mask layer 23 composed of stripes having semi circular cross sections can be formed.
- an implantation process in which oxygen is ion injected into the substrate 21 is performed.
- the oxygen ion injection energy can be selectively controlled in the range from 1 to 100 keV.
- an oxygen concentration of 5 ⁇ 10 17 to 3 ⁇ 10 18 /cm 2 may be used, as in separation by implantation of oxygen (SIMOX).
- SIMOX separation by implantation of oxygen
- a deeper ion injection region can be formed in portions of the substrate 21 where the ions are injected directly into the substrate 21 than in portions of the substrate 21 where the ions are injected via the mask layer 23 . That is, oxygen ion injection regions 24 are affected by the shape of the cross section of the mask layer 23 , as illustrated in FIG.
- the shape of the oxygen ion injection regions 24 can be controlled according to the shape and thickness of the mask layer 23 or by adjusting ion injection time.
- the mask layer 23 is removed and an oxidizing process is performed on a top surface of the substrate 21 under an oxygen atmosphere.
- the oxidation process is optional, and can be performed to control the sizes of the oxygen ion injection regions 24 . It was described that the shape of the mask layer 23 and ion injection process condition can be controlled to control the size and shape of the oxygen ion injection regions 24 with reference to FIG. 2C .
- an oxidizing process can be further performed to the substrate 21 . As illustrated in FIG. 2D , when the oxidizing process is performed to the substrate 21 , an oxidation layer 25 is formed on the substrate 21 and the depth of the oxygen ion injection regions 24 decreases.
- nano wire 26 regions embedded in the substrate 21 can be obtained.
- the nano wires 26 can be separated by the substrate 21 and the oxygen ion injection regions 24 .
- the shapes and widths of the nano wires 26 are controlled by controlling the shape of the mask layer 23 , the oxygen ion injection process, and the range of the thickness of the oxidation layer 25 , as described with reference to FIGS. 2C and 2D .
- FIGS. 3A through 3E are cross-sectional views illustrating a method of manufacturing nano wires according to another embodiment of the present invention.
- a photoresist material is coated to a thickness of tens of nm on a substrate 31 to form a photoresist layer 32 .
- the substrate 31 is a commonly used silicon substrate.
- a striped grating 33 is disposed above the substrate 31 on which the photoresist layer 32 is formed and the photoresist layer 32 is patterned using a laser.
- the patterning process may be similar to that used to make a grating of a DFB-laser.
- a solid laser or a gas laser is used. Regions of the photoresist layer 32 on which the laser is emitted during the patterning process are removed. Thus, the stripes of the photoresist layer 32 have trapezoidal cross-sections.
- a separate heating process as illustrated in FIG. 2B is not performed in the present embodiment.
- an implantation process in which oxygen is ion injected into the substrate 31 is performed. If the ion injection energy of the oxygen that is ion injected is uniformly controlled, oxygen ion injection regions 34 are formed deeper where the oxygen is injected directed into the substrate 31 than when the oxygen is injected into the substrate 31 via the photoresist layer 32 . Consequently, the oxygen ion injection regions 34 are affected by the cross-sections of the photoresist layer 32 and are trapezoidals, as illustrated in FIG. 3C . Of course, the depths of the oxygen ion injection regions 34 can be increased if the ion injection energy, which can be controlled, is increased.
- the photoresist layer 32 is removed, and an oxidizing process is performed on the top surface of the substrate 31 under an oxygen atmosphere.
- the objective of the oxidizing process is the same as described with reference to FIG. 2D , to control the depth of the oxygen ion injection regions 34 , and the depth of a formed oxidation layer can be controlled.
- nano wires 36 embedded in the substrate 31 can be obtained.
- the nano wires 36 are separated by the oxygen ion injection regions 34 , and are composed of the same material as the substrate 31 .
- the nano wires 36 are formed during the oxygen ion injection process like the nano wires 26 and 36 illustrated in FIGS. 2C and 3C . That is, the oxygen ion injection regions 24 and 34 are respectively formed in the substrates 21 and 31 during the oxygen ion injection process, and regions separated from the substrates 21 and 31 are formed.
- the forming of the mask layer 23 or the removing of the photoresist layer 32 and the oxidizing process that are performed after the oxygen ion injection regions 24 and 34 are formed are optional processes. Particularly, it should be kept in mind that the oxidizing process is an optional process for controlling the sizes of the nano wires 26 and 36 .
- Nano wires having a p-n structure according to an embodiment of the present invention will now be described with reference to FIGS. 4A through 4F below.
- FIG. 4A is a cross-section of a portion of a sample in which the oxygen ion injection region 34 formed during the oxygen ion injection process illustrated in FIG. 3C and the nano wire 36 are formed. The same process can be applied to a sample illustrated in FIG. 2C .
- FIG. 4B is a perspective view of the sample illustrated in FIG. 4A .
- the oxygen ion injection region 34 is formed in the substrate 31 made of, for example, silicon, which is commonly used in a semiconductor process, and a nano wire 36 separated from the substrate 31 by the oxygen ion injection region 34 is formed.
- the substrate 31 is made of silicon
- silicon nano wires are formed in the substrate 31 parallel to the substrate 31 .
- the photoresist layers 32 patterned to have trapezoidal cross-sections are formed on top of the substrate 31 .
- the nano wire 36 is also doped with a p- or n-type impurity. Therefore, the substrate 31 and the nano wire 36 can be doped with a first impurity.
- a mask 37 is disposed above the substrate 31 , and a second impurity is doped into the structure.
- the second impurity used here can be any material used in a general semiconductor process.
- FIG. 4E is a plane view of the sample illustrated in FIG. 4D .
- a single nano wire 36 has a p-n structure in which a first impurity region 36 a and a second impurity region 36 b are formed.
- a nano wire region is formed in the substrate 31 , and the substrate 31 and the nano wire 36 are structurally separated from each other by the oxygen ion injection region 34 .
- the nano wire is divided into the first impurity region 36 a and the second impurity region 36 b.
- a first electrode 39 is formed by coating a conductive material on the substrate 31 so that the first electrode 37 contacts the first impurity region 36 a
- a second electrode 38 is formed by coating a conductive material on the substrate 31 so that the second electrode 38 contacts the second impurity region 36 b .
- a p-n junction semiconductor device can be obtained.
- the present invention has the following advantages.
- the application range of the nano wires of the present invention is very wide since the nano wires are embedded in a substrate, unlike conventional nano wires, which are formed perpendicular to a substrate.
- a process of forming nano wires having a p-n junction structure to apply the nano wires in the devices can be easily performed.
- the process itself is simplified since a MOS-FET is not used, and a conventional semiconductor processing technique can be used.
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The present invention provides a method of manufacturing nano wires and nano wires having a p-n junction structure. The method includes: stacking a mask layer on a substrate; patterning the mask layer into stripes; and performing an oxygen ion injection process on the substrate and the mask layer to form oxygen ion injection regions in the substrate, thereby forming nano wire regions embedded in the substrate and separated from the substrate by the oxygen ion injection regions.
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- This application claims the priority of Korean Patent Application No. 10-2005-0016185, filed on Feb. 28, 2005 in the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein in its entirety by reference.
- 1. Field of the Invention
- The present invention relates to nano wires and a method of manufacturing the same, and more particularly, to nano wires made by accurately controlling regions of a silicon substrate on which the nano wires are formed and sizes of the nano wires, and a method of manufacturing the same.
- 2. Description of the Related Art
- Nano wires are currently being widely researched, and are a next-generation technology used in various devices such as optical devices, transistors, and memory devices. Materials used in conventional nano wires include silicon, tin oxide, and gallium nitride, which is a light emitting semiconductor. The conventional nano wire manufacturing technique is sufficiently developed to be used for altering of the length and width of nano wires.
- Nano light emitting devices using quantum dots are used in conventional nano light emitting devices. Organic EL devices using quantum dots have high radiative recombination efficiency but low carrier injection efficiency. GaN LEDs, which use quantum wells, have relatively high radiative recombination efficiency and carrier injection efficiency. However, it is very difficult to mass produce GaN LED due to a defect caused by the difference in the crystallization structures of the GaN LED and a commonly used sapphire substrate, and thus the manufacturing costs of GaN LEDs are relatively high. A nano light emitting device using nano wires has very high radiative recombination efficiency and relatively high carrier injection efficiency. In addition, the manufacturing process of a nano light emitting device is simple and a nano light emitting device can be formed to have a crystallization structure that is practically identical to that of a substrate, and thus it is easy to mass produce the nano light emitting device.
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FIGS. 1A through 1D are cross-sectional views illustrating a vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) method, which is a conventional method of manufacturing nano wires. - Referring to
FIG. 1A , first, asubstrate 11 is provided. Thesubstrate 11 is a commonly used silicon substrate. - Thereafter, referring to
FIG. 1B , ametal layer 12 is formed on top of thesubstrate 11 by spreading a metal such as Au. - Then, referring to
FIG. 1C , the resultant structure is thermally processed at approximately 500° C. As a result, materials in themetal layer 12 are agglomerated, thereby formingcatalysts 13. As illustrated inFIG. 1C , the sizes of thecatalysts 13 are irregular, that is, they have random sizes. - Next, referring to
FIG. 1D ,nano wires 14 are formed with thecatalysts 13 as nucleation regions. To grow thenano wires 14, silane (SiH4), which is a compound of silicon and hydrogen, is supplied to thecatalysts 13 to grow thenano wires 14 by inducing nucleation of Si of silane at lower portions of thecatalysts 13 at the eutectic temperature. The growth of thenano wires 14 formed at the lower portion of thecatalysts 13 and having a desired length can be controlled by controlling the amount of supplied silane, as illustrated inFIG. 1D . - As the method of forming nano wires illustrated in
FIGS. 1A through 1 described above, nano wires with desired lengths can be easily formed by appropriately controlling the amount of supplied material gas such as silane. However, the growth of nano wires can be limited by the diameters and distribution of the catalysts, and thus it is difficult to accurately control the thicknesses, locations, and distribution of nano wires. In addition, the nano wires can be formed only perpendicular to a substrate using the method described above, and thus a technique to form nano wires parallel to the substrate is required. - The present invention provides a method of manufacturing nano wires which are grown by controlling the diameters and distribution of nucleation regions for forming the nano wires, and nano wires accurately grown using the method.
- The present invention also provides nano wires that have a p-n junction structure and that are formed to an accurate size, and a method of manufacturing the same.
- According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of manufacturing nano wires. The method includes: stacking a mask layer on a substrate, and patterning the mask layer into stripes; and performing an oxygen ion injection process on the substrate and the mask layer to form oxygen ion injection regions in the substrate, thereby forming nano wire regions embedded in the substrate and separated from the substrate by the oxygen ion injection regions.
- The stacking of the mask layer may include: forming a photoresist layer by coating a photoresist on top of the substrate, and the patterning the mask layer into stripes may include: patterning the photoresist layer.
- The stacking of the mask layer may include: forming a photoresist layer by coating a photoresist on top of the substrate; and the patterning the mask layer into stripes may include: patterning the photoresist layer by placing a striped grating over the photoresist layer and emitting a laser thereon; and performing a thermal process on the patterned photoresist layer to form the mask layer.
- The method further includes: controlling the sizes of the nano wires by performing an oxidizing process on a surface of the substrate and the nano wire regions to form an oxidation layer on the surface of the substrate and the nano wire regions.
- The substrate may be a silicon substrate.
- According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of manufacturing nano wires having a p-n junction structure. The method includes: stacking a mask layer on top of a substrate doped with a first impurity, and patterning the mask layer into stripes; performing an oxygen ion injection process on the substrate and the mask layer to form oxygen ion injection regions in the substrate, thereby forming nano wire regions embedded in the substrate and separated from the substrate by the oxygen ion injection regions; and forming a second impurity region contacting a first impurity region in each of the nano wires by disposing a third mask layer over some regions of the substrate and the mask layer and doping with a second impurity.
- The method may further include: forming a first electrode contacting the first impurity region and a second electrode contacting the second impurity region by spreading a conductive material on the substrate after removing the mask layer.
- According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a nano wire structure including: a substrate; nano wires formed in stripes in the substrate; and oxygen ion injection regions formed at a border between the substrate and the nano wires to separate the substrate and the nano wires.
- According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a nano wires having a p-n junction structure. The nano wires include: a substrate doped with a first impurity; nano wires formed in stripes in the substrate with first and second impurity regions; oxygen ion injection regions formed at a border between the substrate and the nano wires to separate the substrate and the nano wires; and a first electrode that contacts the first impurity region and is formed on the substrate, and a second electrode that contacts the second impurity region and is formed on the substrate.
- The above and other features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent by describing in detail exemplary embodiments thereof with reference to the attached drawings in which:
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FIGS. 1A through 1D are cross-sectional views illustrating a conventional method of manufacturing nano wires; -
FIGS. 2A through 2E are cross-sectional views illustrating a method of manufacturing nano wires according to an embodiment of the present invention; -
FIGS. 3A through 3E are cross-sectional views illustrating a method of manufacturing nano wires according to another embodiment of the present invention; and -
FIGS. 4A through 4F are views illustrating a method of forming a p-n structure with the nano wires manufactured using the method illustrated inFIGS. 1A through 2E orFIGS. 3A through 3E according to the first and second embodiments according to an embodiment of the present invention. - Nano wires and a method of manufacturing the same according to the present invention will now be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which exemplary embodiments of the invention are shown. In the drawings, the lengths and sizes of layers are exaggerated for clarity.
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FIGS. 2A through 2E are cross-sectional views illustrating a method of manufacturing nano wires according to an embodiment of the present invention. - Referring to
FIG. 2A , first, a photoresist material is coated to a thickness of several to tens of nm on asubstrate 21 to form aphotoresist layer 22. Thesubstrate 21 is a commonly used silicon substrate. - Referring to
FIG. 2B , thephotoresist layer 22 is patterned into stripes on thesubstrate 21 on which thephotoresist layer 22 is formed, and the resultant structure is heated to near the melting point of the material of thephotoresist layer 11. Then, each of the stripes of thephotoresist layer 22 can be formed to have a semicircular cross section. Consequently, amask layer 23 composed of stripes having semi circular cross sections can be formed. - Next, referring to
FIG. 2C , an implantation process in which oxygen is ion injected into thesubstrate 21 is performed. When the oxygen ion injection is performed using a plasma doping process, the ion injection energy can be selectively controlled in the range from 1 to 100 keV. In this process, an oxygen concentration of 5×1017 to 3×1018/cm2 may be used, as in separation by implantation of oxygen (SIMOX). A deeper ion injection region can be formed in portions of thesubstrate 21 where the ions are injected directly into thesubstrate 21 than in portions of thesubstrate 21 where the ions are injected via themask layer 23. That is, oxygenion injection regions 24 are affected by the shape of the cross section of themask layer 23, as illustrated inFIG. 2C . Since the cross section of themask layer 23 is a semicircle, the oxygen ions injected via relatively thick regions of themask layer 23 cannot enter thesubstrate 21, but remain in themask layer 23, while the depth of the oxygen ions via relatively thin regions of themask layer 23 are injected deeper into thesubstrate 21 at. Therefore, the shape of the oxygenion injection regions 24 can be controlled according to the shape and thickness of themask layer 23 or by adjusting ion injection time. - Referring to
FIG. 2D , themask layer 23 is removed and an oxidizing process is performed on a top surface of thesubstrate 21 under an oxygen atmosphere. The oxidation process is optional, and can be performed to control the sizes of the oxygenion injection regions 24. It was described that the shape of themask layer 23 and ion injection process condition can be controlled to control the size and shape of the oxygenion injection regions 24 with reference toFIG. 2C . In addition, to control the depth of the oxygenion injection regions 24 from the surface of thesubstrate 21, an oxidizing process can be further performed to thesubstrate 21. As illustrated inFIG. 2D , when the oxidizing process is performed to thesubstrate 21, an oxidation layer 25 is formed on thesubstrate 21 and the depth of the oxygenion injection regions 24 decreases. - Referring to
FIG. 2E , when the oxidation layer 25 is removed,nano wire 26 regions embedded in thesubstrate 21 can be obtained. Thenano wires 26 can be separated by thesubstrate 21 and the oxygenion injection regions 24. The shapes and widths of thenano wires 26 are controlled by controlling the shape of themask layer 23, the oxygen ion injection process, and the range of the thickness of the oxidation layer 25, as described with reference toFIGS. 2C and 2D . -
FIGS. 3A through 3E are cross-sectional views illustrating a method of manufacturing nano wires according to another embodiment of the present invention. - Referring to
FIG. 3A , a photoresist material is coated to a thickness of tens of nm on asubstrate 31 to form aphotoresist layer 32. Thesubstrate 31 is a commonly used silicon substrate. - Referring to
FIG. 3B , astriped grating 33 is disposed above thesubstrate 31 on which thephotoresist layer 32 is formed and thephotoresist layer 32 is patterned using a laser. For example, the patterning process may be similar to that used to make a grating of a DFB-laser. Here, a solid laser or a gas laser is used. Regions of thephotoresist layer 32 on which the laser is emitted during the patterning process are removed. Thus, the stripes of thephotoresist layer 32 have trapezoidal cross-sections. A separate heating process as illustrated inFIG. 2B is not performed in the present embodiment. - Referring to
FIG. 3C , an implantation process in which oxygen is ion injected into thesubstrate 31 is performed. If the ion injection energy of the oxygen that is ion injected is uniformly controlled, oxygenion injection regions 34 are formed deeper where the oxygen is injected directed into thesubstrate 31 than when the oxygen is injected into thesubstrate 31 via thephotoresist layer 32. Consequently, the oxygenion injection regions 34 are affected by the cross-sections of thephotoresist layer 32 and are trapezoidals, as illustrated inFIG. 3C . Of course, the depths of the oxygenion injection regions 34 can be increased if the ion injection energy, which can be controlled, is increased. - Referring to
FIG. 3D , thephotoresist layer 32 is removed, and an oxidizing process is performed on the top surface of thesubstrate 31 under an oxygen atmosphere. The objective of the oxidizing process is the same as described with reference toFIG. 2D , to control the depth of the oxygenion injection regions 34, and the depth of a formed oxidation layer can be controlled. - Referring to
FIG. 3E , when the oxidation layer is removed,nano wires 36 embedded in thesubstrate 31 can be obtained. Thenano wires 36 are separated by the oxygenion injection regions 34, and are composed of the same material as thesubstrate 31. Thenano wires 36 are formed during the oxygen ion injection process like thenano wires FIGS. 2C and 3C . That is, the oxygenion injection regions substrates substrates mask layer 23 or the removing of thephotoresist layer 32 and the oxidizing process that are performed after the oxygenion injection regions nano wires - Nano wires having a p-n structure according to an embodiment of the present invention will now be described with reference to
FIGS. 4A through 4F below. -
FIG. 4A is a cross-section of a portion of a sample in which the oxygenion injection region 34 formed during the oxygen ion injection process illustrated inFIG. 3C and thenano wire 36 are formed. The same process can be applied to a sample illustrated inFIG. 2C .FIG. 4B is a perspective view of the sample illustrated inFIG. 4A . - Referring to
FIGS. 4A and 4B , the oxygenion injection region 34 is formed in thesubstrate 31 made of, for example, silicon, which is commonly used in a semiconductor process, and anano wire 36 separated from thesubstrate 31 by the oxygenion injection region 34 is formed. When thesubstrate 31 is made of silicon, silicon nano wires are formed in thesubstrate 31 parallel to thesubstrate 31. The photoresist layers 32 patterned to have trapezoidal cross-sections are formed on top of thesubstrate 31. When using asemiconductor substrate 31 that is initially doped with a p- or n-type impurity, thenano wire 36 is also doped with a p- or n-type impurity. Therefore, thesubstrate 31 and thenano wire 36 can be doped with a first impurity. - Referring to
FIG. 4C , amask 37 is disposed above thesubstrate 31, and a second impurity is doped into the structure. The second impurity used here can be any material used in a general semiconductor process. - Consequently, referring to
FIG. 4D , thenano wire 36 is divided into two regions by the doping process.FIG. 4E is a plane view of the sample illustrated inFIG. 4D . Referring toFIGS. 4D and 4E , asingle nano wire 36 has a p-n structure in which afirst impurity region 36 a and asecond impurity region 36 b are formed. When the photoresist layers 32 and themask 37 are removed, a nano wire region is formed in thesubstrate 31, and thesubstrate 31 and thenano wire 36 are structurally separated from each other by the oxygenion injection region 34. The nano wire is divided into thefirst impurity region 36 a and thesecond impurity region 36 b. - Referring to
FIG. 4F , afirst electrode 39 is formed by coating a conductive material on thesubstrate 31 so that thefirst electrode 37 contacts thefirst impurity region 36 a, and asecond electrode 38 is formed by coating a conductive material on thesubstrate 31 so that thesecond electrode 38 contacts thesecond impurity region 36 b. In this way, a p-n junction semiconductor device can be obtained. - The present invention has the following advantages.
- First, the application range of the nano wires of the present invention is very wide since the nano wires are embedded in a substrate, unlike conventional nano wires, which are formed perpendicular to a substrate.
- Second, since the locations, sizes, and distribution of the nano wires can be controlled, it is possible to mass produce the nano wires in an array structure.
- Third, a process of forming nano wires having a p-n junction structure to apply the nano wires in the devices can be easily performed. The process itself is simplified since a MOS-FET is not used, and a conventional semiconductor processing technique can be used.
- Fourth, conventionally, it is difficult to manufacture a semiconductor device having a transistor structure with a precision of 45 nm or less. However, a in the present invention, a highly integrated device having a precision of less than 45 nm can be obtained with a simple p-n junction structure.
- While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention as defined by the following claims. For example, it is possible to form nano wires with a p-n junction by doping impurities using a structure illustrated in
FIG. 2E or 3E. Therefore, the scope of the invention is defined not by the detailed description of the invention but by the appended claims, and all differences within the scope will be construed as being included in the present invention.
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1. A method of manufacturing nano wires, the method comprising:
stacking a mask layer on a substrate, and patterning the mask layer into stripes; and
performing an oxygen ion injection process on the substrate and the mask layer to form oxygen ion injection regions in the substrate, thereby forming nano wire regions embedded in the substrate and separated from the substrate by the oxygen ion injection regions.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the stacking of the mask layer comprises:
forming a photoresist layer by coating a photoresist on top of the substrate,
and the patterning the mask layer into stripes comprises:
patterning the photoresist layer; and
performing a thermal process on the patterned photoresist later to form the mask layer.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the stacking of the mask layer comprises:
forming a photoresist layer by coating a photoresist on top of the substrate;
and the patterning the mask layer into stripes comprises: and
patterning the photoresist layer by placing a striped grating over the photoresist layer and emitting a laser thereon.
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: controlling the sizes of the nano wires by performing an oxidizing process on a surface of the substrate and the nano wire regions to form an oxidation layer on the surface of the substrate and the nano wire regions.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the substrate is a silicon substrate.
6. A method of manufacturing nano wires having a p-n junction structure, the method comprising:
stacking a mask layer on top of a substrate doped with a first impurity, and patterning the mask layer into stripes;
performing an oxygen ion injection process on the substrate and the mask layer to form oxygen ion injection regions in the substrate, thereby forming nano wire regions embedded in the substrate and separated from the substrate by the oxygen ion injection regions; and
forming a second impurity region contacting a first impurity region in each of the nano wires by disposing a third mask layer over some regions of the substrate and the mask layer and doping with a second impurity.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the stacking of the mask layer comprises:
forming a photoresist layer by coating a photoresist on top of the substrate,
and the patterning the mask layer into stripes comprises:
patterning the photoresist layer; and
performing a thermal process on the patterned photoresist later to form the mask layer.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the stacking of the mask layer comprises:
forming a photoresist layer by coating a photoresist on top of the substrate;
and the patterning the mask layer into stripes comprises:
patterning the photoresist layer by placing a striped grating over the photoresist layer and emitting a laser thereon; and
performing a thermal process on the patterned photoresist layer to form the mask layer.
9. The method of claim 6 , further comprising forming a first electrode contacting the first impurity region and a second electrode contacting the second impurity region by spreading a conductive material on the substrate after removing the mask layer.
10. A nano wire structure comprising:
a substrate;
nano wires formed in stripes in the substrate; and
oxygen ion injection regions formed at a border between the substrate and the nano wires to separate the substrate and the nano wires.
11. The nano wires of claim 10 , wherein the substrate and the nano wires are made of silicon.
12. Nano wires having a p-n junction structure, the nano wires comprising:
a substrate doped with a first impurity;
nano wires formed in stripes in the substrate with first and second impurity regions;
oxygen ion injection regions formed at a border between the substrate and the nano wires to separate the substrate and the nano wires; and
a first electrode that contacts the first impurity region and is formed on the substrate, and a second electrode that contacts the second impurity region and is formed on the substrate.
13. The nano wires of claim 12 , wherein the substrate and the nano wires are made of silicon.
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