Satellite and method of manufacturing a semiconductor film using the satellite

• Main Author: HANAMAKI YOSHIHIKO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 03.05.2007
• Subjects: AFTER-TREATMENT OF SINGLE CRYSTALS OR A HOMOGENEOUSPOLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WITH DEFINED STRUCTURE; APPARATUS THEREFOR; BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTAL GROWTH; ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; METALLURGY; PRODUCTION OF A HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WITHDEFINED STRUCTURE; REFINING BY ZONE-MELTING OF MATERIAL; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SINGLE CRYSTALS OR HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WITHDEFINED STRUCTURE; SINGLE-CRYSTAL-GROWTH; UNIDIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION OF EUTECTIC MATERIAL ORUNIDIRECTIONAL DEMIXING OF EUTECTOID MATERIAL

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor film including a setting a substrate on a satellite; and a forming an alloy semiconductor thin film containing at least two different group V elements or group IV elements on the substrate by metal organic chemical vapor deposition while supplying thermal energy to the substrate through the satellite. The satellite comprises a flat satellite body on which the substrate is placed and a perimeter fixing section which fixes the perimeter of the substrate. The perimeter fixing section contacts only part of the perimeter of the substrate, instead of the entire perimeter of the substrate.