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A View of the Commercial Application of Ion Implantation for Silicon VLSI Manufacturing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2011

Michael I. Current*
Affiliation:
Applied Materials, 3050 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA
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Abstract

The development of ion implantation for doping of Si-IC devices is reviewed with a special focus on some of the commercial as well as technological factors.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1994

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