| CPC H01L 21/7813 (2013.01) [B32B 37/025 (2013.01); B32B 2457/14 (2013.01)] | 11 Claims |

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1. Method of transferring a layer from a source substrate to a destination substrate, comprising the following steps:
a) arranging a masking disk on a central portion of a bonding surface of said layer and/or of the destination substrate;
b) implementing an ion etching to form a step in front of a peripheral portion, not covered with the masking disk, of the bonding surface of said layer and/or of the destination substrate;
c) removing the masking disk;
d) activating the bonding surface of said layer and the bonding surface of the destination substrate by ion etching or ion deposition of a bonding material; and
e) after step d), placing into contact the bonding surface of said layer with the bonding surface of the destination substrate,
wherein steps b) and d) are successively implemented in a same ion treatment chamber; and
wherein steps d) and e) are implemented under vacuum, with no rupture of vacuum between the two steps.
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