Abstract: A method for producing a semiconductor entity is described. The method includes providing a donor substrate having a zone of weakness at a predetermined depth to define a thin layer, and the donor substrate includes a bonding interface. A receiver substrate is also provided that includes at least one motif on its surface. The technique further includes bonding the donor substrate at the bonding interface to the at least one motif on the receiver substrate, and supplying sufficient energy to detach a portion of the thin layer from the donor substrate located at the at least one motif and to rupture bonds within the thin layer. The energy thus supplied is insufficient to rupture the bond at the bonding interface. Also described is fabrication of a wafer and the use of the method to produce chips suitable for use in electronics, optics, or optoelectronics applications.

Abstract: A method of producing a substrate that has a transfer crystalline layer transferred from a donor wafer onto a support. The transfer layer can include one or more foreign species to modify its properties. In the preferred embodiment an atomic species is implanted into a zone of the donor wafer that is substantially free of foreign species to form an embrittlement or weakened zone below a bonding face thereof, with the weakened zone and the bonding face delimiting a transfer layer to be transferred. The donor wafer is preferably then bonded at the level of its bonding face to a support. Stresses are then preferably applied to produce a cleavage in the region of the weakened zone to obtain a substrate that includes the support and the transfer layer. Foreign species are preferably diffused into the thickness of the transfer layer prior to implantation or after cleavage to modify the properties of the transfer layer, preferably its electrical or optical properties.

Abstract: The invention relates to a substrate that includes a multi-layer structure on the surface of a donor wafer that has a thickness sufficient to form multiple useful layers for subsequent detachment. The layers may be formed of materials having sufficiently different properties such that they may be selectively removed. The layers of material may also include sub-layers that can be selectively removed from each other.