An apparatus for cutting workpieces has a saw and a carousel. The carousel has a plurality of workpiece-holding pockets and is mounted for rotation about a carousel axis to pass the workpiece-holding pockets from a first position remote of the saw through at least a second position proximate the saw.

Methods for controlling the surface profiles of wafers sliced from an ingot with a wire saw include measuring an amount of displacement of a sidewall of a frame of the wire saw. The sidewall is connected to a bearing of a wire guide supporting a wire web in the wire saw. Based on the measured amount of displacement of the sidewall, a pressure profile for adjusting a position of the sidewall is determined by a computing device. Pressure is applied to the sidewall using a displacement device according to the determined pressure profile to control the position of the sidewall.

Methods for controlling the surface profiles of wafers sliced from an ingot with a wire saw include measuring an amount of displacement of a sidewall of a frame of the wire saw. The sidewall is connected to a bearing of a wire guide supporting a wire web in the wire saw. Based on the measured amount of displacement of the sidewall, a pressure profile for adjusting a position of the sidewall is determined by a computing device. Pressure is applied to the sidewall using a displacement device according to the determined pressure profile to control the position of the sidewall.

A sequential integration process is described. An example process involves forming a wafer stack by bonding a first wafer to a second wafer with a front side of the first wafer facing a front side of the second wafer, the first wafer including a first device region formed on the front side of the first wafer and including a set of semiconductor devices. The example process involves, subsequent to forming the wafer stack, forming a second device region on a back side of the first wafer, the second device region including a set of semiconductor devices. The example process involves forming at least one interconnection layer on the second device region for electrically interconnecting the semiconductor devices of the second device region. The example process also involves forming at least one via extending through the wafer stack from the at least one interconnection layer and through the first wafer.

A sequential integration process is described. An example process involves forming a wafer stack by bonding a first wafer to a second wafer with a front side of the first wafer facing a front side of the second wafer, the first wafer including a first device region formed on the front side of the first wafer and including a set of semiconductor devices. The example process involves, subsequent to forming the wafer stack, forming a second device region on a back side of the first wafer, the second device region including a set of semiconductor devices. The example process involves forming at least one interconnection layer on the second device region for electrically interconnecting the semiconductor devices of the second device region. The example process also involves forming at least one via extending through the wafer stack from the at least one interconnection layer and through the first wafer.

Methods for controlling the surface profiles of wafers sliced from an ingot with a wire saw include measuring an amount of displacement of a sidewall of a frame of the wire saw. The sidewall is connected to a bearing of a wire guide supporting a wire web in the wire saw. The measured amount of displacement of the sidewall is stored as displacement data. Based on the stored data, a pressure profile for adjusting a position of the sidewall is determined by a computing device. Pressure is applied to the sidewall using a displacement device according to the determined pressure profile to control the position of the sidewall.

A bonded wafer production method for producing a bonded wafer having a thin film on a base wafer by forming an ion implanted layer in a bond wafer by implanting at least one of gas ion of a hydrogen ion and a rare gas ion from a surface of the bond wafer and, after directly bonding an ion implanted surface of the bond wafer and a surface of the base wafer together or bonding the ion implanted surface of the bond wafer and the surface of the base wafer together with an insulator film placed therebetween, delaminating the bond wafer at the ion implanted layer, wherein, as at least one of the bond wafer and the base wafer, an epitaxial wafer is used, and, as cleaning of the epitaxial wafer which is performed before the formation of an epitaxial layer, single wafer processing spin cleaning is performed.

A sequential integration process is described. An example process involves forming a wafer stack by bonding a first wafer to a second wafer with a front side of the first wafer facing a front side of the second wafer, the first wafer including a first device region formed on the front side of the first wafer and including a set of semiconductor devices. The example process involves, subsequent to forming the wafer stack, forming a second device region on a back side of the first wafer, the second device region including a set of semiconductor devices. The example process involves forming at least one interconnection layer on the second device region for electrically interconnecting the semiconductor devices of the second device region. The example process also involves forming at least one via extending through the wafer stack from the at least one interconnection layer and through the first wafer.

Methods for controlling the surface profiles of wafers sliced from an ingot with a wire saw include measuring an amount of displacement of a sidewall of a frame of the wire saw. The sidewall is connected to a bearing of a wire guide supporting a wire web in the wire saw. The measured amount of displacement of the sidewall is stored as displacement data. Based on the stored data, a pressure profile for adjusting a position of the sidewall is determined by a computing device. Pressure is applied to the sidewall using a displacement device according to the determined pressure profile to control the position of the sidewall.