Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/10599
Title: Annealing kinetics of vacancy-related defects in low-dose MeV self-ion-implanted n-type silicon
Author: Pellegrino, Paolo
Leveque, P.
Hallen, A.
Lalita, J.
Jagadish, C. (Chennupati)
Svensson, Bengt G.
Keywords: Microelectrònica
Dispositius magnètics
Microelectronics
Magnetic devices
Issue Date: 2001
Publisher: The American Physical Society
Abstract: Silicon samples of n-type have been implanted at room temperature with 5.6-MeV 28Si ions to a dose of 23108 cm22 and then annealed at temperatures from 100 to 380 °C. Both isothermal and isochronal treatments were performed and the annealing kinetics of the prominent divacancy (V2) and vacancy-oxygen ~VO! centers were studied in detail using deep-level transient spectroscopy. The decrease of V2 centers exhibits first-order kinetics in both Czochralski-grown ~CZ! and float-zone ~FZ! samples, and the data provide strong evidence for a process involving migration of V2 and subsequent annihilation at trapping centers. The migration energy extracted for V2 is ;1.3 eV and from the shape of the concentration versus depth profiles, an effective diffusion length <0.1 mm is obtained. The VO center displays a more complex annealing behavior where interaction with mobile hydrogen ~H! plays a key role through the formation of VOH and VOH2 centers. Another contribution is migration of VO and trapping by interstitial oxygen atoms in the silicon lattice, giving rise to vacancy-dioxygen pairs. An activation energy of ;1.8 eV is deduced for the migration of VO, in close resemblance with results from previous studies using electron-irradiated samples. A model for the annealing of VO, involving only three reactions, is put forward and shown to yield a close quantitative agreement with the experimental data for both CZ and FZ samples over the whole temperature range studied.
Note: Reproducció digital del document publicat en format paper, proporcionada per PROLA i http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.64.195211
It is part of: Physical Review B, 2001, vol. 64, núm. 19, p. 195211-195221
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/10599
Related resource: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.64.195211
ISSN: 0163-1829
Appears in Collections:Articles publicats en revistes (Enginyeria Electrònica i Biomèdica)

Files in This Item:
File Description SizeFormat 
521835.pdf153.93 kBAdobe PDFView/Open


Items in DSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.