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Dynamic Annealing Phenomena and the Origin of RTA-Induced “Hairpin” Dislocations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 February 2011
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The geometry, origin, and diffusion along hairpin defects in Si were investigated using TEM and SIMS techniques. The defect that grows from the amorphous-crystalline (a/c) interface following solid phase epitaxy growth front was found to be a perfect dislocation with a/2(101) Burgers vector. Misoriented microcrystallites within the a/c transition region are proposed to be nucleation sites for the hairpin dislocations. The density of the crystallites increases with an overall coarsening of the interface which occurs during dynamic annealing processes stimulated by implantation or post-implantation low temperature annealing. Hairpin dislocations were found to pipe-diffuse boron at much higher rates than bulk processes significantly shifting dopant profiles. The diffusion coefficient of boron pipe diffusion at 1150°C was found to be about 104 times higher than the bulk one.
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