Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-t7fkt Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-29T09:59:44.194Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Trapping of Molecular Hydrogen in Porous Silicon and at Si/SiO2 Interfaces and a Possible Reinterpretation of the Pb Center

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2011

Peter Stallinga ,
T. Gregorkiewicz  and
C.A.J. Ammerlaan
Peter Stallinga
Affiliation:
Van der Waals-Zeeman Laboratorium der Universiteit van Amsterdam, Valckenierstraat 65, 1018 XE Amsterdam, The Netherlands, (e-mail: [email protected])
T. Gregorkiewicz
Affiliation:
Van der Waals-Zeeman Laboratorium der Universiteit van Amsterdam, Valckenierstraat 65, 1018 XE Amsterdam, The Netherlands, (e-mail: [email protected])
C.A.J. Ammerlaan
Affiliation:
Van der Waals-Zeeman Laboratorium der Universiteit van Amsterdam, Valckenierstraat 65, 1018 XE Amsterdam, The Netherlands, (e-mail: [email protected])
Get access

Abstract

Many recent studies of the highlighted problem of visible-range photoluminescence of porous silicon (po-Si) indicate the presence of hydrogen in this material. However, its actual role is not clear with the discussed possibilities ranging from passivation of the surface defects to some form of active participation in the photoluminescence (PL) mechanism itself. At the same time, in several magnetic resonance studies of po-Si the so-called Pb center, originally identified with the <111>-directed silicon broken bond stabilized at Si/SiO2 interfaces, has been reported.

Very recently the paramagnetic state of molecular hydrogen in bulk silicon has been identified. The spin-Hamiltonian parameters of the related Si-NL52 EPR spectrum appear to be identical to those of the Pb center. This observation casts severe doubts on the original interpretation of the Pb center while, on the other hand, offering new evidence of a prominent presence of hydrogen molecules both in po-Si and at the Si/SiO2 interface. In this paper the similarities of Si-NL52 and Pb centers are examined in detail, and it is argued that the centers are the same. It is concluded that many features of the Pb center which could not be explained within the broken-bond model can be understood with the interstitial hydrogen molecule model.

Type
Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 324: Symposium K – Diagnostic Techniques for Semiconductor Materials Processing , 1993 , 385
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1994

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1) Nishi, Y., Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 10, 52 (1971).Google Scholar
2) Poindexter, E.H., Caplan, P.J., Deal, B.E., and Razouk, R.R., J. Appl. Phys. 52, 879 (1981).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
3) Morton, J.R. and Preston, K.F. J. Magn. Reson. 30, 577 (1978).Google Scholar
4) Brower, K.L., Appl. Phys. yett. 43, 1111 (1983).Google Scholar
5) Carlos, W.E., Appl. Phys. Lett. 50, 1450 (1987).Google Scholar
6) Stallinga, P., Gregorkiewicz, T., Ammerlaan, C.A.J., and Gorelkinskii, Yu.V., Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 117 (1993).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
7) Feher, G., Phys. Rev. 114, 1219 (1959).Google Scholar
8) Gregorkiewicz, T., Altink, H.E., and Ammerlaan, C.A.J., Acta Phys. Pol. A 80, 161 (1991).Google Scholar