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Intrinsic Gettering of Iron in Czochralski Silicon Crystals
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 September 2012
Abstract
We present a new experimental approach to studying the mechanism of intrinsic gettering of Fe in Czochralski silicon crystals. We present our experimental method and results for as-grown and intrinsic gettered wafers with high and low-level Fe surface contamination. We found that when annealing at the Fe supersaturation temperature, Fe concentration decreases faster in intrinsic gettered wafers than in as-grown wafers. Concentration saturated with annealing time for each sample and the saturated Fe concentration followed a simple Arrhenius relationship. Re-emission of Fe from the bulk defect region occurred above the gettering temperature. We conclude that in intrinsic gettering, Fe precipitates preferentially in the bulk defect region when the Fe impurities supersaturate as temperature drops.
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