Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2011
An arsenic diffusion model was proposed with the emphasis on a new deactivation process which accounts for excess interstitial silicon generation. Appropriate parameter set for the binding energies of arsenic-point defect pairs were obtained for reproducing various arsenic activation levels and interaction with boron in the case of co-diffusion. Such parameters were extracted from the data of carefully performed secondary ion mass spectroscopy with lowering the primary beam energy.