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Profiling the Deep Trap Level in the Semiconductor Heterostructures by Small-Pulse Deep Level Transient Spectroscopy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2011

Zhang Rong ,
Yang Kai ,
Qing Guoyi ,
Shi Yi ,
Gu Shulin ,
Huang Hongbin ,
Hu Liqun ,
Zheng Youdou  and
Feng Duan
Zhang Rong
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210008, CHINA
Yang Kai
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210008, CHINA
Qing Guoyi
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210008, CHINA
Shi Yi
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210008, CHINA
Gu Shulin
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210008, CHINA
Huang Hongbin
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210008, CHINA
Hu Liqun
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210008, CHINA
Zheng Youdou
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210008, CHINA
Feng Duan
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210008, CHINA
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Abstract

In this paper we report for the first time theoretical and experimental study on smallpulse DLTS measurements of deep levels in semiconductor heterostructures. A theoretical model has been developed on the basis of the Schodinger and Poisson's electrostatic equation. Distribution of charge density in the superlattice has been considered, especially transferred charges in the “narrow gap” sublayers. The calculated results indicate that tinder the 1017/cm3 doping condition, a 30mV small pulse corresponds to a 2nm “sampling space window”, it is enough to detect special signal of deep levels in each sublayer in the semiconductor heterostructures. A SiGe/Si sample has been measured by the small-pulse DLTS. The experimental results agree well with the theoretical prediction and show that the small-pulse DLTS is a good method to study deep levels in the semiconductor heterostructures.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 338: Symposium – Materials Reliability in Microelectronics IV , 1994 , 195
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1994

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