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Reduced Subboundary Misalignment in SOI Films Scanned at Low Velocities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

Loren Pfeiffer ,
K. W. West ,
D. C. Joy ,
J. M. Gibson  and
A. E. Gelman
Loren Pfeiffer
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
K. W. West
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
D. C. Joy
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
J. M. Gibson
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
A. E. Gelman
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
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Abstract

Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) films on SiO2 scan-melted at low velocities (20 to 300 µm/sec) with reduced thermal gradients at the melt-freezing interface are found to have qualitatively different properties from similar films melt-scanned at higher gradients and scan velocities. The transition between the two regimes appears to be abrupt. Scanning at intermediate velocities often results an admixture of patches containing one or the other type of material. The slow scan regime is characterized by long straight non-branched subboundaries having a lateral spacing 50-60 µm, and very small tilt misalignments of 0.1° or less. These slow scan subboundaries are found to consist largely of threading dislocations in contrast conventional subboundaries which are tilt boundaries of up to 3° and typically consist of edge dislocations running in the plane of the film.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 53 , 1985 , 29
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1986

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Present address: Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.

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