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Room Temperature Damage, Annealing and Dislocation Growth in Silicon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2011

R.G. Elliman
Affiliation:
Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
I.V. Mitchell
Affiliation:
Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
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Abstract

The concentration of residual defects produced by self ion implantation of silicon has been shown to be a sensitive function of implantation temperature at temperatures near room temperature. In this study samples were heated to temperatures of 20°C and 60°C and implanted with 540 keV Si ions to a fluence of 2x1015Si.cm-2 using a constant scanned ion flux of 0.2 μA.cm-2. The resultant primary defect concentrations, measured by Rutherford backscattering spectrometry and channelling (RBS-C), were 2.3±0.1x1022 cm-l and 1.8±0.2x1021 cm-3, respectively, i.e. a reduction by a factor of σ13 for a temperature increase of 40°C. Such differences were not evident in the concentration of secondary defects formed by annealing these samples at 900°C for 15 minutes: the defect concentrations were equal within the experimental uncertainties of the RBS-C and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) measurements. This result appears to lead to the surprising conclusion that the number of displaced atoms that survive high temperature annealing to form extended defects is largely independent of the dynamic annealing processes operating during implantation but depends instead on parameters which scale with the ion fluence.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

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