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Grown-in vacancy-type defects in poly- and single crystalline silicon investigated by positron annihilation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2007

S. Dannefaer ,
V. Avalos  and
O. Andersen
S. Dannefaer*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3B 2E9
V. Avalos
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3B 2E9
O. Andersen
Affiliation:
Topsil Semiconductor Materials, Linderupvej 4, PO Box 100, 3600 Frederikssund, Denmark
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[email protected]
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Abstract

Positron annihilation was used to characterize vacancy-type defects in two types of polycrystalline Si grown at temperatures above ~800 °C by chemical vapour deposition. The majority of vacancies (80%) consisted of monovacancies, and their thermal stability indicated them to be trapped at grain boundaries or at dislocations. Annealing above 500 °C caused a significant reduction in the monovacancy concentration, and an increase in divacancy concentration. Divacancies started to anneal above 1200 °C. Measurements between 8 and 293 K indicated that vacancies were neutral before as well as after annealing at 1380 °C. Fz-grown Si from one of these materials contained vacancy clusters with an average size of six to ten vacancies which persisted to 1380 °C. The cluster concentration corresponded to a monovacancy concentration of 1015 to 1016 cm−3, which is at least one order of magnitude larger than estimates based on voids [R. Falster, V.V. Voronko, F. Quast, Phys. Status Solidi B 222, 219 (2000)].

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The European Physical Journal - Applied Physics , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , February 2007 , pp. 213 - 218
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© EDP Sciences, 2007

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