Reflectivity of Silicon-on-Sapphire During Pulsed Laser Annealing

1983 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. H. Chen ◽  
S. A. Lyon

ABSTRACTUsing a visible probe laser (632.8 nm) we have directly observed motion of the melt front in silicon-on-sapphire during pulsed laser annealing. The average penetration and regrowth velocities have been determined to be 13 and 6.5 m/sec. respectively. These values are in agreement with recent conductivity measurements and heat flow calculations. In addition, the data demonstrate that the high-reflectivity phase can penetrate at least .5 um (Si thickness) and requires a significant amount of the time to do so. These results are further evidence that the high–reflectivity phase is molten silicon.

1992 ◽  
Vol 258 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. E. Ready ◽  
J. H. Roh ◽  
J. B. Boyce ◽  
G. B. Anderson

ABSTRACTExplosive crystallization of amorphous silicon (a-Si) during pulsed laser annealing occurs at an intermediate laser energy fluence above the threshold for surface melting. Mediated by a molten silicon layer which is undercooled with respect to crystalline silicon and above the melting point of a-Si, the crystallization interface drives down into the sample, sustaining itself due to the difference in the latent heats of the crystalline and amorphous silicon. Explosive crystallization has been the subject of numerous studies which have for the most part been restricted to ion implanted amorphized layers in silicon bulk samples. In this study we examine the crystallization kinetics of vapor deposited thin films of hydrogenated a-Si for films of differing hydrogen content and substrate temperature. We reevaluate current models of interface and nucleation kinetics qualitatively in light of these results. The fundamental physical mechanisms in these non-equilibrium phase transitions during pulsed laser annealing are discussed.


1983 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. E. Jellison ◽  
D. H. Lowndes ◽  
R. F. Wood

ABSTRACTRaman temperature measurements during pulsed laser annealing of Si by Compaan and co-workers are critically examined. It has been shown previously that the Stokes to anti-Stokes ratio depends critically upon the optical properties of silicon as a function of temperature. These dependences, coupled with the large spatial and temporal temperature gradients normally found immediately after the high reflectivity phase, result in large variations in the calculated temperature depending upon the probe laser pulse width and the pulse-to-pulse and spatial variations in the annealing pulse energy density.


1981 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. F. Wood ◽  
D. H. Lowndes ◽  
G. E. Giles

ABSTRACTCompaan and co-workers have reported the results of time-resolved optical experiments on ion-implanted silicon which they claim prove the melting model of pulsed laser annealing cannot be correct. These results concern the rapid onset of a Raman signal after a heating laser pulse, the simultaneous occurrence of a Raman signal and the high reflectivity phase characteristic of molten silicon, and the lattice temperature measured by the Raman Stokes/anti-Stokes intensity ratio. In this paper, we show by detailed numerical calculations with the melting model that there is, in fact, excellent agreement between the results of the calculations and the experimental results reported by Compaan and co-workers.


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Author(s):  
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B.J. Sealy ◽  
K.G. Stephens ◽  
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