Enhanced Diffusion During Rapid Thermal Annealing Of Indium And Boron In Double Implanted Silicon

1987 ◽  
Vol 92 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Ganin ◽  
G. A. Sai-Halasz ◽  
T. O. Sedgwick

AbstractExperimental results on the diffusion and precipitation of In and B doubly implanted into Si, followed by rapid thermal treatment are reported. It was observed that In redistributes itself and accumulates in defected regions. The amount of motion of each species is enhanced by the presence of the other. While the B influences In diffusion probably through the same mechanism that leads to concentration enhancement, the effect of In on B is not clear. There is no correlation with strain and no apparent chemical effects. Also the presence of B facilitates the sweeping out of In during low temperature solid phase regrowth.

1984 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. J. Pennycook ◽  
J. Narayan ◽  
R. J. Culbertson

ABSTRACTWe have studied in detail the transient enhanced diffusion observed during furnace or rapid-thermal-annealing of ion-implanted Si. We show that the effect originates in the trapping of Si atoms by dopant atoms during implantation, which are retained during solid-phase-epitaxial (SPE) growth but released by subsequent annealing to cause a transient dopant precipitation or profile broadening. The interstitials condense to form a band of dislocation loops located at the peak of the dopant profile, which may be distinct from the band formed at the original amorphous/crystalline interface. The band can develop into a network and effectively getter the dopant. We discuss the conditions under which the various effects may or may not be observed, and discuss preliminary observations on As+ implanted Si.


1999 ◽  
Vol 568 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aditya Agarwal ◽  
Hans-J. Gossmann ◽  
Anthony T. Fiory

ABSTRACTOver the last couple of years rapid thermal annealing (RTA) equipment suppliers have been aggressively developing lamp-based furnaces capable of achieving ramp-up rates on the order of hundreds of degrees per second. One of the driving forces for adopting such a strategy was the experimental demonstration of 30nm p-type junctions by employing a ramp-up rate of ≈400°C/s. It was subsequently proposed that the ultra-fast temperature ramp-up was suppressing transient enhanced diffusion (TED) of boron which results from the interaction of the implantation damage with the dopant. The capability to achieve very high temperature ramp-rates was thus embraced as an essential requirement of the next generation of RTA equipment.In this paper, recent experimental data examining the effect of the ramp-up rate during spike-and soak-anneals on enhanced diffusion and shallow junction formation is reviewed. The advantage of increasing the ramp-up rate is found to be largest for the shallowest, 0.5-keV, B implants. At such ultra-low energies (ULE) the advantage arises from a reduction of the total thermal budget. Simulations reveal that a point of diminishing return is quickly reached when increasing the ramp-up rate since the ramp-down rate is in practice limited. At energies where TED dominates, a high ramp-up rate is only effective in minimizing diffusion if the implanted dose is sufficiently small so that the TED can be run out during the ramp-up portion of the anneal; for larger doses, a high ramp-up rate only serves to postpone the TED to the ramp-down duration of the anneal. However, even when TED is minimized at higher implant energies via high ramp-up rates, the advantage is unobservable due to the rather large as-implanted depth. It appears then that while spike anneals allow the activation of ULE-implanted dopants to be maximized while minimizing their diffusion the limitation imposed by the ramp-down rate compromises the advantage of very aggressive ramp-up rates.


Materials ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 2248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hadi Mahmodi ◽  
Md Hashim ◽  
Tetsuo Soga ◽  
Salman Alrokayan ◽  
Haseeb Khan ◽  
...  

In this work, nanocrystalline Ge1−xSnx alloy formation from a rapid thermal annealed Ge/Sn/Ge multilayer has been presented. The multilayer was magnetron sputtered onto the Silicon substrate. This was followed by annealing the layers by rapid thermal annealing, at temperatures of 300 °C, 350 °C, 400 °C, and 450 °C, for 10 s. Then, the effect of thermal annealing on the morphological, structural, and optical characteristics of the synthesized Ge1−xSnx alloys were investigated. The nanocrystalline Ge1−xSnx formation was revealed by high-resolution X-ray diffraction (HR-XRD) measurements, which showed the orientation of (111). Raman results showed that phonon intensities of the Ge-Ge vibrations were improved with an increase in the annealing temperature. The results evidently showed that raising the annealing temperature led to improvements in the crystalline quality of the layers. It was demonstrated that Ge-Sn solid-phase mixing had occurred at a low temperature of 400 °C, which led to the creation of a Ge1−xSnx alloy. In addition, spectral photo-responsivity of a fabricated Ge1−xSnx metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) photodetector exhibited its extending wavelength into the near-infrared region (820 nm).


2011 ◽  
Vol 1321 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Kumar ◽  
P.I. Widenborg ◽  
H. Hidayat ◽  
Qiu Zixuan ◽  
A.G. Aberle

ABSTRACTThe effect of the rapid thermal annealing (RTA) and hydrogenation step on the electronic properties of the n+ and p+ solid phase crystallized (SPC) poly-crystalline silicon (poly-Si) thin films was investigated using Hall effect measurements and four-point-probe measurements. Both the RTA and hydrogenation step were found to affect the electronic properties of doped poly-Si thin films. The RTA step was found to have the largest impact on the dopant activation and majority carrier mobility of the p+ SPC poly-Si thin films. A very high Hall mobility of 71 cm2/Vs for n+ poly-Si and 35 cm2/Vs for p+ poly-Si at the carrier concentration of 2×1019 cm-3 and 4.5×1019 cm-3, respectively, were obtained.


2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 7739-7748 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bidyut Barman ◽  
Hrishikesh Dhasmana ◽  
Abhishek Verma ◽  
Amit Kumar ◽  
D. N Singh ◽  
...  

2007 ◽  
Vol 124-126 ◽  
pp. 447-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyoung June Kim

Polycrystalline Si thin film transistors (TFTs) have been fabricated through solid phase crystallization using field-enhanced rapid thermal annealing (FE-RTA) system. The system consists of inline furnace modules for preheating and cooling of the glass substrates and a process module for rapid radiative heating combined with alternating magnetic field induction. The FE-RTA system enables crystallization of amorphous Si at high throughputs without any glass damages. While the typical grain structures of poly-Si by FE-RTA are similar to those of solid phase crystallization, the residual amorphous Si and intragranular defects are reduced.


1998 ◽  
Vol 37 (Part 1, No. 3B) ◽  
pp. 1054-1058 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yukio Nishida ◽  
Hirokazu Sayama ◽  
Satoshi Shimizu ◽  
Takashi Kuroi ◽  
Akihiko Furukawa ◽  
...  

2002 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 214-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. B. Zhao ◽  
K. L. Pey ◽  
W. K. Choi ◽  
S. Chattopadhyay ◽  
E. A. Fitzgerald ◽  
...  

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