The interstitial fraction of diffusivity of common dopants in Si
- 29 December 1997
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 71 (26) , 3862-3864
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.120527
Abstract
The relative contributions of interstitials and vacancies to diffusion of a dopant A in silicon are specified by the interstitial fraction of diffusivity, fA. Accurate knowledge of fA is required for predictive simulations of Si processing during which the point defect population is perturbed, such as transient enhanced diffusion. While experimental determination of fA is traditionally based on an underdetermined system of equations, we show here that it is actually possible to derive expressions that give meaningful bounds on fA without any further assumptions but that of local equilibrium. By employing a pair of dopants under the same point-defect perturbance, and by utilizing perturbances very far from equilibrium, we obtain experimentally fSb⩽0.012 and fB⩾0.98 at temperatures of ∼800 °C, which are the strictest bounds reported to date. Our results are in agreement with a theoretical expectation that a substitutional dopant in Si should either be a pure vacancy, or a pure interstitial(cy) diffuser.Keywords
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