The regrowth and impurity diffusion processes in the arc annealing of ion-implanted silicon

Abstract
The strong diffusion model has been used to solve the one-dimensional heat conduction equation in the light-flash annealing of ion-implanted silicon. The threshold energy for surface melting, the depth of melting, the recrystallization velocity, and the dopant redistribution at different irradiation energy densities for a pulse duration of 100 μs have been computed. Liquid-phase impurity diffusion has been used for the calculation of dopant distributions after arc annealing.