Effect of hydrogen on shallow dopants in crystalline silicon
- 13 April 1987
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 50 (15) , 995-997
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.97957
Abstract
Passivation of shallow impurities by H has been attributed to H-impurity pairing in both p-type and n-type Si. We show that existing interpretations of data were based on contradictory assumptions and that a coherent interpretation of all the data can only be obtained if one assumes that diffusing H has a donor level in the gap. A novel interpretation emerges: In p-type material, passivation is due to direct compensation, so that pairing is a consequence, not a cause of passivation; in n-type material, passivation is indeed due to pairing, but is suppressed by H2 formation and possibly other reactions. Several predictions are made and new experiments are proposed as tests.Keywords
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