Near-surface defects formed during rapid thermal annealing of preamorphized and BF+2-implanted silicon
- 1 November 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 45 (9) , 982-984
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.95446
Abstract
Near‐surface defects formed during rapid thermal annealing (950–1150 °C, 10 s) of preamorphized and BF+2‐implanted (100) Si have been studied by a combination of cross‐sectional transmission electron microscopy and secondary‐ion mass spectrometry. Two types of defects are identified: fine clusters (1.5–4 nm in diameter) are shown to be related to fluorine, and stacking faults are correlated with the presence of both excess boron above the solid solubility limit and fluorine. In addition, the peak fluorine concentration is found to be lower in samples which contain a high density (∼108 cm−2) of ‘‘hairpin’’ dislocations, indicating that a pipe diffusion mechanism for the rapid out‐diffusion of fluorine may be operative.Keywords
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