Issue |
Eur. Phys. J. AP
Volume 23, Number 1, July 2003
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Page(s) | 19 - 23 | |
Section | Semiconductors and Devices | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap:2002115 | |
Published online | 29 November 2002 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap:2002115
Evolution of He-induced cavities and related defects in silicon studied by direct scattering of channeled particles
1
PHASE/CNRS, 23 rue du loess, BP 20, 67037 Strasbourg Cedex, France
2
LMP, 16 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, BP 7155, 37071 Tours Cedex, France
Corresponding author: jean-jacques.grob@phase.c-strasbourg.fr
Received:
23
May
2002
Revised:
20
August
2002
Accepted:
30
August
2002
Published online:
29
November
2002
The number of scattering centres measured using channeled particles passing through a cavity layer formed by He implantation in silicon is shown to depend on the probe energy. This unusual result is explained in terms of interaction of channeled particles with atoms of cavity walls and dislocation lines. The Rutherford backscattering analysis in channeling incidence (RBS-C) is then used to study the time evolution of cavity and dislocation populations during annealing. It is shown that cavities are actually bubbles in equilibrium with the silicon matrix. The time to reach this equilibrium is related to the gas desorption. For our experimental conditions (40 keV, 5 × 1016 cm−2 and 800 °C), this equilibration time is about 10 minutes. Strain and dislocation build-up occur under shorter time scales, during which bubbles are probably overpressurized. The pinning of bubbles at dislocations must be taken into account to explain the evolution of these extended defects over a longer period.
PACS: 61.85.+p – Channeling phenomena (blocking, energy loss, etc.) / 61.72.Tt – Doping and impurity implantation in germanium and silicon / 61.72.Ff – Direct observation of dislocations and other defects (etch pits, decoration, electron microscopy, X-ray topography, etc.)
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