Behavior of defects in heavily boron doped Czochralski silicon

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作者
Ono, T [1 ]
Asayama, E [1 ]
Horie, H [1 ]
Hourai, M [1 ]
Sano, M [1 ]
Tsuya, R [1 ]
Nakai, K [1 ]
机构
[1] EHIME UNIV, FAC ENGN, DEPT MAT SCI & ENGN, MATSUYAMA, EHIME 790, JAPAN
来源
JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS PART 2-LETTERS & EXPRESS LETTERS | 1997年 / 36卷 / 3A期
关键词
Czochralski-silicon; heavily boron doped silicon; defect behavior; precipitate morphology; transmission electron microscopy;
D O I
10.1143/JJAP.36.L249
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O59 [应用物理学];
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摘要
Defect behaviors in heavily boron doped silicon, with boron concentration ranging from 7.1 x 10(17) to 3.1 x 10(19) atoms/cm(3), were studied using transmission electron microscopy. The oxygen precipitation and the change of the precipitate morphology from plate to polyhedral were observed to be enhanced with increasing boron concentration. However: in wafers with the highest boron concentration, precipitate density decreased, and aggregations of small polyhedral precipitates on the {110} planes were observed. It was also found that as the boron concentration was increased, the precipitate size reduced and the type of secondary induced defects changed from punching-out dislocations to stacking faults due to the reduction in a crystal lattice strain.
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页码:L249 / L252
页数:4
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