ANALYSIS OF RAPID THERMAL ANNEALINGS OF BORON AND ARSENIC IN POLYSILICON EMITTER STRUCTURES

The codiffusion of implanted boron and arsenic during rapid thermal annealing in a polysilicon/monocrystalline silicon system used for high speed bipolar integrated circuit technology has been investigated. Such a process allows a uniformly high concentration in the emitter regions. It induces a very shallow emitter-base junction depth for an n-p-n transistor. On the contrary, in p-n-p configuration, when the arsenic dose is lower than the boron dose, boron deeply penetrates the single-crystal silicon, causing problems for fabricating shallow junctions. The rapid thermal annealing-induced redistribution of arsenic and boron implanted at various implant doses in a 380 nm low-pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) polysilicon layer has been studied by secondary ion mass spectroscopy measurements. A strong lowering of the minority dopant diffusion in the polysilicon film is observed due to the high concentration of the other dopant. This effect is mainly related to grain boundary trap saturation while the electric field issued from dopant activation in the fastly recrystallized amorphous layer due to arsenic implantation in the upper region of the LPCVD film has a lesser effect. Transmission electron microscopy measurements show that recrystallization extends deeper than the amorphous layer, which is responsible for the increase of grain size. Sheet resistance measurements have been performed as an approach to the electrical behavior for these structures.