Evidence for ion irradiation induced dissociation and reconstruction of Si-H bonds in hydrogen-implanted silicon Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We observe that H-related chemical bonds formed in H-implanted Si will evolve under subsequent ion irradiation. During ion irradiation hydrogen is inclined to dissociate from simple H-related defect complexes (i.e., VHx and IHx), diffuse, and attach to vacancy-type defects resulting in new platelet formation, which facilitate surface blistering after annealing, a process completely inhibited in the absence of ion irradiation. The understanding of our results provides insight into the structure and stability of hydrogen-related defects in silicon.

published proceedings

  • APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

author list (cited authors)

  • Di, Z. F., Wang, Y. Q., Nastasi, M., Shao, L., Lee, J. K., & Theodore, N. D.

citation count

  • 18

complete list of authors

  • Di, ZF||Wang, YQ||Nastasi, M||Shao, L||Lee, JK||Theodore, ND

publication date

  • September 2008