Effect of substrate temperature on the radiation damage from MeV Si implantation in Si Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We have investigated the radiation damage by MeV implantation of Si in Si and its evolution under thermal annealing. Si wafers were implanted with MeV Si at various substrate temperatures. Damages were characterized by Rutherford-backscattering (RBS) channeling and by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Defect formation after post-implantation annealing is very sensitive to the substrate temperatures during implantation. When the substrate temperature was decreased to 200 K, TEM revealed two distinct bands of damage after annealing: one around the mean projected ion range and another at half the projected range. Our study indicates that the formation of defects at half range results from the solid phase epitaxy growth of initial buried amorphous layers. 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

published proceedings

  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

author list (cited authors)

  • Yu, X. K., Shao, L., Rusakova, I., Wang, X. M., Ma, K. B., Chen, H., Liu, J., & Chu, W.

citation count

  • 3

complete list of authors

  • Yu, XK||Shao, Lin||Rusakova, Irene||Wang, XM||Ma, KB||Chen, H||Liu, Jiarui||Chu, Wei-Kan

publication date

  • January 2006