Si Surface Orientation Dependence of SiC Nano-Dot Formation in Hot-C+ -Ion Implanted Bulk-Si Substrate

Abstract

We experimentally studied the Si surface orientation dependence of SiC nano-dot formation in a hot-C⁺-ion implanted bulk-Si substrate (C⁺-bulk Si), to analyze the effects of Si atom surface density on SiC nano-dot formation in Si and the photoluminescence (PL) property. We successfully demonstrated SiC dot formation even in (110) and (111) C⁺-bulk Si, too. SiC dot size and density of (110) C⁺-bulk Si is larger than those of (100) C⁺-bulk Si. The photoluminescence (PL) properties of C⁺-bulk Si strongly depend on the Si surface orientation, and the PL intensity is the minimum in (110) C⁺-bulk Si with lowest Si atom surface density.