{"title":"Refined Analysis of Low-Temperature Data of Hall-Effect Measurements on Sb-Doped n-Ge on the Basis of an Impurity-Hubbard-Band Model","authors":"Y. Kajikawa","doi":"10.1002/PSSC.201700151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/PSSC.201700151","url":null,"abstract":"The Hall-effect measurement data on Sb-doped n-Ge reported by Fritzsche [J. Phys. Chem. Solids 6, 69 (1958)] have been analyzed considering not only the bottom Hubbard band formed from the neutral donor (D0) states but also the top Hubbard band formed from the negatively charged donor (D−) states. Taking into account the degeneracy factors for the D0 and D− states as well as the dependence of the dielectric constant on the concentration of the D0 states, simultaneous fits to the experimental data of the temperature-dependent conductivity and the Hall coefficient have been performed with assuming the hopping drift mobility expressed as μi = μ0i(Eμi/kBT)3/2exp(−Eμi/kBT) and the hopping Hall factor expressed as AHi = (kBT/IHi)exp(KHEμi/kBT), where i = 2 and 3 for the top and the bottom Hubbard band, respectively. The deduced values of Eμ3 from the fits have been proved to be well explained by the molecular-pair theory. The energy separation U between the top and the bottom Hubbard band has also been obtained through the fits with assuming U = Eμ2. It is shown that the fits have been satisfactorily performed with assuming a constant value of KH= 2/3.","PeriodicalId":20065,"journal":{"name":"Physica Status Solidi (c)","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79199991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Shcherbachev, V. Mordkovich, E. Skryleva, D. Kiselev
{"title":"Influence of the Chemical Activity of Implanted Ions on the Structure of the Damaged Si Layer in SIMOX Substrates","authors":"K. Shcherbachev, V. Mordkovich, E. Skryleva, D. Kiselev","doi":"10.1002/PSSC.201700137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/PSSC.201700137","url":null,"abstract":"High-resolution X-ray diffraction (HRXRD), X-ray reflectometry (XRR), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and Atomic-force microscopy (AFM) were used to study the influence of the chemical activity of implanted ions (N+, O+, F+ or Ne+) on the structure of the damaged Si layer in SIMOX substrates. The implantation conditions were chosen so that the number of primary defects and the projected range were approximately the same for the implanted ions. HRXRD showed that the depth distribution of the residual damage depends on the chemical activity of the impurity. This may result from the quasi-chemical interaction between the radiation-induced point defects (VSi and Sii) and the impurity atoms. The shape of the density profiles and the thickness of the transition surface layer obtained from the XRR data are different for the implanted ions. The [100] faceted surface features of the samples prepared by SIMOX technology are preserved after implantation with the ions. AFM revealed a reduction of the lateral correlation length. The magnitude of this effect depends on the chemical activity of the implanted ions. Silicon oxidation at a depth of 10–15 nm is shown by XPS to change depending on the implanted ion.","PeriodicalId":20065,"journal":{"name":"Physica Status Solidi (c)","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88464209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Bellanger, S. B. Shivarudraiah, C. Leuvrey, A. Dinia, G. Schmerber, F. Jomard, A. Ulyashin, T. Fix, S. Roques, Florian Mugler, A. Slaoui
{"title":"Crystalline silicon growth on aluminum substrate for photovoltaic application","authors":"P. Bellanger, S. B. Shivarudraiah, C. Leuvrey, A. Dinia, G. Schmerber, F. Jomard, A. Ulyashin, T. Fix, S. Roques, Florian Mugler, A. Slaoui","doi":"10.1002/PSSC.201700173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/PSSC.201700173","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we investigate the direct formation of crystalline silicon thin films using ECR-PECVD process on aluminum substrates for solar cells applications. The aluminum substrate offers the advantages of being flexible and highly reflective in addition to serve as the back contact for the cell device. The substrates were pure aluminum or silicon rich aluminum sheets. Monocrystalline silicon substrates were used as reference substrates. Silane and hydrogen were used as precursor gases. Silicon growth was done at different substrate temperatures. The grown silicon films were characterized by Raman spectroscopy, SIMS and XRD techniques. Silicon thicknesses between 230 and 1370 nm were obtained on different types of aluminum substrates. The analyses show that the grown silicon films formed at 480 °C under SiH4: 40 sccm and H2 = 10 sccm are amorphous silicon at the initial stage and become nanocrystalline (nc-Si:H) as the deposition proceeds. The crystalline fraction of those films extracted from Raman spectra is found around 40–60% and XRD analysis shows grain silicon size between 41 and 83 A. Finally, SIMS analysis have revealed graded doping distribution profiles which is indicative of the formation of a nc-Si:H(i)/nc-Si:H (p+)/Al substrate, well suited for solar cell structures.","PeriodicalId":20065,"journal":{"name":"Physica Status Solidi (c)","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84470393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Sekiguchi, Woong Lee, Xianjia Luo, T. Kimura, Yujin Cho
{"title":"Cathodoluminescence study of killer defects in GaN wafers on sapphire substrates","authors":"T. Sekiguchi, Woong Lee, Xianjia Luo, T. Kimura, Yujin Cho","doi":"10.1002/PSSC.201700054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/PSSC.201700054","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20065,"journal":{"name":"Physica Status Solidi (c)","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76829314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The beginning of wine and viticulture","authors":"S. Estreicher","doi":"10.1002/pssc.201700008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pssc.201700008","url":null,"abstract":"The wild ancestor of most of today’s grape cultivars is the eastern Vitis vinifera sylvestris. Archaeological, genetic, ampelographic, and linguistic evidence point to Transcaucasia (today’s Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan) and Eastern Anatolia as the regions where V.v. sylvestris was domesticated and the first wines made. This occurred in early Neolithic times, over 8000 years ago. But the earliest-known archeological and chemical proof of wine-making is just over 7000 years old. It was unearthed at Hajji Firuz Tepe, a Neolithic site in North-Western Iran. It took thousands of years for wine and viticulture to reach Western Europe and the rest of the world. The key points of the early history of wine and viticulture are the topic of this contribution.","PeriodicalId":20065,"journal":{"name":"Physica Status Solidi (c)","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76992633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ryosuke Okuyama, S. Shigematsu, R. Hirose, Ayumi Masada, T. Kadono, Yoshihiro Koga, Hidehiko Okuda, K. Kurita
{"title":"Trapping and diffusion behaviour of hydrogen simulated with TCAD in projection range of carbon‐cluster implanted silicon epitaxial wafers for CMOS image sensors","authors":"Ryosuke Okuyama, S. Shigematsu, R. Hirose, Ayumi Masada, T. Kadono, Yoshihiro Koga, Hidehiko Okuda, K. Kurita","doi":"10.1002/PSSC.201700036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/PSSC.201700036","url":null,"abstract":"The trapping and diffusion behaviour of hydrogen in projection range of carbon-cluster was investigated by using a technology computer aided design (TCAD) simulation for high performance complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors. The hydrogen behaviour seemingly contributes to passivating the interface state density of the isolation region and process-induced defects during the CMOS image sensor fabrication process. This hydrogen behaviour was simulated by a TCAD simulation assuming a reaction model in which the cluster of carbon and silicon self-interstitial (carbon-interstitial cluster) binds to hydrogen. We found that the hydrogen profiles of TCAD agreed with the secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) results after epitaxial growth and high-temperature heat-treatment, thus suggesting that the hydrogen in the projection range of the carbon cluster forms a binding state with the carbon-interstitial cluster. In addition, hydrogen gradually diffused out from the projection range of the carbon-cluster after high-temperature heat-treatment. Therefore, the hydrogen behaviour in projection range of the carbon-cluster is considered to contribute to the CMOS image sensor fabrication process to achieve high electrical performance.","PeriodicalId":20065,"journal":{"name":"Physica Status Solidi (c)","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88454583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of fountain detectors for spectroscopy of secondary electron in SEM","authors":"T. Agemura, H. Iwai, T. Sekiguchi","doi":"10.1002/PSSC.201700057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/PSSC.201700057","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20065,"journal":{"name":"Physica Status Solidi (c)","volume":"88 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83834993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Arutyunov, V. Emtsev, M. Elsayed, R. Krause-Rehberg, N. Abrosimov, G. Oganesyan, V. Kozlovski
{"title":"Positron probing of open vacancy volume of phosphorus‐vacancy complexes in float‐zone n‐type silicon irradiated by 0.9‐MeV electrons and by 15‐MeV protons","authors":"N. Arutyunov, V. Emtsev, M. Elsayed, R. Krause-Rehberg, N. Abrosimov, G. Oganesyan, V. Kozlovski","doi":"10.1002/PSSC.201700120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/PSSC.201700120","url":null,"abstract":"For the first time the samples, cut from the same wafer of crystals of float-zone silicon, n−FZ−Si(P) and n−FZ−Si(Bi), were subjected to irradiation with 0.9-MeV electrons and 15-MeV protons at RT for studying them by low-temperature positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy. Measurements of Hall effect have been used for the materials characterization. The discussion is focused on the open vacancy volume (Vop) of the thermally stable group-V-impurity-vacancy complexes comprising the phosphorus atoms; the bismuth-related vacancy complexes are briefly considered. The data of positron probing of PV pairs (E-centers), divacancies, and the thermally stable defects in the irradiated n−FZ−Si(P) materials are compared. Beyond a reliable detecting of the defect-related positron annihilation lifetime in the course of isochronal annealing at ∼ 500 °C, the recovery of concentration of phosphorus-related shallow donor states continues up to ∼650–700 °C. The open vacancy volumes Vop to be characterized by long positron lifetimes Δτ2 ∼271–289 ps in (gr.-V-atom)–Vop complexes are compared with theoretical data available for the vacancies, τ(V1), and divacancies, τ(V2). The extended semi-vacancies, 2Vs-ext, and relaxed vacancies, 2Vinw, are proposed as the open volume Vop in (gr.-V-atom)–Vop complexes. It is argued that at high annealing temperature the defect Ps–Vop–Ps is decomposed.","PeriodicalId":20065,"journal":{"name":"Physica Status Solidi (c)","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73921986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A photo‐elastic microscopy study of the temperature dependency of stress induced by through silicon vias in silicon","authors":"M. Herms, M. Wagner, J. Messemaeker, I. Wolf","doi":"10.1002/PSSC.201700028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/PSSC.201700028","url":null,"abstract":"SIREX (Scanning Infrared Stress Explorer) is a photo-elastic microscope in this case applied to characterize the temperature dependence of stress induced by copper Through Silicon Via (TSV) structures in silicon. The temperature was varied between 285 and 320 K. SIREX provides images of the lateral distribution of Δσ being the difference of the in-plane principal stress components. The single TSV as well as the TSV group are considered as point-like stress sources. The related single radial profiles of Δσ are quantitatively analysed. It is confirmed that the profiles at large distance from the TSV can be described by Lame's law (Δσ ∼ R-m, m ≈ 2) modified by a term of temperature dependency. The stress decreases linearly with temperature. These experiments allow for estimating the zero stress temperature.","PeriodicalId":20065,"journal":{"name":"Physica Status Solidi (c)","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89858917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Müller, M. Gehmlich, G. Kissinger, D. Kot, A. Sattler, Alfred Miller, E. Daub
{"title":"Study on defect annealing potential and bulk micro defect formation using high temperature RTA conditions for Cz‐grown silicon","authors":"T. Müller, M. Gehmlich, G. Kissinger, D. Kot, A. Sattler, Alfred Miller, E. Daub","doi":"10.1002/PSSC.201700119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/PSSC.201700119","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the key parameters of a rapid thermal annealing (RTA) nitriding step are discussed with respect to vacancy- and oxygen precipitate (BMD)-profile formation. These RTA key performance parameters are the maximum NH3 dissociation temperature (i), the temperature stability of the stored vacancy peak (ii), and the defect dissolution capability of self Si agglomerates at elevated temperatures (iii). This parameter study could be helpful for a future model of the vacancy in-diffusion process into the Si near surface region. Especially the gate oxide integrity (GOI) is an important parameter to establish long life cycles in current memory devices. After NH3 RTA processing, it was surprisingly found that the GOI defect level is still influenced by small-sized grown in particles. It is demonstrated that a complete restoration toward a high GOI signal can be achieved via a 1300 °C RTA step. The gate oxide integrity is afterwards as good as observed on a defect free polished CZ wafer.","PeriodicalId":20065,"journal":{"name":"Physica Status Solidi (c)","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78692370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}