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Understanding and Controlling Transient Enhanced Dopant Diffusion in Silicon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

P.A. Stolk,
H.-J. Gossmann,
D.J. Eaglesham,
D.C. Jacobson,
H.S. Luftman and
J.M. Poate
P.A. Stolk
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA
H.-J. Gossmann
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA
D.J. Eaglesham
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA
D.C. Jacobson
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA
H.S. Luftman
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 9999 Hamilton Boulevard, Breinigsville, PA 18031, USA
J.M. Poate
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA
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Abstract

Implanted B and P dopants in Si exhibit transient enhanced diffusion (TED) during initial annealing which arises from the excess interstitials generated by the implant. In order to study the mechanisms of TED, we have used B doping marker layers in Si to probe the injection of interstitials from near-surface, non-amorphizing Si implants during annealing. The in-diffusion of interstitials is limited by trapping at impurities and has an activation energy of -3.5 eV. Substitutional C is the dominant trapping center with a binding energy of 2-2.5 eV. The high interstitial supersaturation adjacent to the implant damage drives substitutional B into metastable clusters at concentrations below the B solid solubility limit. Transmission electron microscopy shows that the interstitials driving TED are emitted from {311} defect clusters in the damage region at a rate which also exhibits an activation energy of 3.6 eV. The population of excess interstitials is strongly reduced by incorporating substitutional C in Si to levels of ∼1019/cm3 prior to ion implantation. This provides a promising method for suppressing TED, thus enabling shallow junction formation in future Si devices through dopant implantation.

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