Hostname: page-component-7b7567c8c-jswmv Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-11-15T10:01:29.984Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Thermal Donor Formation by the Agglomeration of Oxygen in Silicon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

U. GÖsele
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Fed. Rep. Germany
T. Y. Tan
Affiliation:
IBM Th. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, N. Y. 10598, USA
Get access

Abstract

We suggest that thermal donor formation in silicon involves fast-diffusing, gas-like molecular oxygen in dynamical equilibrium with atomic oxygen in interstitial position. We will discuss still remaining difficulties in understanding thermal donor formation in the light of recent experimental observations by Stavola, Patel, Kimerling and Treeland, indicating that the diffusivity of interstitial oxygen apparently depends on the thermal history of the silicon sample.

Information

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1982

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable