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Bragg-Surface diffraction (BSD) : high resolution microprobe to study ion implanted semiconductors

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Author(s):
Renata Villela Orloski
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Doctoral Thesis
Press: Campinas, SP.
Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin
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Examining board members:
Lisandro Pavie Cardoso; Marcelo Assaoka Hayashi; Vera lucia Mazzocchi; Márcio Alberto Araújo Pudenzi; Mário Antônio Bica de Moraes
Advisor: Lisandro Pavie Cardoso
Abstract

In this work, the Bragg-Surface Diffraction (BSD), a special case of the X-ray Multiple Diffraction, was used as a surface microprobe with resolution to detect the defects created close to the crystal-amorphous (c-a) interface in shallow junctions of B in Si, as well as a novel technique for characterization of semiconductors (GaAs) under Si ions implantation. Renninger scan is the record of the X-ray intensity diffracted by the planes, normally parallel to the single crystal surface, as a function of the ö rotation around the normal to these planes. It exhibits peaks as matrix lattice contributions and, in our case, if the diffracted beam is propagated along the planes, the peaks are called Bragg-Surface Diffraction (BSD) and, one has shown, by the first time, that this diffraction carries information on the c-a interface. Contributions from the shallow junction implanted regions, detected in the matrix lattice scan (hybrid peaks), allowed to determine the presence of interstitial Si, that is responsible for the B diffusion, and to estimate the B junction depth in Si pre-amorphizied by F ions. This result confirms that found by Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy (SIMS). The study of the effect of the energy and implantation current density as well as the thermal energy allowed to determine the best conditions for the optimization of the doping diffusion and lattice recrystallization process, aiming to the shallow junction preparation. On the other hand, the mapping of the BSD peak diffraction condition gave rise to the direct observation of both processes (recrystallization and diffusion). Lattice parameters and crystalline perfection were determined on the GaAs(001) matrix surface by using Multiple Diffraction and the BSD peak simulation has shown that low implantation doses of Si ions has caused strongest damages on the GaAS surface plane. To the contrary, in high doses this effect is strongly reduced by the intense amorphization close to the c-a interface. The BSD mappings have shown enough sensitivity to detect the implanted region formation as a function of the Si implantation dose in GaAs samples (AU)