High-energy recoil implantation of boron into silicon

Lin Shao, Xinming Lu, Jianyue Jin, Qinmian Li, Jiarui Liu, P. A.W. Van Der Heide, Wei Kan Chu

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Abstract

One approach to fabricate shallow junctions made of B-doped Si is to deposit B on Si, followed by knocking the B into the Si substrate with Si ions. Conventional belief is that the higher the implantation energy, the deeper the recoil profile. While this is true for low-energy incident ions, we show here that the situation is reversed for incident Si ions of higher energy due to the fact that recoil probability at a given angle is a strong function of the energy of the primary projectile. Our experiments show that 500 keV high-energy recoil implantation produces a shallower B profile than lower-energy implantation such as 10 and 50 keV. The secondary ion mass spectrometry analysis shows that the distribution of recoiled B atoms scattered by the energetic Si ions agrees with that calculated on the basis of interatomic potential suggested by W. D. Wilson, L. G. Haagmark, and J. P. Biersack [Phys. Rev. B 15, 2458 (1977)]. Sub-100 nm p+ /n junctions have been realized with a 500 keV Si ion beam.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)3953-3955
Number of pages3
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume76
Issue number26
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 26 2000

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  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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