Photoluminescence detection of impurities introduced in silicon by dry etching processes |
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Authors: | J. Weber R. J. Davis H. -U. Habermeier W. D. Sawyer M. Singh |
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Affiliation: | (1) Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Heisenbergstrasse 1, D-7000 Stuttgart 80, Fed. Rep. Germany;(2) Present address: School of Applied and Engineering Physics and The National Submicron Facility, Cornell University, 14853 Ithaca, NY, USA |
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Abstract: | We report on a photoluminescence study of silicon samples subjected to different dry etching processes. Several luminescence lines, known from defects produced by high-energy irradiation, manifest damage of the crystalline material. Noble gas ion beam etching (using Ne+, Ar+, Kr+, and Xe+) with ion energies as low as 400 eV produces characteristic luminescence lines which correspond to defects within a 200–300 Å thick surface layer. Incorporation of carbon during CF4 reactive ion etching produces the familiar G-line defect. The G-line photoluminescence intensity in our samples is directly correlated with the substitutional carbon concentration, as determined by infrared absorption measurements before the etch process; we therefore suggest that a simple method to determine the substitutional carbon concentration in a crystalline silicon sample is a standard dry etching process and a comparison of the resulting G-line photoluminescence intensity to a calibrated sample. The sensitivity of this method seems to be better than 1014 carbon atoms/cm3. |
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Keywords: | 78.55DS 61.80Jh 71.35 +z |
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