Ryan Weed Centre for Antimatter- Matter Studies VACANCY CLUSTERS IN SELF-ION IMPLANTED GERMANIUM STUDIED WITH PALS
BEAMLINE OVERVIEW
Transport coils Trap Source Sample station detector
PALS ANALYSIS
MOTIVATION Germanium is a good candidate to replace Silicon in CMOS devices 3-4 times higher mobility (determines device speed)
MOTIVATION Implantation induced defects effect electrical activation Dopant-defect relationship not well understood in Ge Diffusion mechanisms dissimilar to Si Positrons well suited to study evolution of vacancy type defects under thermal treatment
ION IMPLANTATION 800 keV Ge + implantation Fluence between 3x10 12 and 3x10 14 cm -2 Vacancy and interstitials damage distribution simulated in SRIM
RBS RESULTS
As-implanted Annealed High fluence sample ‘amorphized’ by ion implantation No damage detected in low fluence sample SPEG of amorphous region complete at 400 C anneal
PALS RESULTS Vacancy clusters formed in both samples Cluster size expected in magic numbers (N=6,10,14) Clusters dissolve at 500 C in both samples
VARIABLE ENERGY PALS 2,10,18keV positron energies performed on 400 C annealed samples Similar lifetime distribution for amorphous and sub- amorphous implants Intensity distributions differ Mobility differences or SPEG effect
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