The nature of lifetime-degrading boron-oxygen centres revealed by comparison of p-type and n-type silicon

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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Titel des SammelwerksGettering and Defect Engineering in Semiconductor Technology XIV, GADEST2011
Seiten139-146
Seitenumfang8
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2011
Extern publiziertJa
Veranstaltung14th International Biannual Meeting on Gettering and Defect Engineering in Semiconductor Technology, GADEST2011 - Loipersdorf, Österreich
Dauer: 25 Sept. 201130 Sept. 2011

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NameSolid State Phenomena
Band178-179
ISSN (Print)1012-0394

Abstract

Illumination-induced degradation of minority carrier lifetime was studied in n-type Czochralski silicon co-doped with phosphorus and boron. The recombination centre that emerges is found to be identical to the fast-stage centre (FRC) known for p-Si where it is produced at a rate proportional to the squared hole concentration, p2. Since holes in n-Si are excess carriers of a relatively low concentration, the time scale of FRC generation in n-Si is increased by several orders of magnitude. The generation kinetics is non-linear, due to the dependence of p on the concentration of FRC and this non-linearity is well reproduced by simulations. The injection level dependence of the lifetime shows that FRC exists in 3 charge states (-1, 0, +1) possessing 2 energy levels. The recombination is controlled by both levels. The proper identification of FRC is a BsO2 complex of a substitutional boron and an oxygen dimer. The nature of the major lifetime-degrading centre in n-Si is thus different from that in p-Si - where the dominant one (a slow-stage centre, SRC) was found to be BiO 2 - a complex involving an interstitial boron.

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The nature of lifetime-degrading boron-oxygen centres revealed by comparison of p-type and n-type silicon. / Voronkov, V. V.; Falster, R.; Bothe, K. et al.
Gettering and Defect Engineering in Semiconductor Technology XIV, GADEST2011. 2011. S. 139-146 (Solid State Phenomena; Band 178-179).

Publikation: Beitrag in Buch/Bericht/Sammelwerk/KonferenzbandAufsatz in KonferenzbandForschungPeer-Review

Voronkov, VV, Falster, R, Bothe, K, Lim, B & Schmidt, J 2011, The nature of lifetime-degrading boron-oxygen centres revealed by comparison of p-type and n-type silicon. in Gettering and Defect Engineering in Semiconductor Technology XIV, GADEST2011. Solid State Phenomena, Bd. 178-179, S. 139-146, 14th International Biannual Meeting on Gettering and Defect Engineering in Semiconductor Technology, GADEST2011, Loipersdorf, Österreich, 25 Sept. 2011. https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.178-179.139
Voronkov, V. V., Falster, R., Bothe, K., Lim, B., & Schmidt, J. (2011). The nature of lifetime-degrading boron-oxygen centres revealed by comparison of p-type and n-type silicon. In Gettering and Defect Engineering in Semiconductor Technology XIV, GADEST2011 (S. 139-146). (Solid State Phenomena; Band 178-179). https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.178-179.139
Voronkov VV, Falster R, Bothe K, Lim B, Schmidt J. The nature of lifetime-degrading boron-oxygen centres revealed by comparison of p-type and n-type silicon. in Gettering and Defect Engineering in Semiconductor Technology XIV, GADEST2011. 2011. S. 139-146. (Solid State Phenomena). Epub 2011 Aug 16. doi: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.178-179.139
Voronkov, V. V. ; Falster, R. ; Bothe, K. et al. / The nature of lifetime-degrading boron-oxygen centres revealed by comparison of p-type and n-type silicon. Gettering and Defect Engineering in Semiconductor Technology XIV, GADEST2011. 2011. S. 139-146 (Solid State Phenomena).
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