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MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING B-SOLID STATE MATERIALS FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
Volume 71, Issue -, Pages 160-165Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-5107(99)00367-0
Keywords
silicon; zinc; vacancies; diffusion; point-defects; precipitates
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We have performed Zn out-diffusion experiments in homogeneously Zn-doped Si in the temperature range from 850 to 1207 degrees C. Diffusion profiles of Zn measured by spreading-resistance profiling are accurately described on the basis of the simultaneous occurrence of the kick-out and the dissociative diffusion mechanisms. Compared to Zn in-diffusion, Zn out-diffusion tends to be dominated by the dissociative mechanism, i.e. preferentially in regions of high Zn concentration. Numerical modeling of the out-diffusion profiles yields fairly reliable data for the vacancy transport coefficient C(v)(eq)D(v). In contrast, an accurate determination of the vacancy equilibrium concentrations C(v)(eq) presumably suffers from vacancy agglomerates whose formation is driven by the vacancy supersaturation arising from the dissociative out-diffusion of Zn. Microscopic defects decorated with Cu(3)Si have been detected after the out-diffusion process by preferential etching and transmission electron microscope analysis. A tentative explanation for the observed Cu(3)Si precipitates invokes their nucleation on vacancy clusters. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.
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