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Type: 
Conference
Description: 
We investigated the activation of B in Si by a millisecond annealing process performed by infrared laser annealing. Reference samples were annealed in a lamp based rapid thermal annealing system at 200degC/s. We found that comparable diffusion length (~25 nm), the laser annealed samples show a Rs ~430 Omegasquare, corresponding to an active dose a factor two higher relative to lamp annealed samples. The laser annealing/activation process, lasting for just a few milliseconds, is likely characterized by the absence of B-interstitial clusters formation and precedes by far the regime known as "transient diffusion" with a duration of at least a few seconds at temperatures above 1000degC and which is driven by the formation/dissolution of large clusters involving B atoms.
Publisher: 
IEEE
Publication date: 
2 Oct 2007
Authors: 

Giovanni Mannino, Antonino La Magna, Vittorio Privitera, Jens S Christensen, Lasse Vines, Bengt G Svensson

Biblio References: 
Pages: 297-299
Origin: 
2007 15th International Conference on Advanced Thermal Processing of Semiconductors