Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations have been used to investigate mechanisms for boron clustering in crystalline and preamorphized Si. We have extended previous boron-interstitial cluster models to include larger and more stable complexes in order to reproduce boron cluster evolution at very high boron concentrations. We have investigated the stoichiometry of boron-interstitial clusters resulting from low temperature recrystallization of preamorphized layers. We have performed a dedicated experiment based on boron implanted into preamorphized Si with end-of-range defects placed far enough from the boron profile to avoid the interaction between end-of-range defects and resulting boron-interstitial clusters after recrystallization. Hall measurements on active B dose combined with a systematic analysis performed by Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations indicate that initial boron-interstitial clusters after recrystallization should not contain a high amount of Si interstitials. Otherwise, boron deactivation and subsequent reactivation will occur faster than experimentally observed. The present results suggest B(3) and B(3) I clusters as the most probable configurations after recrystallization. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Evolution of boron-interstitial clusters in preamorphized silicon without the contribution of end-of-range defects

NAPOLITANI, ENRICO
2008

Abstract

Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations have been used to investigate mechanisms for boron clustering in crystalline and preamorphized Si. We have extended previous boron-interstitial cluster models to include larger and more stable complexes in order to reproduce boron cluster evolution at very high boron concentrations. We have investigated the stoichiometry of boron-interstitial clusters resulting from low temperature recrystallization of preamorphized layers. We have performed a dedicated experiment based on boron implanted into preamorphized Si with end-of-range defects placed far enough from the boron profile to avoid the interaction between end-of-range defects and resulting boron-interstitial clusters after recrystallization. Hall measurements on active B dose combined with a systematic analysis performed by Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations indicate that initial boron-interstitial clusters after recrystallization should not contain a high amount of Si interstitials. Otherwise, boron deactivation and subsequent reactivation will occur faster than experimentally observed. The present results suggest B(3) and B(3) I clusters as the most probable configurations after recrystallization. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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