Rapid Thermal Annealing of High Energy Si Implants Into GaAs

1987 ◽  
Vol 92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald N. Legge ◽  
Wayne M. Paulson

ABSTRACTRapid thermal annealing (RTA) technology offers potential advantages for the processing of ion implanted GaAs. High energy implants of 300 keV or above are used for power MESFETs as well as in the ohmic contacts for low noise devices. The purpose of this paper is to investigate and characterize the RTA of Si implants into LEC GaAs using implant energies of 300keV and above, and a range of doses from 2.3 ×1012 to 3×1014 /cm2. The wafers were analyzed using capacitance-voltage and Hall measurements. Factors which cause variability in pinchoff voltage are identified and an RTA process comparable to conventional furnace annealing is presented for low dose implants. Superior implant activation is observed for higher dose implants through the use of higher annealing temperature.

1987 ◽  
Vol 92 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Ma ◽  
M. Natan ◽  
B.S. Lim ◽  
M-A. Nicolet

ABSTRACTSilicide formation induced by rapid thermal annealing (RTA) and conventional furnace annealing (CFA) in bilayers of sequentially deposited films of amorphous silicon and polycrystalline Co or Ni is studied with RBS, X-ray diffraction and TEM. Particular attention is paid to the reliability of the RTA temperature measurements in the study of the growth kinetics of the first interfacial compound, Co2Si and Ni2Si, for both RTA and CFA. It is found that the same diffusion-controlled kinetics applies for the silicide formation by RTA in argon and CFA in vacuum with a common activation energy of 2.1+0.2eV for Co2Si and 1.3+0.2eV for Ni Si. Co and Ni atoms are the dominant diffusing species; during silicide formation by both RTA and CFA. The microstructures of the Ni-silicide formed by the two annealing techniques, however, differs considerably from each other, as revealed by cross-sectional TEM studies.


1984 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Kanber ◽  
R. J. Cipolli ◽  
J. M. Whelan

ABSTRACTOptimization and the advantages of rapid thermal annealing (RTA) for the electrical activation of deep 300 keV Si+ implants into GaAs are investigated and established for doses of 6 to 8×1012 cm−2. These implant conditions are appropriate for power FETs. Results are compared with those based on conventional controlled atmosphere capless furnace annealing (CAT).The RTA yielded higher peak electron concentrations, high mobilities and greater uniformities in the gateless FET saturation currents. The deep implant results ontrast with those for shallower implants for low noise FETs. These differences are explained using a well-known implant damage model.


1991 ◽  
Vol 30 (Part 1, No. 2) ◽  
pp. 418-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
István Bársony ◽  
Jean-Luc Heideman ◽  
Jos Klappe ◽  
Jan Middelhoek

1985 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. J. Kepler ◽  
N. W. Cheung ◽  
P. K. Chu

ABSTRACTRapid thermal annealing (RTA) is used to form shallow and heavily-doped contact regions in undoped, semi-insulating GaAs. These layers are formed by using a high-intensity tungstenhalogen lamp to diffuse germanium and selenium from a deposited GeSe thin-film. RTA reduces surface degradation and permits better control of the diffusion profile than conventional furnace annealing. Optimal 20-second RTA occurs above a diffusion threshold at 950°C but below the failure of the SiO2 encapsulant at 1100°C. The n+ regions created have peak impurity concentrations over 1020/cm3 at depths under 750 Å with sheet resistances less than 60 Ω/▩. Non-alloyed ohmic contacts exhibit specific contact resistivites of 2.2 × 10−4 Ω · cm−2.


1983 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.V. Vaidyanathan ◽  
H.L. Dunlap

ABSTRACTThis paper discusses the properties of high intensity lamp-annealed silicon or beryllium-implanted GaAs and InP samples. We find this annealing process can result in efficient activation of dopants. Conventional furnace annealing at the same temperature does not result in increased electrical activation of the dopants. High fluence silicon implants can be activated in anneal times as short as 2 seconds, while low fluence silicon implants require more extended annealing. Activation of low fluence implants in GaAs depends strongly on the properties of the bulk semiinsulating material.


1983 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kuzuhara ◽  
H. Kohzu ◽  
Y. Takayama

ABSTRACTRapid thermal process utilizing radiation from halogen lamps has been used to post-anneal ion-implanted GaAs. Annealing conditions for Si implants in GaAs are discussed from the view point of applying this technique to GaAs MESFET fabrication. Also, the properties of S and Mg implants in GaAs followed by rapid thermal annealing are comparatively studied with the results after conventional furnace annealing. High electrical activation and minimized implant diffusion for both low and high dose implants are the principal features of this technique. The fabricated MESFET showed much higher transconductance without any anomalous characteristics, indicating this technique to be a promising alternative to conventional furnace annealing.


1989 ◽  
Vol 147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Chen ◽  
S.-Tong Lee ◽  
G. Braunstein ◽  
G. Rajeswaran ◽  
P. Fellinger

AbstractDefects induced by ion implantation and subsequent annealing are found to either promote or suppress layer intermixing in Ill-V compound semiconductor superlattices (SLs). We have studied this intriguing relationship by examining how implantation and annealing conditions affect defect creation and their relevance to intermixing. Layer intermixing has been induced in SLs implanted with 220 keV Si+ at doses < 1 × 1014 ions/cm2 and annealed at 850°C for 3 hrs or 1050°C for 10 s. Upon furnace annealing, significant Si in-diffusion is observed over the entire intermixed region, but with rapid thermal annealing layer intermixing is accompanied by negligible Si movement. TEM showed that the totally intermixed layers are centered around a buried band of secondary defects and below the Si peak position. In the nearsurface region layer intermixing is suppressed and is only partially completed at ≤1 × 1015 Si/cm2. This inhibition is correlated to a loss of the mobile implantation-induced defects, which are responsible for intermixing.


1985 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Kazior ◽  
Kamal Tabatabaie-Alavi

ABSTRACTAn Eaton Nova Rapid Optical Annealer (ROA 400) has been used to activate n and n+ Si implants for use in power and low noise FET structures for GaAs MMIC's. PECVD SiN capped 3" SI GaAs wafers were annealed at temperatures ranging from 800 to 970 °C for times ranging from 0 (transient light pulse) to 20 sec. Doping profiles were determined using a Polaron concentration profiler; FATFET's were used for measuring drift mobility; and short gate (l.0μm gate length) FET's were fabricated to establish activation uniformity and to determine d.c. and r.f. performance. Results have indicated peak implant activation as high as 90% and electron mobilities of up to 4700cm2/V-sec for carrier concentrations of 1.3×1017/cm3 – results comparable to conventional furnace annealing. The most significant improvement of optical annealing comes in device uniformity. Saturated current uniformities of < ±3% have been achieved over 3" wafers with excellent reproducibility from wafer to wafer. Power FET structures with zero bias gm of 120mS/mm with uniformities of <±5mS/mm have been measured. R.f. measurements on these devices yielded output powers of >500mW/mm with power added efficiencies as high as 35%.


1992 ◽  
Vol 262 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. M. Berezina ◽  
F. P. Kdrshunov ◽  
N. A. Sobolev ◽  
A. V. Voevodova ◽  
A. A. Stuk

ABSTRACTThe influence of the rapid thermal annealing (RTA) in comparison with that of the standard furnace annealing (FA) on the electrical parameters and photoluminescence (PL) of Czochralski silicon (Cz Si) subjected to neutron irradiation at various temperatures has been studied. The role of the irradiation temperature on the annealing behaviour of electrical parameters in Cz Si has been established. The possibility of getting neutron transmutation doped (NTD) Cz Si having the calculated resistivity by means of the RTA is shown.


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