DOPING AND CRYSTALLIZATION OF AMORPHOUS SIGE FILMS WITH AN EXCIMER (KRF) LASER

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作者
KRISHNAN, S
CHAUDHRY, MI
BABU, SV
机构
[1] CLARKSON UNIV,CTR ADV MAT PROC,DEPT CHEM ENGN,POTSDAM,NY 13699
[2] CLARKSON UNIV,CTR ADV MAT PROC,DEPT ELECT ENGN,POTSDAM,NY 13699
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10.1557/JMR.1995.1884
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
Amorphous silicon germanium (A-SiGe) films, deposited on silicon substrates at room temperature in a molecular beam epitaxy system, were transformed into a single-crystal film and doped with phosphorus by exposure to KrF laser pulses. Electron channeling patterns showed that laser exposure resulted in crystallization of the undoped a-SiGe films, The SiGe films were doped by laser irradiation, using a phosphorus spin-on-dopant. The sheet resistance of the doped films decreased with increasing numbers of pulses, reaching a value of-about similar to 5 x 10(4) ohms/square after 15 pulses. I-V data from mesa-type n-SiGe/p-Si diode devices were used to determine the effect of laser processing on the quality of the SiGe films.
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页码:1884 / 1888
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