Analysis of depth redistribution of implanted Fe near SiO2/Si interface

We have studied diffusion and clustering processes of room-temperature (RT)-implanted Fe ions in a SiO2/Si structure during annealing at 600 and 800 degrees C temperatures. The depth profile of implanted Fe was analyzed by Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy (RBS). In the previous study, we found that the hot-implanted Fe ions near the SiO2/Si interface at high substrate temperatures of 600 and 800 degrees C were distributed significantly different from the result predicted in the TRIM simulation. We think that the diffusion phenomena during the ion implantation at such elevated temperatures are recognized to be strongly enhanced by ion-beam-irradiation effect. In this study, to simplify the diffusion phenomenon, we particularly treat thermal diffusion process of RT-Fe implantation around the SiO2/Si interface in the post annealing at high temperatures. It is clearly seen that Fe atoms post-annealed at 800 degrees C are preferably gathered at a definitive depth in the SiO2 layer around 15 nm distances from the interface. We finally compare the Fe depth distribution for hot-implanted samples to that for the post-annealed ones by RBS analysis quantitatively. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.