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From the Mystery to the Understanding of the Self-Interstitials in Silicon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

W. Frank ,
A. Seeger  and
U. Gösele
W. Frank
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Institut für Physik, Heisenbergstr. 1, and Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Theoretische und Angewandte Physik, Pfaffenwaldring 57, D-7000 Stuttgart 80, Germany
A. Seeger
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Institut für Physik, Heisenbergstr. 1, and Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Theoretische und Angewandte Physik, Pfaffenwaldring 57, D-7000 Stuttgart 80, Germany
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Abstract

Our present knowledge on self-interstitials in silicon and the rôle these defects play under widely different experimental conditions are surveyed. In particular, the following phenomena involving self-interstitials either in supersaturations or under high-temperature thermal-equilibrium conditions are considered: mobility-enhanced diffusion of self-interstitials below liquid-helium temperature, thermally activated diffusion of self-interstitials at inter-mediate temperatures (14O K to 600 K), concentration-enhanced diffusion of Group-III or Group-V elements in silicon at higher temperatures, and— as examples for high-temperature equilibrium phenomena — self-diffusion and diffusion of gold in silicon. This leads to the picture that the self-interstitials in silicon may occur in different electrical charge states and possess dumbbell configurations or are extended over several atomic volumes at intermediate or high temperatures, respectively.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 2: Symposium – Defects in Semiconductors I , 1980 , 31
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1981

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