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Quantitative Measurement of Reduction of Boron Diffusion by Substitutional Carbon Incorporation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

M. S. Carroll ,
L. D. Lanzerotti  and
J. C. Sturm
M. S. Carroll
Affiliation:
Princeton University, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Princeton, NJ 08544
L. D. Lanzerotti
Affiliation:
Princeton University, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Princeton, NJ 08544
J. C. Sturm
Affiliation:
Princeton University, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Princeton, NJ 08544
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Abstract

Recently, the suppression of boron diffusion due to both thermal and transient enhanced diffusion (TED) has been demonstrated through the incorporation of 0.5% substitutional carbon in the base of Si/SiGe/Si heterojunction transistor's (HBT)[1,2]. Because the devices are sensitive to diffusion on a scale less than that we can detect with SIMS, in this paper combined process and device modeling (TMA TSUPREM4 and MEDICI) are used to relate observed electrical characteristics (collector saturation currents and Early voltages) of the HBT's to boron diffusion, with a sensitivity of 20-30Å. Boron diffusivity in the SiGeC base is ~8 times slower than that of the boron diffusivity in the SiGe base without implant damage (no TED). In the case of ion implant damage in an overlying layer to cause TED the excess interstitial concentration due to ion implant damage is reduced by approximately 99% through incorporation of 0.5% substitutional carbon in the HBT SiGe bases. This demonstrates that carbon incorporation acts as an effective sink for interstitials.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 527: Symposium Z – Diffusion Mechanisms in Crystalline Materials , 1998 , 417
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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