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Pulsed Ion Beam Annealing Of Nickel Thin Films on Silicon
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2011
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High power pulsed ion beams have been applied to anneal nickel thin films on silicon. RBS and TEM have been performed to study ion beam induced effects. With Ba+ ion beams at energy densities greater than 0.7 J/cm2 and H+ beams above about 1.3 J/cm2, cellular structures were found. At about 0.6 J/cm2 for Ba+ (about 1.0 J/cm2 for H+), epitaxial NiSi2 was formed. At lower energy densities, polycrystalline layers containing a mixture of silicide phases were observed. With ion beam annealing, melting starts at the Ni/Si interface and epitaxy was found at energy densities well below that required to melt Ni or crystalline Si.
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Permanent address: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, China.
Permanent address: Institute for Nuclear Study, Shanghai, China.
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