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Beam Processing of Silicon With a Scanning CW Hg Lamp

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Tim Stultz ,
Jim Sturm  and
James Gibbons
Tim Stultz
Affiliation:
Stanford Electronics Laboratory, Stanford, CA 94305
Jim Sturm
Affiliation:
Stanford Electronics Laboratory, Stanford, CA 94305
James Gibbons
Affiliation:
Stanford Electronics Laboratory, Stanford, CA 94305
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Abstract

A scanning arc lamp annealing system has been built using a 3” long mercury arc lamp with an elliptical reflector. The reflector focuses the light into a high intensity narrow line source. Silicon wafers implanted with 100 Kev 75As+ to 1×l015 cm−2 have been uniformly annealed with a single scan, resulting in complete activation and negligible redistribution of the implanted species. Using a scan rate of 1cm/s, entire 3” wafers have been annealed in less than 10 seconds with this system. The system has also been used to recrystallize thin films of polysilicon deposited on thermally grown silicon dioxide. The recrystallized films contain grains that are typically 0.5–1 mm in width and several centimeters long. Surface texture measurements show the crystallites to be almost entirely (100) in the plane of the film with the orthogonal <100>direction closely paralleling the scan direction. Mosfets were fabricated in these films with surface mobilities 66% of ones fabricated in single crystal silicon. An epitaxial layer with the same crystallographic features as the recrystallized film was grown on the film itself.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 13 , 1982 , 463
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1983

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Also Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory

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