Tensile strain in arsenic heavily-doped Si

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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2007

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en

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5

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Journal of Applied Physics, Volume 102, issue 10, pp. 1-5

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In this paper we highlight the existence of tensile stress in heavily arsenic-doped epitaxial silicon (Si:As) prepared by low pressure chemical vapor deposition. Despite the large size of As atoms compared to Si ones, we demonstrate with x-ray diffraction and convergent electron beam diffraction that the heavily doped epitaxial layers show a tetragonal lattice with a reduced out of plane parameter. Using positron annihilation spectroscopy, we highlight the formation of arsenic-vacancies defects during the growth. We show that the tensile strain is related to this type of defects involving inactive As atoms and not to the As active concentration.

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As doped, positron, Si, strain

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Borot, G, Rubaldo, L, Clement, L, Pantel, R, Kuitunen, K, Slotte, J, Tuomisto, F, Mescot, X, Gri, M, Ghibaudo, G & Dutartre, D 2007, ' Tensile strain in arsenic heavily-doped Si ', Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 102, no. 10, 103505, pp. 1-5 . https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2816251