Author:
Johnson Brett Cameron,Gortmaker Paul,McCallum Jeffrey C.
Abstract
ABSTRACTThe kinetics of intrinsic and dopant-enhanced solid phase epitaxy (SPE) are studied in thick amorphous germanium (a-Ge) layers formed by ion implantation on <100> Ge substrates. The SPE rates for H-free Ge were measured with a time-resolved reflectivity (TRR) system in the temperature range 300 – 540 °C and found to have an activation energy of (2.15 ± 0.04) eV. Dopant enhanced SPE was measured in a-Ge layers containing a uniform concentration profile of implanted As spanning the concentration regime 1 – 10 × 1019 cm3. The generalized Fermi level shifting model shows excellent fits to the data.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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