Peculiarities of the Impurity Redistribution under Ultra-Shallow Junction Formation in Silicon

Abstract

Ultra-shallow junctions (USJs) were formed by low-energy As ion implantation with the subsequent furnace annealing. It was found that the significant amount of oxygen is redistributed from the silicon bulk to the arsenic-implanted region. We present the effect of oxygen gettering at the creation of arsenic-doped USJs using the marker layer created by ion implantation of 18O isotope.