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HL: Fachverband Halbleiterphysik
HL 36: Ge, GeSi, and Si
HL 36.3: Talk
Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 10:00–10:15, H14
The impact of interstitials on diffusion in germanium under proton irradiation — •Sebastian Schneider1, Hartmut Bracht1, Jan Klug2, John Lundsgaard Hansen3, Arne Nylandsted Larsen3, Eugene Haller4, Dominique Bougeard5, Matthias Posselt6, and Clemens Wündisch6 — 1Institut für Materialphysik, WWU Münster, Germany — 2Ruhr-Universiät, Bochum, Germany — 3Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, Denmark — 4MS and E Dept. University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A — 5Walter-Schottky-Institut, TU München, Germany — 6FZ Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany
Experiments on the influence of 2.5 MeV proton irradiation on self- and dopant diffusion in germanium (Ge) were performed at 600 and 570∘C, respectively. Ge isotope heterostructures consisting of 20 layers were used for the self-diffusion study. Ge with boron (B) doped multilayers and samples implanted with phosphorus (P) were utilized for the investigation of irradiation mediated dopant diffusion. Self-diffusion under irradiation reveals an unusual homogenous broadening of the isotope structure. This behaviour and the enhanced diffusion of B and retarded diffusion of P under irradiation demonstrates that an interstitial-mediated diffusion process dominates in Ge under irradiation. This discovery establishes new ways to suppress vacancy-mediated diffusion in Ge and to solve the donor deactivation problem that limits Ge-based nanoelectronics.