Laterally confined large-grained Poly-GeSi films: Crystallization and dopant activation using green laser

B. Rangarajan, Alexeij Y. Kovalgin, P. Oesterlin, R. de Kloe, I. Brunets, Jurriaan Schmitz

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    Abstract

    This paper reports crystallization with a pulsed Yb:YAG thin disk laser (λ = 515 nm) of amorphous Ge0.85Si0.15 films approximately 100 nm thick, on silicon wafers with thermal oxide. Pre-patterned lines were employed to steer the crystallization and to form confined large grains. In total, 64% of the grains were longer than 2 μm, among them 40% were reaching 8–35 μm in length. These values, orders of magnitude larger than the layer thickness, were a result of so-called super-lateral growth. The grains were laterally confined within a 3 μm wide space. The crystallization led to a substantial residual tensile stress with a strain of 3.4%. Green-laser activation of BF2 +, As+ and P+ implants was studied in amorphous and polycrystalline Ge0.85Si0.15 films and led to successful dopant activation with resistivity values in the range of 5–20 m_-cm achieved for all the implants.
    Original languageUndefined
    Pages (from-to)263-268
    Number of pages6
    JournalECS journal of solid state science and technology
    Volume1
    Issue number6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2012

    Keywords

    • EWI-22595
    • IR-82338
    • METIS-296152

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