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Anomalous characteristics of platelet defects formed by zero angle tilt hydrogen implantation in silicon wafers
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Anomalous characteristics of platelet defects formed by zero angle tilt hydrogen implantation in silicon wafers Qinghua Xiao, Hailing Tu National Engineering Research Center for Semiconductor Materials, General Research Institute for Non-ferrous Metals, Beijing 100088, PR China Available online 1 April 2005
Abstract The platelet defects in silicon wafers incorporating hydrogen by zero angle tilt (zero-tilt) implantation have been investigated by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (TEM). It is found that there appear similar alignment characteristics of the platelets in zero-tilt implantation samples to those in tilt implantation samples. The platelets lie mostly along the planes parallel to the surface and are laterally staggered. The platelet size distribution in zero-tilt implantation samples can also be fitted with a Gaussian function as it is in tilt implantation samples. However, great differences from tilt implantation samples have been first found in zero-tilt implantation samples. The platelet size and spacing in zero-tilt implantation samples dramatically increase close to the bottom of the damaged band and reach quite large values. It is suggested that these anomalous variations are ascribed to the channeling effect. r 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. PACS: 6180; 6116D; 7280c; 8140 Keywords: Silicon; Hydrogen; Ion implantation; Platelet defects; Channeling effect
1. Introduction Hydrogen can be easily and unavoidably introduced into the silicon and may strongly influence many properties of silicon, for example, embrittlement of silicon [1,2]. In recent decades, interest has been focused on effects of hydrogen on the microstructure of silicon and its applications in preparing and designing siliconbased materials. It was widely reported that a large number of {1 1 1} and {1 0 0} platelet defects could form in the crystalline silicon with the existence of large quantities of hydrogen [3–8]. Additional reports [9,10] demonstrated that during the annealing process at about Corresponding author.
E-mail address: [email protected] (Q. Xiao).
480–600 1C, the platelet defects evolved into the planar crack and finally led to the exfoliation of thin silicon layer from the thick substrate. By now, hydrogen implantation technique has been successfully used to prepare the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) materials in the SMART-CUT process [9]. While introducing excess hydrogen by ion implantation, the silicon wafer was intentionally tilted by about 71 to avoid channeling effect or covered by silicon dioxide. That may come from two considerations. On the one hand, it is accepted that in the case of zero-angle tilt implantation ( i.e. channel implantation), hydrogen ions can move a relatively long distance along channels in Si lattice and may lead to a broader profile. On the other hand, in the SMART-CUT process, a layer of silicon dioxide is typically grown on the silicon prior to
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H implantation in order to easily realize wafer bonding and form the buried oxide layer. As a result, the influence of channel implant on the microstructure of hydrogen-implanted silicon has been generally neglected. We consider that although channel implantation results in a broader hydrogen profile, there are more hydrogen ions accumulated at the maximum ion range (Rmax) due to channeling effect. This may weaken the lattice at Rmax and become an important means of controlling the extended defects induced by the annealing process and creating new silicon-based materials. In this study, the microstructure characteristics in silicon wafers introduced with hydrogen by channel implantation were first investigated by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The tilt and zero-tilt implant samples are compared. Some anomalous phenomena related to the platelet defects have been found.
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Fig. 1. Schematic diagram of platelet defect alignment, the arrow marks the substrate orientation, the inset small rectangles mean the platelets.
2. Experimental The p-type Cz-Si wafers with resistivity 1–50 O cm were bombarded with a dose of 2 1017 H+cm 2 at an energy of 60 keV at room temperature. The incidence direction of ions was basically normal to the target. For comparison, another set of samples were implanted with hydrogen at 380 keV by 101 tilt implantation with respect to the beam direction. TEM observations on the cross-sectional planes of the as-implanted samples were performed on JEM-2010 system at 200 kV operating voltage. TEM specimens were prepared by standard mechanical polishing, dimpling and ion thinning to electron transparency.
3. Results and discussion Similar to the reported results [11,12], it has been found that most of the platelet defects are aligned parallel to the surface in tilt or zero-tilt samples and seem embedded in the Si matrix, as shown in Fig. 1. These platelets are laterally staggered. Additionally, the spacing and size of platelets vary over the depth position. The size and the spacing of the platelet defects in the heavily damaged band were measured on defocused images. The measurement errors were determined by considering the average lateral variation of platelet defects. The start point of measurement was set at the top interface of the heavily damaged band and the end point at the bottom interface. Fig. 2 plots the spacing of the platelets in the damaged band of the zero-tilt implantation samples as a function of the depth. The platelet spacing variation related to the tilt implantation samples are also shown in Fig. 3. The
Fig. 2. Depth dependence of the spacing between platelet defects.
latter figure was based on the measurement of three TEM images taken at the upper part, middle part and bottom part of the wide damaged band. The spacing between platelet defects is not constant across the damaged band. For the zero-tilt implantation samples, the spacing is commonly about 2–6 nm in the upper and the middle parts of the damaged band, while it is apparently enlarged to a maximum of 11 nm or so at the depth position about 22 nm from the bottom of the damaged band. For the tilt implantation samples, there is no regular variation and the spacing typically lies between 4 and 16 nm. Fig. 4 reveals the dependence of the platelet size on the depth in the tilt implantation samples. The variation is also not regular and the size generally ranges from 4 to 12 nm. In zero-tilt implantation samples, there appears regular variation of the size over the depth, as shown in Fig. 5. In the shallower position of the damaged band, the size is commonly less than 10 nm. Close to the bottom of the damaged band, the size begins to sharply increase and reaches a maximum of about 74 nm at the position about 22 nm from the bottom of the damaged band. The position where the size begins to increase is
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Fig. 3. Platelet spacing variation in (a) upper part, (b) middle part, and (c) bottom part of the damaged band in tilt implantation samples.
Fig. 4. Platelet size variation in (a) upper part, (b) middle part, and (c) bottom part of the damaged band in tilt implantation samples.
the same as that where the spacing begins to enlarge as shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 6 gives the TEM image of quite a large platelet defect around the bottom interface of the damaged band. Fig. 7 illustrates distribution of the platelet defects with various sizes. It has been found that the platelet sizes in the sample achieved by zero-tilt implantation or tilt implantation are typically between 4 and 10 nm. Their size distributions can be fitted with a Gaussian function. Similar results have also been reported in Ref. [11].
According to the results presented by previous studies [11], the formation of platelet defects is closely correlated with the implanted hydrogen profile. It is believed that the larger the concentration, the more easily the platelets form. As we know, there exist planar and axial channels along a specific direction including /1 1 1S, /1 0 0S and /1 1 0S in silicon lattice where there is relatively open space. Consequently, the deviation amplitude of the ion beam from the channels can have great effects on the implant profile. In the case of tilt
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Fig. 5. Depth dependence of the size of the platelet defects.
Fig. 6. TEM image of quite a large platelet defect in the zerotilt implantation sample, the defect is highlighted in the open rectangle. The bottom interface of the damaged band is marked with the thin arrow.
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implantation, most of the ions easily encounter lattice atoms and are scattered at large angle since the incidence direction deviates from the channels. They basically follow random trajectories. As a result, the implanted profile appears near-Gaussian distribution, and the ion concentration peaks at the average projected range (Rp). The platelet defects are normally generated around the Rp region of the H profile. Since H concentration does not fall sharply around Rp, the platelet size and spacing do not vary apparently and regularly. In the case of zero-tilt implantation, most of the ions entering channels in the silicon lattice can move relatively long distances down the channel and rest at deeper positions because of fewer collisions with lattice atoms. The corresponding profiles appear to be composed of two portions, one corresponding to the random parts and the other corresponding to the channeled part [13]. The distribution of a large group of ions peaks at the maximum range (Rmax). Note that the concentration sharply decreases at the positions deviated from Rmax. Hence, the platelet defects easily nucleate and have the maximum size at Rmax. There may exist an interaction between platelets. The stress fields around them are connatural so that the platelets compete with one another and the platelet of large size can restrict the formation of the small platelet around it. As a result, the spacing typically increases at the same position. The anomalous platelet distribution in the zero-tilt implantation samples is attributed to the channeling effect. Channel implantation may be an effective approach to control the microstructures in hydrogenimplanted silicon. Our additional studies have exhibited some different characteristics related to extended defects such as cracks and cavities induced by the annealing process in zero-tilt implantation samples from those in tilt implantation samples.
Fig. 7. Statistic distribution of the platelet size in (a) zero-tilt implantation samples, and (b) tilt implantation samples.
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4. Conclusions In summary, no matter whether tilt or zero-tilt implantation samples, most of the platelet defects included in the heavily damaged band have similar alignment characteristics, that is, they mostly lie along the planes parallel to the surface and are laterally staggered. Their size distributions can be fitted with a Gaussian function. However, the platelet spacing and size appear extremely different variations over the depth position in zero-tilt implantation samples from those in tilt implantation samples. For the tilt implantation samples, there is no regular variation. In contrast, in the zero-tilt implantation samples, the size and spacing significantly increase close to the bottom of the damaged band and reach the maximum of about 74 and 11 nm at the position about 22 nm from the bottom of the damaged band, respectively. It is argued that the unusual variations in zero-tilt implantation samples may originate from the channeling effects.
Acknowledgements This work has been supported by the GRINM innovation funds through Project c-00-3-6601.
References [1] Pearton SJ, Corbett JW, Stavola M. Hydrogen in crystalline semiconductors. Berlin: Springer; 1992. [2] DeKock AJR, Roksnoer PJ, Boonen PG. In: Huff HR, Burgess RR, editors. Semiconductor silicon. Pennington: The Electrochemical Society; 1973. p. 83.
[3] Jeng SJ, Oehrlein GS. Microstructural studies of reactive ion etched silicon. Appl Phys Lett 1987;50(26):1912. [4] Johnson NM, Ponce FA, Street RA, Nemanich RJ. Defects in single-crystal silicon induced by hydrogenation. Phys Rev B 1987;35:4166. [5] Romani S, Evans JH. Platelet defects in hydrogen implanted silicon. Nucl Instrum Methods B 1990; 44(3):313. [6] Cerofolini GF, Meda L, Balboni R, Corni F, Frabboni S, Ottaviani G, Tonini R, Anderle M, Canteri R. Hydrogenrelated complexes as the stressing species in high-fluence, hydrogen-implanted, single-crystal silicon. Phys Rev B 1992;46:2061. [7] Beaufort MF, Garem H, Le´pinoux J. Philos Mag A 1994; 69:881. [8] Xiao QH, Wang J, Tu HL, Zhou QG, Liu B. TEM observation of microdefects in hydrogen-implanted silicon wafers. Chin J Rare Met 2003;27(3):321–3. [9] Bruel M. Silicon on insulator material technology. Electron Lett 1995;31(14):1201. [10] Aspar B, Lagahe C, Moriceau H, Soubie A, Bruel M, Auberton-Herve´ AJ, Barge T, Maleville C. Material research society symposium proceedings MRS spring meeting, symposium defects and impurities in semiconductors, 1998. p. 381. [11] Bruel M, Aspar B, Maleville C, Moriceau H, AubertonHerve AJ, Barge T. UNIBONDs SOI wafers achieved by SMART-CUT process. In: Cristoloveanu S, editor. Silicon-on-insulator technology and devices III. Pennington, NJ: Electrochemical Society Inc.; 1997. p. 3–13. [12] Gao Min, Duan XF, Li Jianming, Wang Fenglian. A transmission electron microscopy study of microstructural defects in proton implanted silicon. J Appl Phys 1996;80(8):4767–9. [13] Morris SJ, Obradovic B, Yang SH, Tasch AF. Modeling of boron, phosphorus, and arsenic implants into singlecrystal silicon over a wide energy range (few keV to Several MeV). IEDM Technical Digest, 1996. p. 721.
Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 8 (2005) 520–524
Anomalous characteristics of platelet defects formed by zero angle tilt hydrogen implantation in silicon wafers Qinghua Xiao, Hailing Tu National Engineering Research Center for Semiconductor Materials, General Research Institute for Non-ferrous Metals, Beijing 100088, PR China Available online 1 April 2005
Abstract The platelet defects in silicon wafers incorporating hydrogen by zero angle tilt (zero-tilt) implantation have been investigated by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (TEM). It is found that there appear similar alignment characteristics of the platelets in zero-tilt implantation samples to those in tilt implantation samples. The platelets lie mostly along the planes parallel to the surface and are laterally staggered. The platelet size distribution in zero-tilt implantation samples can also be fitted with a Gaussian function as it is in tilt implantation samples. However, great differences from tilt implantation samples have been first found in zero-tilt implantation samples. The platelet size and spacing in zero-tilt implantation samples dramatically increase close to the bottom of the damaged band and reach quite large values. It is suggested that these anomalous variations are ascribed to the channeling effect. r 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. PACS: 6180; 6116D; 7280c; 8140 Keywords: Silicon; Hydrogen; Ion implantation; Platelet defects; Channeling effect
1. Introduction Hydrogen can be easily and unavoidably introduced into the silicon and may strongly influence many properties of silicon, for example, embrittlement of silicon [1,2]. In recent decades, interest has been focused on effects of hydrogen on the microstructure of silicon and its applications in preparing and designing siliconbased materials. It was widely reported that a large number of {1 1 1} and {1 0 0} platelet defects could form in the crystalline silicon with the existence of large quantities of hydrogen [3–8]. Additional reports [9,10] demonstrated that during the annealing process at about Corresponding author.
E-mail address: [email protected] (Q. Xiao).
480–600 1C, the platelet defects evolved into the planar crack and finally led to the exfoliation of thin silicon layer from the thick substrate. By now, hydrogen implantation technique has been successfully used to prepare the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) materials in the SMART-CUT process [9]. While introducing excess hydrogen by ion implantation, the silicon wafer was intentionally tilted by about 71 to avoid channeling effect or covered by silicon dioxide. That may come from two considerations. On the one hand, it is accepted that in the case of zero-angle tilt implantation ( i.e. channel implantation), hydrogen ions can move a relatively long distance along channels in Si lattice and may lead to a broader profile. On the other hand, in the SMART-CUT process, a layer of silicon dioxide is typically grown on the silicon prior to
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H implantation in order to easily realize wafer bonding and form the buried oxide layer. As a result, the influence of channel implant on the microstructure of hydrogen-implanted silicon has been generally neglected. We consider that although channel implantation results in a broader hydrogen profile, there are more hydrogen ions accumulated at the maximum ion range (Rmax) due to channeling effect. This may weaken the lattice at Rmax and become an important means of controlling the extended defects induced by the annealing process and creating new silicon-based materials. In this study, the microstructure characteristics in silicon wafers introduced with hydrogen by channel implantation were first investigated by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The tilt and zero-tilt implant samples are compared. Some anomalous phenomena related to the platelet defects have been found.
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Fig. 1. Schematic diagram of platelet defect alignment, the arrow marks the substrate orientation, the inset small rectangles mean the platelets.
2. Experimental The p-type Cz-Si wafers with resistivity 1–50 O cm were bombarded with a dose of 2 1017 H+cm 2 at an energy of 60 keV at room temperature. The incidence direction of ions was basically normal to the target. For comparison, another set of samples were implanted with hydrogen at 380 keV by 101 tilt implantation with respect to the beam direction. TEM observations on the cross-sectional planes of the as-implanted samples were performed on JEM-2010 system at 200 kV operating voltage. TEM specimens were prepared by standard mechanical polishing, dimpling and ion thinning to electron transparency.
3. Results and discussion Similar to the reported results [11,12], it has been found that most of the platelet defects are aligned parallel to the surface in tilt or zero-tilt samples and seem embedded in the Si matrix, as shown in Fig. 1. These platelets are laterally staggered. Additionally, the spacing and size of platelets vary over the depth position. The size and the spacing of the platelet defects in the heavily damaged band were measured on defocused images. The measurement errors were determined by considering the average lateral variation of platelet defects. The start point of measurement was set at the top interface of the heavily damaged band and the end point at the bottom interface. Fig. 2 plots the spacing of the platelets in the damaged band of the zero-tilt implantation samples as a function of the depth. The platelet spacing variation related to the tilt implantation samples are also shown in Fig. 3. The
Fig. 2. Depth dependence of the spacing between platelet defects.
latter figure was based on the measurement of three TEM images taken at the upper part, middle part and bottom part of the wide damaged band. The spacing between platelet defects is not constant across the damaged band. For the zero-tilt implantation samples, the spacing is commonly about 2–6 nm in the upper and the middle parts of the damaged band, while it is apparently enlarged to a maximum of 11 nm or so at the depth position about 22 nm from the bottom of the damaged band. For the tilt implantation samples, there is no regular variation and the spacing typically lies between 4 and 16 nm. Fig. 4 reveals the dependence of the platelet size on the depth in the tilt implantation samples. The variation is also not regular and the size generally ranges from 4 to 12 nm. In zero-tilt implantation samples, there appears regular variation of the size over the depth, as shown in Fig. 5. In the shallower position of the damaged band, the size is commonly less than 10 nm. Close to the bottom of the damaged band, the size begins to sharply increase and reaches a maximum of about 74 nm at the position about 22 nm from the bottom of the damaged band. The position where the size begins to increase is
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Fig. 3. Platelet spacing variation in (a) upper part, (b) middle part, and (c) bottom part of the damaged band in tilt implantation samples.
Fig. 4. Platelet size variation in (a) upper part, (b) middle part, and (c) bottom part of the damaged band in tilt implantation samples.
the same as that where the spacing begins to enlarge as shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 6 gives the TEM image of quite a large platelet defect around the bottom interface of the damaged band. Fig. 7 illustrates distribution of the platelet defects with various sizes. It has been found that the platelet sizes in the sample achieved by zero-tilt implantation or tilt implantation are typically between 4 and 10 nm. Their size distributions can be fitted with a Gaussian function. Similar results have also been reported in Ref. [11].
According to the results presented by previous studies [11], the formation of platelet defects is closely correlated with the implanted hydrogen profile. It is believed that the larger the concentration, the more easily the platelets form. As we know, there exist planar and axial channels along a specific direction including /1 1 1S, /1 0 0S and /1 1 0S in silicon lattice where there is relatively open space. Consequently, the deviation amplitude of the ion beam from the channels can have great effects on the implant profile. In the case of tilt
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Fig. 5. Depth dependence of the size of the platelet defects.
Fig. 6. TEM image of quite a large platelet defect in the zerotilt implantation sample, the defect is highlighted in the open rectangle. The bottom interface of the damaged band is marked with the thin arrow.
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implantation, most of the ions easily encounter lattice atoms and are scattered at large angle since the incidence direction deviates from the channels. They basically follow random trajectories. As a result, the implanted profile appears near-Gaussian distribution, and the ion concentration peaks at the average projected range (Rp). The platelet defects are normally generated around the Rp region of the H profile. Since H concentration does not fall sharply around Rp, the platelet size and spacing do not vary apparently and regularly. In the case of zero-tilt implantation, most of the ions entering channels in the silicon lattice can move relatively long distances down the channel and rest at deeper positions because of fewer collisions with lattice atoms. The corresponding profiles appear to be composed of two portions, one corresponding to the random parts and the other corresponding to the channeled part [13]. The distribution of a large group of ions peaks at the maximum range (Rmax). Note that the concentration sharply decreases at the positions deviated from Rmax. Hence, the platelet defects easily nucleate and have the maximum size at Rmax. There may exist an interaction between platelets. The stress fields around them are connatural so that the platelets compete with one another and the platelet of large size can restrict the formation of the small platelet around it. As a result, the spacing typically increases at the same position. The anomalous platelet distribution in the zero-tilt implantation samples is attributed to the channeling effect. Channel implantation may be an effective approach to control the microstructures in hydrogenimplanted silicon. Our additional studies have exhibited some different characteristics related to extended defects such as cracks and cavities induced by the annealing process in zero-tilt implantation samples from those in tilt implantation samples.
Fig. 7. Statistic distribution of the platelet size in (a) zero-tilt implantation samples, and (b) tilt implantation samples.
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4. Conclusions In summary, no matter whether tilt or zero-tilt implantation samples, most of the platelet defects included in the heavily damaged band have similar alignment characteristics, that is, they mostly lie along the planes parallel to the surface and are laterally staggered. Their size distributions can be fitted with a Gaussian function. However, the platelet spacing and size appear extremely different variations over the depth position in zero-tilt implantation samples from those in tilt implantation samples. For the tilt implantation samples, there is no regular variation. In contrast, in the zero-tilt implantation samples, the size and spacing significantly increase close to the bottom of the damaged band and reach the maximum of about 74 and 11 nm at the position about 22 nm from the bottom of the damaged band, respectively. It is argued that the unusual variations in zero-tilt implantation samples may originate from the channeling effects.
Acknowledgements This work has been supported by the GRINM innovation funds through Project c-00-3-6601.
References [1] Pearton SJ, Corbett JW, Stavola M. Hydrogen in crystalline semiconductors. Berlin: Springer; 1992. [2] DeKock AJR, Roksnoer PJ, Boonen PG. In: Huff HR, Burgess RR, editors. Semiconductor silicon. Pennington: The Electrochemical Society; 1973. p. 83.
[3] Jeng SJ, Oehrlein GS. Microstructural studies of reactive ion etched silicon. Appl Phys Lett 1987;50(26):1912. [4] Johnson NM, Ponce FA, Street RA, Nemanich RJ. Defects in single-crystal silicon induced by hydrogenation. Phys Rev B 1987;35:4166. [5] Romani S, Evans JH. Platelet defects in hydrogen implanted silicon. Nucl Instrum Methods B 1990; 44(3):313. [6] Cerofolini GF, Meda L, Balboni R, Corni F, Frabboni S, Ottaviani G, Tonini R, Anderle M, Canteri R. Hydrogenrelated complexes as the stressing species in high-fluence, hydrogen-implanted, single-crystal silicon. Phys Rev B 1992;46:2061. [7] Beaufort MF, Garem H, Le´pinoux J. Philos Mag A 1994; 69:881. [8] Xiao QH, Wang J, Tu HL, Zhou QG, Liu B. TEM observation of microdefects in hydrogen-implanted silicon wafers. Chin J Rare Met 2003;27(3):321–3. [9] Bruel M. Silicon on insulator material technology. Electron Lett 1995;31(14):1201. [10] Aspar B, Lagahe C, Moriceau H, Soubie A, Bruel M, Auberton-Herve´ AJ, Barge T, Maleville C. Material research society symposium proceedings MRS spring meeting, symposium defects and impurities in semiconductors, 1998. p. 381. [11] Bruel M, Aspar B, Maleville C, Moriceau H, AubertonHerve AJ, Barge T. UNIBONDs SOI wafers achieved by SMART-CUT process. In: Cristoloveanu S, editor. Silicon-on-insulator technology and devices III. Pennington, NJ: Electrochemical Society Inc.; 1997. p. 3–13. [12] Gao Min, Duan XF, Li Jianming, Wang Fenglian. A transmission electron microscopy study of microstructural defects in proton implanted silicon. J Appl Phys 1996;80(8):4767–9. [13] Morris SJ, Obradovic B, Yang SH, Tasch AF. Modeling of boron, phosphorus, and arsenic implants into singlecrystal silicon over a wide energy range (few keV to Several MeV). IEDM Technical Digest, 1996. p. 721.