Abstract
The hydrogen-enhanced recrystallization during thermal annealing in N +-implanted GaAs has been studied by combinatorial implantation process. Raman spectroscopy was used to study the crystallization properties of a set of hydrogenated cells on the N+-implanted GaAs wafer. A whole competitive process between H+ implantation-induced damage and recovery in the regrowth process of amorphous GaAs was observed within the proton dose region of 1.6 × 1015 to 1.1 × 1017 cm-2. In H+ dose region of 2.1 × 1016 to 5.4 × 1016 cm-2, H-enhanced recovery of crystal dominates the regrowth process. The crystal quality is better than that of unhydrogenated cell of N+-implanted GaAs in the H+ dose range from 4.7 × 1016 to 8.1 × 1016 cm -2. It is suggested that the vacancy supersaturation produced during hydrogen irradiation is dominantly responsible for the enhancement of thermal regrowth in the N+-implanted GaAs. Both the crystallization and amorphization process are clearly observed in different proton implantation dose regions.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1809-1811 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 2004 |
| Externally published | Yes |