Mechanisms of arsenic clustering in silicon

Details Mechanisms of arsenic clustering in silicon Mechanisms of arsenic clustering in silicon

2005-12-26

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0512653v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

13 pages, 4 figures. Revised and shortened version of the paper has been published in Phys. Rev. B, Vol.74 (3), art. no. 03520

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.74.035205

A model of arsenic clustering in silicon is proposed and analyzed. The main feature of the proposed model is the assumption that negatively charged arsenic complexes play a dominant role in the clustering process. To confirm this assumption, electron density and concentration of impurity atoms incorporated into the clusters are calculated as functions of the total arsenic concentration. A number of the negatively charged clusters incorporating a point defect and one or more arsenic atoms are investigated. It is shown that for the doubly negatively charged clusters or for clusters incorporating more than one arsenic atom the electron density reaches a maximum value and then monotonically and slowly decreases as total arsenic concentration increases. In the case of doubly negatively charged cluster incorporating two arsenic atoms, the calculated electron density agrees well with the experimental data. Agreement with the experiment confirms the conclusion that two arsenic atoms participate in the cluster formation. Among all present models, the proposed model of clustering by formation of doubly negatively charged cluster incorporating two arsenic atoms gives the best fit to the experimental data and can be used in simulation of high concentration arsenic diffusion.

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