Published May 21, 2003 | Version v1
Journal article

The influence of in situ photoexcitation on a defect structure generation in Ar+ implanted GaAs(001) crystals revealed by high-resolution x-ray diffraction and Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy

  • 1. Moscow State Institute of Steel and Alloys, Russian Federation, Moscow, Leninskii Prospekt, 4 (Russian Federation)
  • 2. Institute of Microelectronics Technology and High Purity Materials, 142432 Chemogolovka (Russian Federation)
  • 3. Instituto Tecnologico e Nuclear (ITN), Estrada Nacional 10, 2686-953 Sacavem (Portugal)

Description

The influence of in situ photoexcitation on the defect structure generation in GaAs crystals implanted by Ar+ ions with energy of 200 keV and doses of 1x1013, 3x1013 and 5x1013 cm-2 was studied by high-resolution x-ray diffraction and Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy. The in situ photoexcitation is found to provide for annihilation of Frenkel pairs that decrease a residual concentration of radiation-induced point defects. The amorphization of the damaged layer is assumed to proceed by a generation and a growth of radiation-induced point defect clusters. The vacancy- and interstitial-type clusters are spatially separated: the former are located closer to the surface than the latter ones. The in situ photoexcitation is shown to hinder the cluster growth and to stimulate diffusion of interstitials towards undamaged substrate

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0022-3727/36/A143/d310a29.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of Physics. D, Applied Physics (ISSN 1361-6463) http://www.iop.org/

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. D, Applied Physics
Journal Volume
36
Journal Issue
10A
Journal Page Range
p. A143-A147
ISSN
0022-3727
CODEN
JPAPBE

Conference

Title
7. international conference on x-ray imaging and high resolution diffraction
Acronym
X-TOP 2002
Dates
10-14 Sep 2002
Place
Grenoble (France)