A suitable choice of one sample among several silicon wafers subjected to two-step thermal treatments for oxygen precipitation permits to reveal a complete series of infrared absorption peaks related to the precipitates formed in the crystal. Structured spectra are observed at 7 K and can be interpreted as due to SiO2 precipitates with different shapes and concentrations.
Systematic infrared transmission measurements have been performed on heavily Sb-doped (up to 2×1018 atoms/cm3) silicon samples. The interstitial oxygen content is obtained analyzing the optical response near the 1107-cm−1 oxygen absorption band with a new technique based on a curved baseline, accounting for free-carrier absorption. The results are discussed and compared with those obtained for the same samples by a short baseline technique and by secondary-ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS) analysis. Regression straight-line fits, relative to two lots of 16 samples each, show a good linear correlation between infrared (IR) and SIMS data, although the IR estimates are consistently lower than those obtained by SIMS.
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