The influence of nitrogen implantation on the properties of silicon-on-insulator buried oxide using separation by oxygen implantation was studied. Nitrogen ions were implanted into the buried oxide layer with a high-dose of 1016 cm-2. The experimental results showed that the positive charge density of the nitrogen-implanted buried oxide was obviously increased, compared with the control sampes without nitrogen implantation. It was also found that the post-implantation annealing caused an additional increase of the positive charge density in the nitrogen implanted samples. However, annealing time displayed a small effect on the positive charge density of the nitrogen implanted buried oxide, compared with the significant increase induced by nitrogen implantation. Moreover, the capacitance-voltage results showed that the positive charge density of the unannealed sample with nitrogen implanted is approximately equal to that of the sample annealed at 1100 ℃ for 2.5 h in N2 ambient, despite an additional increase brought with annealing, and the buried oxide of the sample after 0.5 h annealing has a maximum value of positive charge density. According to the simulating results, the nitrogen implantation resulted in a heavy damage to the buried oxide, a lot of silicon and oxygen vacancies were introduced in the buried oxide during implantation. However, the Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy of the samples indicates that implantation induced defects can be basically eliminated after an annealing at 1100 ℃ for 0.5 h. The increase of the positive charge density of the nitrogen implanted buried oxide is ascribed to the accumulation of implanted nitrogen near the interface of buried oxide and silicon, which caused the break of weak Si-Si bonds and the production of positive silicon ions in the silicon-rich region of the buried oxide near the interface, and this conclusion is supported by the results of secondary ion mass spectrometry.
Tang Hai-Ma(唐海马) a) , Zheng Zhong-Shan(郑中山) a) † , Zhang En-Xia(张恩霞) b) , Yu Fang(于 芳) c) , Li Ning(李 宁) c) , and Wang Ning-Juan(王宁娟) c)
Nitrogen ions implanted into the buried oxide layer can increase the total dose radiation hardness of silicon on insulator (SOI) materials. However, the obvious increase in positive charge density in the buried layer with high dose of nitrogen implantation leads to a negative effect on the technology of nitrogen implantation into buried oxide. In order to suppress the increase in positive charge density in the nitrogen-implanted buried layer, co-implantation of nitrogen and fluorine is used to implant fluorine into the nitrogen-implanted buried layer. High-frequency voltage-capacitance (C-V) technique is used to characterize the positive charge density in the buried layer. Results show that, in most cases, using the co-implantation of nitrogen and fluorine can significantly reduce the positive charge density in the nitrogen-implanted buried layer. At the same time, it is also found that further increase of the positive charge density induced by fluorine implantation in the nitrogen-implanted buried layer can occur in particular cases. It is proposed that the decrease in the positive charge density in the fluorine and nitrogen-implanted buried layer is due to the introduction of electron traps into the buried layer through fluorine implantation.
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