4-8 July 2016
Kramer Law building
Africa/Johannesburg timezone
<a href="http://events.saip.org.za/internalPage.py?pageId=10&confId=86">The Proceedings of SAIP2016</a> published on 24 December 2017

Investigation of the isochronal annealing profiles of the E centres in n-type silicon

5 Jul 2016, 11:30
20m
4B (Kramer Law building)

4B

Kramer Law building

UCT Middle Campus Cape Town
Oral Presentation Track A - Division for Physics of Condensed Matter and Materials Division for Physics of Condensed Matter and Materials (2)

Speaker

Mr Abraham Barnard (University of Pretoria)

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The vacancy-dopant complex in Silicon, often referred to as the E-center, is a well-known defect. In this study, we investigated vacancy complexes with three common dopants namely the Sb, P and As by measuring isochronal annealing profiles of all three E centres in n-type silicon.

Si doped with P and combinations of P with Sb and As were exposed to alpha radiation from an Am-241 source. By making use of high-resolution Laplace deep-level transient spectroscopy, we were able to distinguish the different E-centers from each other, and measure their annealing rates individually. Since the Schottky contacts degraded with temperature, a novel approach was taken, where annealings were done with the Schottky contacts replaced after each annealing.

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No

Level for award<br>&nbsp;(Hons, MSc, <br> &nbsp; PhD, N/A)?

Msc

Main supervisor (name and email)<br>and his / her institution

Professor Walter Meuer
Wmeyer@up.ac.za

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Yes

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Yes

Primary author

Mr Abraham Barnard (University of Pretoria)

Co-authors

Prof. Danie Auret (University of Pretoria) Dr Walter Meyer (University of Pretoria)

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