Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 February 2011
One of the applications of high dose ion implantation is to form surfacealloys or compound layers. The detailed characterization of such compositestructures is of great importance. This paper tries to answer the question:how can we outline, at least, a qualitative picture from the opticalproperties measured by ellipsometry of high dose Al and Sb implantedsilicon. Attempts are done to separate the effect of implanted impuritiesfrom the dominant disorder contribution to the measured optical properties.As the ellipsometry does not provide information enough to decide theapplicability of optical models therefore methods sensitive to the structure(channeling and TEM) were applied too.