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Hydrogen Enhanced Defect Reactions in Silicon: Interstitial Atom - Vacancy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

A.N. Nazarov
Affiliation:
Institute of Semiconductor Physics, NASU, Prospekt Nauki 45, 252028 Kyiv, Ukraine
V.M. Pinchuk
Affiliation:
Department of General and Theoretical Physics, Kyiv Politechnical Institute, Prospekt Pobedy 37, 252057 Kyiv, Ukraine
T.V. Yanchuk
Affiliation:
Department of General and Theoretical Physics, Kyiv Politechnical Institute, Prospekt Pobedy 37, 252057 Kyiv, Ukraine
V.S. Lysenko
Affiliation:
Institute of Semiconductor Physics, NASU, Prospekt Nauki 45, 252028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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Abstract

In the paper the model of interaction of the hydrogenated vacancy with silicon interstitial and different dopants (B, P and As) in crystalline silicon is considered. Quantum chemical calculations using the SCF MO LCAO technique in the NDDO valence approach show that the hydrogenation of the vacancy leads to the considerable decrease of the energy barrier height for the interstitial atom incorporation into the vacancy site of the crystalline lattice. The potential barriers for incorporation of the interstitial into the site and for leaving the atoms from the site have been calculated as a function of hydrogen localization in the vicinity of the vacancy (inside and outside of the vacancy), the charge state of hydrogen localized outside the vacancy (HO, H+ and H-) and the transport direction (<111>, <110> and <100>) of the atoms both to the vacancy and out from it. The theory is compared with the reported experimental results.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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