Enhanced n-type dopant solubility in tensile-strained Si

• The creation of highly conductive ultrashallow-doped regions in strained Si is a key requirement for future Si based devices. It is shown that in the presence of tensile strain, Sb becomes a contender to replace As in strain-engineered CMOS devices due to advantages in sheet resistance. While strain reduces resistance for both As and Sb; a result of enhanced electron mobility, the reduction is significantly larger for Sb due to an increase in donor activation. Differential Hall measurements suggest this is a consequence of a strain-induced Sb solubility enhancement following solid-phase epitaxial regrowth, increasing Sb solubility in Si to levels approaching 10(21) cm(-3). Experiments highlight the importance of maintaining substrate strain during thermal annealing to maintain this high Sb activation.

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Antimony

Arsenic

Hall effect

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Ion Implantation

Solid phase

epitaxy

implanted silicon

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