Abstract

ABSTRACTIn this paper, we report a multi-step rapid thermal annealing process for microwave discrete devices and monolithic integrated circuits fabrication. 2” diameter undoped liquid encapsulated Czochralski GaAs wafers were implanted with 29 Si+ and annealed without capping using incoherent light from high intensity halogen lamps. The annealing was carried out in multiple temperature steps to achieve optimum damage removal and dopant activation. As a result, wafers implanted with mid 1012 cm−2 dose exhibited 85–90% activation efficiency for 100kV implant and nearly 100% activation for 300 kV implant. In comparison with single-stepannealed wafers, multi-step-annealed wafers showed not only higher activation efficiency, but also more uniform activation, higher electron mobility and better device performance.

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