Peculiarities of thermoannealing in n-Si and n-Ge crystals with oxygen impurity

. Investigated in this work were changes in the concentration of charge carriers ne and their mobilities u, which occur under the influence of thermoannealing of n - Si and n - Ge crystals grown by the Czochralski method. Thermoannealing of n - Si samples was carried out both at 450 °C and 650 °C...

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. Investigated in this work were changes in the concentration of charge carriers ne and their mobilities u, which occur under the influence of thermoannealing of n - Si and n - Ge crystals grown by the Czochralski method. Thermoannealing of n - Si samples was carried out both at 450 °C and 650 °C. The results of the influence of twostage (combined) thermoannealing have been presented. In the first series of experiments, the annealing was performed at 450 °C with varied duration (from 5 to 45 h) at the beginning, and then it was carried out for 40 hours at 650 °C. The second series of experiments was as follows: the annealing at 450 °C for 45-hour duration, then the annealing at 650 °C, which was carried out for various periods of time (5, 10, 20, 45, 66 hours). The observations for changes of ne and u were carried out both at the temperature 300 and 77 K. It is ascertained that changing the main parameters (ne and u) in n  Ge As heavily doped single crystals, as a result of the series of thermoannealings (duration 30 min in each case) within the temperature range from 540 to 900 °C, is non-monotonous due to transformation of the thermodonors TD - I into TD-II .
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title_short Peculiarities of thermoannealing in n-Si and n-Ge crystals with oxygen impurity
title_full Peculiarities of thermoannealing in n-Si and n-Ge crystals with oxygen impurity
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description . Investigated in this work were changes in the concentration of charge carriers ne and their mobilities u, which occur under the influence of thermoannealing of n - Si and n - Ge crystals grown by the Czochralski method. Thermoannealing of n - Si samples was carried out both at 450 °C and 650 °C. The results of the influence of twostage (combined) thermoannealing have been presented. In the first series of experiments, the annealing was performed at 450 °C with varied duration (from 5 to 45 h) at the beginning, and then it was carried out for 40 hours at 650 °C. The second series of experiments was as follows: the annealing at 450 °C for 45-hour duration, then the annealing at 650 °C, which was carried out for various periods of time (5, 10, 20, 45, 66 hours). The observations for changes of ne and u were carried out both at the temperature 300 and 77 K. It is ascertained that changing the main parameters (ne and u) in n  Ge As heavily doped single crystals, as a result of the series of thermoannealings (duration 30 min in each case) within the temperature range from 540 to 900 °C, is non-monotonous due to transformation of the thermodonors TD - I into TD-II .
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fulltext Semiconductor Physics, Quantum Electronics & Optoelectronics, 2012. V. 15, N 3. P. 218-222. © 2012, V. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 218 PACS 61.82.Fk Peculiarities of thermoannealing in n-Si and n-Ge crystals with oxygen impurity P.I. Baranskii1, G.P. Gaidar2 1V. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, NAS of Ukraine, 45, prospect Nauky, 03680 Kyiv, Ukraine 2Institute for Nuclear Research, NAS of Ukraine, 47, prospect Nauky, 03680 Kyiv, Ukraine Е mail: gaydar@kinr.kiev.ua Abstract. Investigated in this work were changes in the concentration of charge carriers ne and their mobilities , which occur under the influence of thermoannealing of Sin  and Gen  crystals grown by the Czochralski method. Thermoannealing of Sin  samples was carried out both at 450 °C and 650 °C. The results of the influence of two- stage (combined) thermoannealing have been presented. In the first series of experiments, the annealing was performed at 450 °C with varied duration (from 5 to 45 h) at the beginning, and then it was carried out for 40 hours at 650 °C. The second series of experiments was as follows: the annealing at 450 °C for 45-hour duration, then the annealing at 650 °C, which was carried out for various periods of time (5, 10, 20, 45, 66 hours). The observations for changes of ne and  were carried out both at the temperature 300 and 77 K. It is ascertained that changing the main parameters (ne and ) in AsGen  heavily doped single crystals, as a result of the series of thermoannealings (duration 30 min in each case) within the temperature range from 540 to 900 °C, is non-monotonous due to transformation of the thermodonors ITD  into IITD  . Keywords: silicon, germanium, oxygen, thermoannealing, thermodonor, the Hall effect, carrier concentration, mobility. Manuscript received 07.05.12; revised version received 30.05.12; accepted for publication 14.06.12; published online 25.09.12. 1. Introduction It is known [1] that the thermal treatment of silicon crystals doped with oxygen within the temperature range 350 to 550 °С leads to formation of donor centers and change in the resistance of samples. Having learned the kinetics of thermodonor formation, Kaiser et al. [2, 3] concluded that these centers have oxygen nature and represent a complex containing four atoms of oxygen (SiO4). The thermodonor properties were described in detail in the review [4]. Investigations of the thermodonor properties [1, 2] showed that their donor activity disappears after a short annealing at the temperatures above 550 °С. It was also observed [5] that the further thermal treatment at higher temperatures (550…800 °С) leads to the appearance of donor activity again. In [6] it was shown that these donor centers (the authors call them “new donors”) differed in many properties from the thermodonors that are formed in a lower temperature range (350…550 °С). In the literature [7], the low-temperature thermodonors are called the thermodonors I ( ITD  ), and the “new donors” – the thermodonors II ( IITD  ). In [6, 8–12], the influence of carbon impurities, as well as the preliminary annealing of samples at 400…500 °С, on the formation of IITD  was studied. It follows from the works [6, 8–11] that the preliminary annealing at 400…500 °С of Si single crystals with the low carbon content (NС < 316 cm10  ), as well as the presence of this impurity in the bulk of silicon in the Semiconductor Physics, Quantum Electronics & Optoelectronics, 2012. V. 15, N 3. P. 218-222. © 2012, V. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 219 appreciable amounts (NС < 316 cm102  ), promotes the process of the formation of IITD  . On the other hand, the high content of carbon impurities in Sі (NС  316 cm102  ) complicates the generation of ITD  [13]. In addition, the reduction of the ionization energy of ITD  with increasing the annealing time was found [14]. For the last few decades, scientists of the world have been shown great interest to the properties of Sі crystals doped with oxygen. And these studies have been still far from completed. For a long time the thermodonors have been actively studied using different techniques: the Hall effect [10, 14–16], the electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) [7, 17, 18], deep level transient spectroscopy (DLTS) [19–21], infrared spectroscopy [22, 23], photoluminescence [15] and others. However, despite the large number of studies [24], up to date an exact model of the donor center, which could describe all the existing experimental data, has not been developed. 2. Experimental For the experiments with thermoannealing (TA) the dislocation-free single crystals of Sin  , doped with phosphorus and grown by the Czochralski method, were used. The content of doping and residual impurities in the investigated crystals is presented in Table 1. A higher concentration of oxygen in the ingot 2 provided a higher concentration of ITD  (as compared to the ingot 1) after the thermoannealings at 450 °C ( ITA  ) of equal duration (see Table 2) as well as in the growing process itself. The resistivity  in the ingot 2 was 10 Ohmcm just when the growing process had been over, however, proceeding from the calculation of the quantity of added phosphorus as electrically active impurity, it could have been expected about 35 Ohmcm. After the 16-h annealing of the ingot 2 at 450 °С, the carrier concentration increased up to n300K  315 cm017.5  (300К  0.9 Оhmсm). To achieve the value of n300K  314 cm015.1  (300K  28 Оhmсm, which is close to the calculated  value), the ingot 2 needed to be annealed for 1 hour at 650 °С. This value n300K  314 cm015.1  was taken as the initial one and related to the phosphorus dopant in the ingot 2. Table 1. The content of main impurities in the crystals of n – Si. Т = 300 K. Doping concentration N, сm-3 Ingot Phosphorus Oxygen Carbon 1 2.45 × 1014 5.1 × 1017 3.8 × 1016 2 1.50 × 1014 9.5 × 1017 3.0 × 1016 The carrier concentration (ne) in the ingot 1 corresponded to the calculated value. This fact and, perhaps, a lower concentration of oxygen in the ingot 1 (in comparison with that of the ingot 2) provided a higher stability of the ingot 1 with respect to the thermoannealing at 650 °С ( IITA  ) (see Table 2), although the carbon content in both ingots was almost identical. 3. Two-stage thermoannealing of n-Si samples with a different content of oxygen impurity The abovementioned thermal stability of the ingot 1 with respect to IITA  (at 650 °С) was lost after its preliminary annealing (during 10–45 h) at 450 °С (see Tables 3 and 4). These results show that, at lower concentration of carbon atoms in the crystal (NC    316 cm1043  ), the ITD  , which are formed during the low-temperature annealing of silicon crystals (doped with oxygen) at the temperature about 450 °С, most likely serve as the nucleation centers of IITD  . Indeed, as seen from the Table 3, a significant change in the concentration of ne is observed after the thermoannealing for 10 h at 450 °С The two-stage thermoannealing changes not only the concentration of the electrically active thermodonors, which is evidenced by the change in the carrier concentration ne as compared with ne in the initial sample, but with the increase of ITA  time qualitative changes occur in the characteristic of newly-formed thermocentres, as it is evidenced by the change in their ability to ionization with increasing the ITA  time, as well as the growth of the ratio    K77/K300 ee nn from 1 to 1.14 (see Table 3). The appearance and growth of EPR-activity in thermodonors with increasing the IITA  time is also of great interest (see the data in column 7 of Table 4). This fact also indicates that the increase of the IITA  time (which followed the ITA  , Table 4) led not only to quantitative but also to qualitative changes of the thermodonors, which arose (and formed) as a result of the combined thermal treatments [( ITA  ) + ( IITA  )]. The latent period for the formation of the nucleation centers of IITD  at low-temperature annealing (at the temperature close to 450 °С) is no less than 5 h, as seen from the Table 3. While EPR-activity in the studied samples appeared only after IITA  , the duration of which was t  10 hours (see Table 4, columns 6 and 7). It should be noted that ITD  under the normal conditions (i.e., when the crystal is free of any impurities) do not show EPR-activity, which is evidently explained by the presence of their double charge. In contrast with ITD  , IITD  show the EPR-activity that is clearly seen from the data of Table 4. Semiconductor Physics, Quantum Electronics & Optoelectronics, 2012. V. 15, N 3. P. 218-222. © 2012, V. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 220 Table 2. Influence of the annealing at various temperatures on the electrophysical properties of n – Si samples. The time of thermoannealings (I and II) is approximately the same. Annealing at 450 °С (TA-I) Annealing at 650 °С (TA-II) 300 K 77 K 300 K 77 K Ingot Annealing time (hour) ne10-14, сm-3 10-3, сm2/(Vs) ne10-14, сm-3 10-3, сm2/(Vs) ne10-14, сm-3 10-3, сm2/(Vs) ne10-14, сm-3 10-3, сm2/(Vs) 0 2.55 1.790 2.58 18.2 2.56 1.790 2.58 18.2 1 3.07 1.790 2.72 17.8 2.22 1.310 2.31 17.6 5 4.01 1.720 2.92 18.0 2.44 1.740 2.47 18.2 10 6.08 1.770 3.66 17.9 2.47 1.660 2.46 17.6 20 8.61 1.630 4.37 16.4 2.35 1.790 2.40 18.2 45 12.70 1.550 5.43 15.0 2.44 1.740 2.47 18.2 І 66 19.00 1.140 6.82 12.3 – – – – 0 1.5 1.590 1.20 17.4 1.5 1.590 1.26 17.4 1 3.18 1.480 1.98 15.2 1.87 1.670 1.79 15.7 2 5.16 1.440 2.70 14.5 2.81 1.530 2.17 15.5 3 8.66 1.330 3.49 14.4 3.22 1.430 2.56 14.6 5 12.8 1.430 4.7 14.3 8.45 1.300 5.32 13.2 10 24.9 1.400 7.11 14.0 16.9 1.320 8.73 12.0 15 38.8 1.220 10.5 11.66 25.0 1.350 7.80 12.0 45 83.6 1.180 18 10.6 33.6 1.170 7.14 10.8 ІІ 101 – – – – 32.0 1.160 6.40 10,6 Table 3. Influence of the time of preliminary annealing on the results of the two-stage thermal treatment of n – Si samples prepared from the ingot 1. Time of 1-st stage of ТA at 450 °С, hour (TA-I) Time of 2-nd stage of ТA at 650 °С, hour (TA-II) 300 K ne10-14, сm-3 77 K ne10-14, сm-3 300 K n10-13, сm-3 5 2.44 2.44 0 10 2.87 2.80 4.2 20 3.07 2.85 6.2 45 3.35 2.95 9.0 Initial sample 40 2.45 2,45 – 4. Influence of thermoannealings (at Тann = 540…900 °С) applied to heavily doped single crystals of n – Ge As on the change in concentrations of charge carriers and their mobilities The investigation of changes in the concentrations of charge carriers ne and their mobilities  as a result of thermoannealings of AsGen  single crystals grown by the Czochralski method at various temperatures (when the annealing time in all the cases was 30 min) was carried out. Cooling the crystals to room temperature was achieved by simple turning-off the heat source. The obtained results that are summarized in Table 5 showed that changes of the main parameters (ne and ) in the heavily doped samples of AsGen  with an increase of Тann from 540 up to 900 °С are not monotonous. Certainly, because after some decrease of ne, related to the thermoannealing within the range 600…725 °С of ITD  , formed in the crystal with the residual oxygen impurity at the temperature range 500…540 °С, the concentration ne begins to increase due to transition into the temperature range 830…900 °С. In this range, the so-called IITD  are formed from atomic oxygen appeared as a result of ITD  decay. This transformation of ITD  into IITD  is observed in oxygen impurity rich crystals (exactly these samples were used in these experiments). Semiconductor Physics, Quantum Electronics & Optoelectronics, 2012. V. 15, N 3. P. 218-222. © 2012, V. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 221 Table 4. Data obtained after two-stage thermal treatment of n – Si. The samples were prepared from the ingot 1. ЕPR ТDN Stage of ТA Тann, °С Time of ТA t, hour 300 K ne10-14, сm-3 77 K ne10-14, сm-3 ЕPR Р ЕPR ТD N N ЕPR ТDN 10-3 сm-3 300 K n10-13, сm-3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Initial sample – – 3.0 3.0 0 0 0 Stage 1 450 45 12.7 5.43 0 0 97 5 3.02 2.76 0 0 0.2 10 3.05 2.79 0.02 0.6 0.5 20 3.62 3.10 0.165 5.0 6.2 45 4.75 3.33 0.423 13.0 17.5 Stage 2 650 66 6.19 3.06 – – 31.9 Table 5. Changes in the concentrations of charge carriers ne and their mobilities  as a result of thermoannealings of heavily doped samples of n – GeAs grown by the Czochralski method at various temperatures (the annealing time in all the cases was 30 min). State of sample Changes of ne after ТA Number of sample Initial (In) Conditions of ТA: Тann, °С; t = 0.5 h Charge carrier concentration ne  10–19, сm–3 Charge carrier mobility , сm2/(Vs) n0 Changes (), no changes (0) In 3.57 322 n01 540 °С 3.57 310 no changes (0) In 3.85 286 n02 600 °С 3.51 300 decreases (–) In 3.90 270 n03 640 °С 3.15 290 decreases (–) In 4.00 278 n04 725 °С 4.00 263 no changes (0) In 4.02 272 n05 800 °С 4.56 246 increases (+) In 4.00 280 n06 830 °С 4.87 230 increases (+) In 3.88 292 n07 900 °С 4.68 248 increases (+) Note. Temperature of measurements was 293…300 K. It should be noted that the atoms of background impurities (oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen or helium) in the lattice of silicon and germanium are the defects that can directly or indirectly (due to creating the local mechanical strains) affect the properties of crystals. The significant concentration of oxygen impurity (NО  31817 cm102105  ) in the ingots, pulled out from the melt, as well as the ability of this impurity to transform into the electrically active state during thermoannealing, led to the need to study in detail the behaviour of the ITD  and IITD  . 5. Conclusions In the oxygen-containing single crystals n – Si and n – Ge, transformation of thermodonors TD – I into TD – II during the change of thermoannealing regimes, which are widely used in the manufacture of semiconductor devices, was investigated. In crystals Sin  that were characterized by the different concentration of dopant (phosphorus) and residual (oxygen and carbon) impurities, the influence of low-temperature (450 °С) and high-temperature (650 °С) Semiconductor Physics, Quantum Electronics & Optoelectronics, 2012. V. 15, N 3. P. 218-222. © 2012, V. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 222 thermoannealings on the change in the carrier concentration was studied. It is shown that the results of high-temperature thermoannealings (at 650 °С) with different time duration depend significantly on the initial state of the investigated crystals and on the specific parameters of the low-temperature thermoannealing (at 450 °С), which was applied to the crystal before its high- temperature thermal treatment. 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Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, NAS of Ukraine, 45, prospect Nauky, 03680 Kyiv, Ukraine 2Institute for Nuclear Research, NAS of Ukraine, 47, prospect Nauky, 03680 Kyiv, Ukraine Е mail: gaydar@kinr.kiev.ua Abstract. Investigated in this work were changes in the concentration of charge carriers ne and their mobilities (, which occur under the influence of thermoannealing of Si n - and Ge n - crystals grown by the Czochralski method. Thermoannealing of Si n - samples was carried out both at 450 °C and 650 °C. The results of the influence of two-stage (combined) thermoannealing have been presented. In the first series of experiments, the annealing was performed at 450 °C with varied duration (from 5 to 45 h) at the beginning, and then it was carried out for 40 hours at 650 °C. The second series of experiments was as follows: the annealing at 450 °C for 45-hour duration, then the annealing at 650 °C, which was carried out for various periods of time (5, 10, 20, 45, 66 hours). The observations for changes of ne and ( were carried out both at the temperature 300 and 77 K. It is ascertained that changing the main parameters (ne and () in As Ge n - heavily doped single crystals, as a result of the series of thermoannealings (duration 30 min in each case) within the temperature range from 540 to 900 °C, is non-monotonous due to transformation of the thermodonors I TD - into II TD - . Keywords: silicon, germanium, oxygen, thermoannealing, thermodonor, the Hall effect, carrier concentration, mobility. Manuscript received 07.05.12; revised version received 30.05.12; accepted for publication 14.06.12; published online 25.09.12. 1. Introduction It is known [1] that the thermal treatment of silicon crystals doped with oxygen within the temperature range 350 to 550 °С leads to formation of donor centers and change in the resistance of samples. Having learned the kinetics of thermodonor formation, Kaiser et al. [2, 3] concluded that these centers have oxygen nature and represent a complex containing four atoms of oxygen (SiO4). The thermodonor properties were described in detail in the review [4]. Investigations of the thermodonor properties [1, 2] showed that their donor activity disappears after a short annealing at the temperatures above 550 °С. It was also observed [5] that the further thermal treatment at higher temperatures (550…800 °С) leads to the appearance of donor activity again. In [6] it was shown that these donor centers (the authors call them “new donors”) differed in many properties from the thermodonors that are formed in a lower temperature range (350…550 °С). In the literature [7], the low-temperature thermodonors are called the thermodonors I - ( I TD - ), and the “new donors” – the thermodonors II - ( II TD - ). In [6, 8–12], the influence of carbon impurities, as well as the preliminary annealing of samples at 400…500 °С, on the formation of II TD - was studied. It follows from the works [6, 8–11] that the preliminary annealing at 400…500 °С of Si single crystals with the low carbon content (NС < 3 16 cm 10 - ), as well as the presence of this impurity in the bulk of silicon in the appreciable amounts (NС < 3 16 cm 10 2 - × ), promotes the process of the formation of II TD - . On the other hand, the high content of carbon impurities in Sі (NС ( 3 16 cm 10 2 - × ) complicates the generation of I TD - [13]. In addition, the reduction of the ionization energy of I TD - with increasing the annealing time was found [14]. For the last few decades, scientists of the world have been shown great interest to the properties of Sі crystals doped with oxygen. And these studies have been still far from completed. For a long time the thermodonors have been actively studied using different techniques: the Hall effect [10, 14–16], the electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) [7, 17, 18], deep level transient spectroscopy (DLTS) [19–21], infrared spectroscopy [22, 23], photoluminescence [15] and others. However, despite the large number of studies [24], up to date an exact model of the donor center, which could describe all the existing experimental data, has not been developed. 2. Experimental For the experiments with thermoannealing (TA) the dislocation-free single crystals of Si n - , doped with phosphorus and grown by the Czochralski method, were used. The content of doping and residual impurities in the investigated crystals is presented in Table 1. A higher concentration of oxygen in the ingot 2 provided a higher concentration of I TD - (as compared to the ingot 1) after the thermoannealings at 450 °C ( I TA - ) of equal duration (see Table 2) as well as in the growing process itself. The resistivity ( in the ingot 2 was 10 Ohm(cm just when the growing process had been over, however, proceeding from the calculation of the quantity of added phosphorus as electrically active impurity, it could have been expected about 35 Ohm(cm. After the 16-h annealing of the ingot 2 at 450 °С, the carrier concentration increased up to n300K (  3 15 cm 0 1 7 . 5 - × ((300К ( 0.9 Оhm(сm). To achieve the value of n300K ( 3 14 cm 0 1 5 . 1 - × ((300K ( 28 Оhm(сm, which is close to the calculated ( value), the ingot 2 needed to be annealed for 1 hour at 650 °С. This value n300K ( 3 14 cm 0 1 5 . 1 - × was taken as the initial one and related to the phosphorus dopant in the ingot 2. Table 1. The content of main impurities in the crystals of n – Si. Т = 300 K. Ingot Doping concentration N, сm‑3 Phosphorus Oxygen Carbon 1 2.45 × 1014 5.1 × 1017 3.8 × 1016 2 1.50 × 1014 9.5 × 1017 3.0 × 1016 The carrier concentration (ne) in the ingot 1 corresponded to the calculated value. This fact and, perhaps, a lower concentration of oxygen in the ingot 1 (in comparison with that of the ingot 2) provided a higher stability of the ingot 1 with respect to the thermoannealing at 650 °С ( II TA - ) (see Table 2), although the carbon content in both ingots was almost identical. 3. Two-stage thermoannealing of n‑Si samples with a different content of oxygen impurity The abovementioned thermal stability of the ingot 1 with respect to II TA - (at 650 °С) was lost after its preliminary annealing (during 10–45 h) at 450 °С (see Tables 3 and 4). These results show that, at lower concentration of carbon atoms in the crystal (NC (  ( ) 3 16 cm 10 4 3 - ´ - ), the I TD - , which are formed during the low-temperature annealing of silicon crystals (doped with oxygen) at the temperature about 450 °С, most likely serve as the nucleation centers of II TD - . Indeed, as seen from the Table 3, a significant change in the concentration of ne is observed after the thermoannealing for 10 h at 450 °С The two-stage thermoannealing changes not only the concentration of the electrically active thermodonors, which is evidenced by the change in the carrier concentration ne as compared with ne in the initial sample, but with the increase of I TA - time qualitative changes occur in the characteristic of newly-formed thermocentres, as it is evidenced by the change in their ability to ionization with increasing the I TA - time, as well as the growth of the ratio ( ) ( ) K 77 / K 300 e e n n from 1 to 1.14 (see Table 3). The appearance and growth of EPR-activity in thermodonors with increasing the II TA - time is also of great interest (see the data in column 7 of Table 4). This fact also indicates that the increase of the II TA - time (which followed the I TA - , Table 4) led not only to quantitative but also to qualitative changes of the thermodonors, which arose (and formed) as a result of the combined thermal treatments [( I TA - ) + ( II TA - )]. The latent period for the formation of the nucleation centers of II TD - at low-temperature annealing (at the temperature close to 450 °С) is no less than 5 h, as seen from the Table 3. While EPR-activity in the studied samples appeared only after II TA - , the duration of which was t ( 10 hours (see Table 4, columns 6 and 7). It should be noted that I TD - under the normal conditions (i.e., when the crystal is free of any impurities) do not show EPR-activity, which is evidently explained by the presence of their double charge. In contrast with I TD - , II TD - show the EPR-activity that is clearly seen from the data of Table 4. ЕPR ТD N 4. Influence of thermoannealings (at Тann = 540…900 °С) applied to heavily doped single crystals of n – Ge (As( on the change in concentrations of charge carriers and their mobilities The investigation of changes in the concentrations of charge carriers ne and their mobilities ( as a result of thermoannealings of As Ge n - single crystals grown by the Czochralski method at various temperatures (when the annealing time in all the cases was 30 min) was carried out. Cooling the crystals to room temperature was achieved by simple turning-off the heat source. The obtained results that are summarized in Table 5 showed that changes of the main parameters (ne and () in the heavily doped samples of As Ge n - with an increase of Тann from 540 up to 900 °С are not monotonous. Certainly, because after some decrease of ne, related to the thermoannealing within the range 600…725 °С of I TD - , formed in the crystal with the residual oxygen impurity at the temperature range 500…540 °С, the concentration ne begins to increase due to transition into the temperature range (830…900 °С. In this range, the so-called II TD - are formed from atomic oxygen appeared as a result of I TD - decay. This transformation of I TD - into II TD - is observed in oxygen impurity rich crystals (exactly these samples were used in these experiments). ЕPR Р ЕPR ТD N N It should be noted that the atoms of background impurities (oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen or helium) in the lattice of silicon and germanium are the defects that can directly or indirectly (due to creating the local mechanical strains) affect the properties of crystals. The significant concentration of oxygen impurity (NО (  3 18 17 cm 10 2 10 5 - ´ - ´ ) in the ingots, pulled out from the melt, as well as the ability of this impurity to transform into the electrically active state during thermoannealing, led to the need to study in detail the behaviour of the I TD - and II TD - . 5. Conclusions In the oxygen-containing single crystals n – Si and n – Ge, transformation of thermodonors TD – I into TD – II during the change of thermoannealing regimes, which are widely used in the manufacture of semiconductor devices, was investigated. In crystals Si n - that were characterized by the different concentration of dopant (phosphorus) and residual (oxygen and carbon) impurities, the influence of low-temperature (450 °С) and high-temperature (650 °С) thermoannealings on the change in the carrier concentration was studied. 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M. Stavola, K.M. Lee, J.C. Nabity, P.E. Freeland, L.С. Kimerling, Site symmetry and ground-state characteristics for the oxygen donor in silicon // Phys. Rev. Lett. 54 (24), p. 2639-2642 (1985). 24. V.M. Babich, N.I. Bletskan, Е.F. Venger, Oxygen in Silicon Single Crystals. Interpres LТD, Kiev, 1997 (in Russian). Table 4. Data obtained after two-stage thermal treatment of n – Si. The samples were prepared from the ingot 1. Stage of ТA� Тann, °С� Time of ТA t, hour� 300 K ne(10�14, сm�3� 77 K ne(10�14, сm�3� � EMBED Equation.3 ���� 300 K (n(10�13, сm�3� � � � � � � � EMBED Equation.3 ���� � EMBED Equation.3 ���(10�3 сm�3� � � 1� 2� 3� 4� 5� 6� 7� 8� � Initial sample� –� –� 3.0� 3.0� 0� 0� 0� � Stage 1� 450� 45� 12.7� 5.43� 0� 0� 97� � Stage 2� 650� 5� 3.02� 2.76� 0� 0� 0.2� � � � 10� 3.05� 2.79� 0.02� 0.6� 0.5� � � � 20� 3.62� 3.10� 0.165� 5.0� 6.2� � � � 45� 4.75� 3.33� 0.423� 13.0� 17.5� � � � 66� 6.19� 3.06� –� –� 31.9� � Table 5. Changes in the concentrations of charge carriers ne and their mobilities ( as a result of thermoannealings of heavily doped samples of n – Ge(As( grown by the Czochralski method at various temperatures (the annealing time in all the cases was 30 min). Number of sample� State of sample� Charge carrier concentration ne ( 10–19, сm–3� Charge carrier mobility (, сm2/(V(s)� Changes of ne after ТA� � � Initial (In) Conditions of ТA: �Тann, °С; t = 0.5 h� � � n0 Changes ((), no changes (0)� � 1� In� 3.57� 322� n0� � � 540 °С� 3.57� 310� no changes (0)� � 2� In� 3.85� 286� n0� � � 600 °С� 3.51� 300� decreases (–)� � 3� In� 3.90� 270� n0� � � 640 °С� 3.15� 290� decreases (–)� � 4� In� 4.00� 278� n0� � � 725 °С� 4.00� 263� no changes (0)� � 5� In� 4.02� 272� n0� � � 800 °С� 4.56� 246� increases (+)� � 6� In� 4.00� 280� n0� � � 830 °С� 4.87� 230� increases (+)� � 7� In� 3.88� 292� n0� � � 900 °С� 4.68� 248� increases (+)� � Note. Temperature of measurements was 293…300 K. Table 2. Influence of the annealing at various temperatures on the electrophysical properties of n – Si samples. The time of thermoannealings (I and II) is approximately the same. Ingot� Annealing time (hour)� Annealing at 450 °С (TA-I)� Annealing at 650 °С (TA-II)� � � � 300 K� 77 K� 300 K� 77 K� � � � ne(10�14, сm�3� ((10�3, сm2/(V(s)� ne(10�14, сm�3� ((10�3, сm2/(V(s)� ne(10�14, сm�3� ((10�3, сm2/(V(s)� ne(10�14, сm�3� ((10�3, сm2/(V(s)� � І� 0� 2.55� 1.790� 2.58� 18.2� 2.56� 1.790� 2.58� 18.2� � � 1� 3.07� 1.790� 2.72� 17.8� 2.22� 1.310� 2.31� 17.6� � � 5� 4.01� 1.720� 2.92� 18.0� 2.44� 1.740� 2.47� 18.2� � � 10� 6.08� 1.770� 3.66� 17.9� 2.47� 1.660� 2.46� 17.6� � � 20� 8.61� 1.630� 4.37� 16.4� 2.35� 1.790� 2.40� 18.2� � � 45� 12.70� 1.550� 5.43� 15.0� 2.44� 1.740� 2.47� 18.2� � � 66� 19.00� 1.140� 6.82� 12.3� –� –� –� –� � ІІ� 0� 1.5� 1.590� 1.20� 17.4� 1.5� 1.590� 1.26� 17.4� � � 1� 3.18� 1.480� 1.98� 15.2� 1.87� 1.670� 1.79� 15.7� � � 2� 5.16� 1.440� 2.70� 14.5� 2.81� 1.530� 2.17� 15.5� � � 3� 8.66� 1.330� 3.49� 14.4� 3.22� 1.430� 2.56� 14.6� � � 5� 12.8� 1.430� 4.7� 14.3� 8.45� 1.300� 5.32� 13.2� � � 10� 24.9� 1.400� 7.11� 14.0� 16.9� 1.320� 8.73� 12.0� � � 15� 38.8� 1.220� 10.5� 11.66� 25.0� 1.350� 7.80� 12.0� � � 45� 83.6� 1.180� 18� 10.6� 33.6� 1.170� 7.14� 10.8� � � 101� –� –� –� –� 32.0� 1.160� 6.40� 10,6� � Table 3. 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