Thermal annealing and evolution of defects in neutron-irradiated cubic SiC

A careful study of neutron-irradiated cubic SiC crystals (3С-SiC(n)) has been performed using electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) in the course of their thermal annealing within the 200…1100 °C temperature range. Several inherent temperatures have been found for annealing and transformations of pr...

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Published in:Semiconductor Physics Quantum Electronics & Optoelectronics
Date:2015
Main Authors: Bratus, V.Ya., Melnyk, R.S., Shanina, B.D., Okulov, S.M.
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Published: Інститут фізики напівпровідників імені В.Є. Лашкарьова НАН України 2015
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Shanina, B.D.
Okulov, S.M.
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citation_txt Thermal annealing and evolution of defects in neutron-irradiated cubic SiC / V.Ya. Bratus’, R.S. Melnyk, B.D. Shanina, S.M. Okulov // Semiconductor Physics Quantum Electronics & Optoelectronics. — 2015. — Т. 18, № 4. — С. 403-409. — Бібліогр.: 30 назв. — англ.
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description A careful study of neutron-irradiated cubic SiC crystals (3С-SiC(n)) has been performed using electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) in the course of their thermal annealing within the 200…1100 °C temperature range. Several inherent temperatures have been found for annealing and transformations of primary defects in 3С-SiC(n) among which there are isolated negatively charged silicon vacancy VSi⁻, neutral divacancy (VSi–VC)⁰, negatively charged carbon vacancyantisite pair (VC–CSi)⁻ and neutral carbon (100) split interstitial (CC)C⁰. It has been shown that transformation of VSi⁻ into (VC–CSi)⁻ complex is among the mechanisms of silicon vacancy annealing. As it has been established on the basis of the observed hyperfine structure, the secondary T6 center is characterized by the fourfold silicon coordination and assigned to the spin S = 3/2 carbon vacancy-related pair defect. The symmetry reduction of the (VC–VSi)⁰ center is attributed to local rearrangements in the neighborhood of divacancy, and its intensity variations are assigned to changes of the Fermi-level position. Two defects with similar symmetry and close values of zero-field splitting constants D, which concentrations increase by a factor of ten after annealing at 900 °С, are tentatively attributed to the (100) split interstitial (CC)C⁰ and (NС)С⁰ pairs
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Melnyk, R.S.
Shanina, B.D.
Okulov, S.M.
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Thermal annealing and evolution of defects in neutron-irradiated cubic SiC / V.Ya. Bratus’, R.S. Melnyk, B.D. Shanina, S.M. Okulov // Semiconductor Physics Quantum Electronics & Optoelectronics. — 2015. — Т. 18, № 4. — С. 403-409. — Бібліогр.: 30 назв. — англ.
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DOI: 10.15407/spqeo18.04.403
PACS 61.72.Bb, 61.72.Ji, 61.80.Fe, 61.82.Fk
https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/121255
A careful study of neutron-irradiated cubic SiC crystals (3С-SiC(n)) has been performed using electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) in the course of their thermal annealing within the 200…1100 °C temperature range. Several inherent temperatures have been found for annealing and transformations of primary defects in 3С-SiC(n) among which there are isolated negatively charged silicon vacancy VSi⁻, neutral divacancy (VSi–VC)⁰, negatively charged carbon vacancyantisite pair (VC–CSi)⁻ and neutral carbon (100) split interstitial (CC)C⁰. It has been shown that transformation of VSi⁻ into (VC–CSi)⁻ complex is among the mechanisms of silicon vacancy annealing. As it has been established on the basis of the observed hyperfine structure, the secondary T6 center is characterized by the fourfold silicon coordination and assigned to the spin S = 3/2 carbon vacancy-related pair defect. The symmetry reduction of the (VC–VSi)⁰ center is attributed to local rearrangements in the neighborhood of divacancy, and its intensity variations are assigned to changes of the Fermi-level position. Two defects with similar symmetry and close values of zero-field splitting constants D, which concentrations increase by a factor of ten after annealing at 900 °С, are tentatively attributed to the (100) split interstitial (CC)C⁰ and (NС)С⁰ pairs
The authors are grateful to the Center of Shared Research Equipment of Institute of Magnetism of the National Academy Science of Ukraine for placing at their disposal the EPR spectrometer for some temperature measurements
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Інститут фізики напівпровідників імені В.Є. Лашкарьова НАН України
Semiconductor Physics Quantum Electronics & Optoelectronics
Thermal annealing and evolution of defects in neutron-irradiated cubic SiC
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Bratus, V.Ya.
Melnyk, R.S.
Shanina, B.D.
Okulov, S.M.
title Thermal annealing and evolution of defects in neutron-irradiated cubic SiC
title_full Thermal annealing and evolution of defects in neutron-irradiated cubic SiC
title_fullStr Thermal annealing and evolution of defects in neutron-irradiated cubic SiC
title_full_unstemmed Thermal annealing and evolution of defects in neutron-irradiated cubic SiC
title_short Thermal annealing and evolution of defects in neutron-irradiated cubic SiC
title_sort thermal annealing and evolution of defects in neutron-irradiated cubic sic
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