Formation of Precipitates in Heavily Boron Doped 4H-SiC
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Linnarsson, M K
Janson, M S
Nordell, N
Wong-Leung, Jennifer
Schoner, A
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Secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) are utilized to study precipitation and the solubility of B in 4H-SiC epitaxial layers super saturated with B. Heat treatments are performed in Ar atmosphere in an rf-heated furnace at temperatures between 1700 and 2000 °C. SIMS ion images, and TEM micrographs reveal the formation of two types of precipitates where the larger, more thermally stable one is suggested to be B4C. The boron solubility is determined from SIMS depth profiles and is shown to follow the Arrhenius expression: 7.1 × 1022 exp(-1.4 eV/kBT) cm-3 over the studied temperature range.
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Applied Surface Science
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