Mechanism of Gold Diffusion into Silicon
- 1 January 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 35 (1), 240-246
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1713077
Abstract
Gold was found to diffuse into silicon by a complex mechanism involving a vacancy‐controlled interstitial‐substitutional equilibrium. This led to very complex diffusion concentration profiles. In analyzing the problem, a new experimental value was found for the self‐diffusion coefficient of silicon, 1.81×104 exp(−112±20 kcal/RT) cm2/sec, which compared very favorably with previous data on diffusion of bismuth,germanium, and tin in silicon. The interstitial gold‐diffusion coefficient was found to be 2.4×10−4 exp(−8.9±2 kcal/RT), the substitutional gold‐diffusion coefficient to be 2.75×10−3 exp(−47±10 kcal/RT), the equilibrium‐interstitial goldsolubility to be 5.95×1024 exp(−58±10 kcal/RT), and the equilibrium‐substitutional goldsolubility (Collin's data) below 1200°C to be 8.15×1022 exp(−40.6 kcal/RT).Keywords
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