Low Resistivity Aluminum Doped Layers Formed Using High Dose High Temperature Implants and Laser Annealing

Abstract:

This paper demonstrates for the first time a new annealing scheme to form p-type junctions in SiC by high temperature ion implantation followed by laser annealing without the use of a protective carbon capping layer. This novel approach leverages higher substrate temperatures during implant to minimize implant-induced defects during ion implantation, which enables the use of reduced thermal budget laser annealing for dopant activation. Laser annealing enables higher surface temperatures in the implanted layer than conventional annealing using a high temperature furnace. The shorter thermal budget results in higher dopant activation while minimizing, the formation of extended defects observed during high thermal budget furnace annealing, which can lead to undesirable degradation in device performance. By using laser annealing with no carbon capping layer, the sheet resistance of the implanted layers is reduced up to 6 times with respect to the conventional process (using a furnace anneal and carbon capping layers).

• Periodical: Solid State Phenomena (Volume 359)
• Pages: 21-28
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/p-7T0Wv7
• Online since: August 2024
• Authors: Fulvio Mazzamuto*, Zeinab Chehadi, Fabien Roze, Mathieu Opprecht, Atul Gupta, Sébastien Kerdilès, Toshiyuki Tabata, Mike Ameen, Dwight Dongwan Roh, Christina Sohl, Mihai Lazar, Leonard M. Rubin, Louis Thuries
• Keywords: Aluminum Implantation, Carbon Capping, Damage Annealing, Dopant Activation, Furnace Annealing, High Temperature Implantation, Laser Annealing, P-Type Junction, SiC

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