• Acta Physica Sinica
  • Vol. 68, Issue 17, 178501-1 (2019)
Chen Wang1、*, Yi-Hong Xu2, Cheng Li3, Hai-Jun Lin1, and Ming-Jie Zhao1
Author Affiliations
  • 1Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Technology and Devices, School of Opti-electronic andCommunication Engineering, Xiamen University of Technology, Xiamen 361024, China
  • 2Department of Electric and Information Engineering, Xiamen Institute of Technology, Xiamen 361024, China
  • 3Department of Physics, Semiconductor Photonics Research Center, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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    DOI: 10.7498/aps.68.20190699 Cite this Article
    Chen Wang, Yi-Hong Xu, Cheng Li, Hai-Jun Lin, Ming-Jie Zhao. Improved performance of Al/n+Ge Ohmic contact andGe n+/p diode by two-step annealing method [J]. Acta Physica Sinica, 2019, 68(17): 178501-1 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Silicon based germanium devices are crucial parts of optoelectronic integration as CMOS feature size continuously decreases. Germanium has attracted increasing attention due to its higher electron and hole mobility, larger optical absorption coefficient as well as lower processing temperature than those of silicon. However, the high diffusion coefficient and low solid solubility about n-type dopant and relatively high thermal budget required for high n-type doping in Ge make it difficult to achieve high activation n-type doping and excellent n+/p shallow junction for source/drain in the nano-scaled n-MOSFET (here MOSFET stands for). The high activation concentration and shallow junction n-type doping in Ge are greatly beneficial to the scaled Ge n-MOSFET technology. In this work, the ohmic contact of Al/n+Ge and Ge n+/p junction fabricated by a combination of low temperature pre-annealing process and excimer laser annealing for phosphorus-implanted germanium are demonstrated. Prior to excimer laser annealing, the samplesare annealed at a relatively low temperature, which can heal the implantation damages preliminarily. Through the optimization of pre-annealing temperature and time, the low temperature pre-annealing step can play a critical role in annihilating the implantation damages and significantly suppressing phosphorus diffusion in the laser annealing process, resulting in a very small dopant diffusion length at a high activation level of phosphorus. Through the combination of ion implantation and two-step annealing technology, the specific contact resistivity (ρC) of Al/n+Ge Ohmic contact is measured by CTLM structure. The optimized annealing condition is 400 oC-10 min of low temperature annealing and 150 mJ/cm2 of ELA. Under that annealing condition, the ρC of the sample by two-step annealing is reduced to 2.61 × 10–6 Ω·cm2, which is one order of magnitude lower than that by ELA alone (about 3.44 × 10–4 Ω·cm2). The lower value of ρC for the sample with LTPA can contribute to the higher carrier concentration and better crystalline quality thanthat without LTPA, which is confirmed by SRP and TEM. Moreover, the rectification ratio of Ge n+/p junction diode is improved to 8.35 × 106 at ± 1 V, which is two orders of magnitudes higher than that by ELA alone. And a lower ideality factor of about 1.07 is also obtained than that by ELA alone, which indicates that the implantation damages can be repaired perfectly by two-step annealing method.
    Chen Wang, Yi-Hong Xu, Cheng Li, Hai-Jun Lin, Ming-Jie Zhao. Improved performance of Al/n+Ge Ohmic contact andGe n+/p diode by two-step annealing method [J]. Acta Physica Sinica, 2019, 68(17): 178501-1
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