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We have studied the low-temperature diffusion of sodium atoms implanted (at primary ion energy E = 300 keV to total doses within Φ = 5 × 1014–3 × 1015 cm–2) in single-crystalline silicon grown by the method of float-zone melting (fz-Si) with low oxygen concentration N O and by the Czochralski method in the presence of magnetic field (mCz-n-Si and mCz-p-Si) with N O ≈ 5 × 1017 cm–3. The diffusion was studied at annealing temperatures within T ann = 500–420°C for periods of time t ann = 72–1000 h. It is established that the temperature dependence of the diffusion coefficient D(103/T) of sodium in fz-Si in a broad range of T ann = 900–420°C obeys the Arrhenius law with E fz = 1.28 eV and D 0 = 1.4 × 10–2 cm2/s. The same parameters are valid for the implanted sodium diffusion in mCz-Si in the interval of T ann = 900–700°C. However, at lower temperatures, the values of D in mCz-Si are lower than to those in fz-Si, which is related to the formation of more complicated Na–O n (n > 1) complexes in the former case. Estimation of the diffusion activation energy of these complexes yields ΔE ≈ 2.3 eV.
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Original Russian Text © A.V. Zastavnoi, V.M. Korol’, 2016, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2016, Vol. 42, No. 8, pp. 53–60.
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Zastavnoi, A.V., Korol’, V.M. Low-temperature diffusion of implanted sodium in silicon. Tech. Phys. Lett. 42, 415–418 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785016040295
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