Me. Rodriguez et al., Computational aspects of laser radiometric multiparameter fit for carrier transport property measurements in Si wafers, J ELCHEM SO, 147(2), 2000, pp. 687-698
A laser infrared photothermal radiometric (PTR) multiparameter-fit methodol
ogy has been developed to obtain unique measurements of the thermal and ele
ctronic parameters of industrial-type Si wafers. The influence of recombina
tion lifetime, front, and back surface recombination velocities, carrier el
ectronic diffusion coefficient, thermal diffusivity (alpha), as well as of
the total plasma and thermal contributions to the PTR signal as a function
of frequency is examined computationally and experimentally in this paper.
Silicon wafers with low and high resistivity were studied with the proposed
methodology. A strong correlation between nominal resistivity, front surfa
ce recombination velocity, and recombination lifetime was found: higher res
istivity wafers are likely to have lower surface recombination velocity and
longer lifetimes. The first PTR lifetime scanned image of subsurface elect
ronic defects has also been produced. (C) 2000 The Electrochemical Society.
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