Computational aspects of laser radiometric multiparameter fit for carrier transport property measurements in Si wafers

Citation
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
Citations number
29
Categorie Soggetti
Physical Chemistry/Chemical Physics","Material Science & Engineering
Journal title
JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY
ISSN journal
00134651 → ACNP
Volume
147
Issue
2
Year of publication
2000
Pages
687 - 698
Database
ISI
SICI code
0013-4651(200002)147:2<687:CAOLRM>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
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. S0013-4651(99)05-082-X. All rights reserved.