Al and B ion-implantations in 6H- and 3C-SiC

Abstract

Low (keV) and high (MeV) energy Al and B implants were performed into n-type 6H- and 3C-SiC at both room temperature and 850 °C. The material was annealed at 1100, 1200, or 1400 °C for 10 min and characterized by secondary ion mass spectrometry, Rutherford backscattering (RBS), photoluminescence, Hall and capacitance-voltage measurement techniques. For both Al and B implants, the implant species was gettered at 0.7 Rp (where Rp is the projected range) in samples implanted at 850 °C and annealed at 1400 °C. In the samples that were amorphized by the room temperature implantation, a distinct damage peak remained in the RBS spectrum even after 1400 °C annealing. For the samples implanted at 850 °C, which were not amorphized, the damage peak disappeared after 1400 °C annealing. P-type conduction is observed only in samples implanted by Al at 850 °C and annealed at 1400 °C in Ar, with 1% dopant electrical activation.