Ion-Beam Synthesis of Si-Ge Nanostructures.
N. N. Gerasimenko
1,
V. Yu Troitskiy2 (

)
1Moscow Institute of Electronic Engeneering K-498 Laboratory
of RadiationMethods of Technology and Analysis
2Scientific Research Institute for System Analysis,
Nakhimovsky pr. 36-1 117218, Moscow, Russia.
The perspective of nanostructure fabrication in “silicon – germanium” systems
is associated with device applications and with peculiarities of their
formation processes, based on the effect of selforganization. At present the
manufacturing methods of such structures are still based either on
CVD-processes or on molecular-beam epitaxy processes.
This work is devoted to the results of fabrication of such structures by means
of ion implantation. We used Ge ion beams with the following parameters:
energy E=50 and 150 keV, ion beam density 5 mkÀ·ñm-2, the implanted dose
varied from 1015 to 1017 ñm-2.
The analysis of implanted structures was carried out by Atomic-Force
Microscope (AFM) in combination with phase analysis and Fourier analysis of
surface images and by Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS). The
measurements were performed both directly after implantation and after
subsequent annealing.
After implantation we observed the structuring of silicon surface, at the same
time the dimensions of typical elements increased under increasing of
implantation dose. Fourier analysis showed that in this case such structures
were well-ordered and their elements had dimensions in nanometer range.
According SIMS measurements after implantation introduced germanium atoms had
standard depth distribution. No evidence of Ge accumulation on the silicon
surface was observed. The formation of wellordered structure on the silicon
surface after germanium implantation in our opinion is associated with the
formation of germanium-enriched clusters within implanted layer.
Ion beam induced clusterization gives, on the one hand, new capabilities for
fabrication of Si-Ge nanostructures, on the other hand should be taken into
account when germanium implantation is used for silicon preamorphization
during shallow junctions formation.