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Shayesteh, Maryam; Huet, Karim; Toqué-Tresonne, Inès; Negru, Razvan; Daunt, Chris L. M.; Kelly, Niall; O’Connell, Dan; Yu, Ran; Djara, Vladimir; Carolan, Patrick B.; Petkov, Nikolay; Duffy, Ray
2013
June
IEEE Transactions On Electron Devices
Atomically flat low-resistive germanide contacts formed by laser thermal anneal
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Electrical contacts Laser beam annealing Flat low resistive germanide contacts Laser thermal annealing Rapid thermal annealing Surface topography Interface quality Crystal structure Material stoichiometry Annealing technique Electrical characterization Thermal stability Smooth substrate interface Specific contact resistivity Optimized laser thermal anneal energy Density conditions Nickel Substrates Lasers Contacts Surface treatment Contact resistance Germanium Sheet resistance Transfer length method TLM
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In this paper, state-of-the-art laser thermal annealing is used to form germanide contacts on n-doped Ge and is systematically compared with results generated by conventional rapid thermal annealing. Surface topography, interface quality, crystal structure, and material stoichiometry are explored for both annealing techniques. For electrical characterization, specific contact resistivity and thermal stability are extracted. It is shown that laser thermal annealing can produce a uniform contact with a remarkably smooth substrate interface with specific contact resistivity two to three orders of magnitude lower than the equivalent rapid thermal annealing case. It is shown that a specific contact resistivity of 2.84 × 10-7O·cm2is achieved for optimized laser thermal anneal energy density conditions.
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https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6530663
10.1109/TED.2013.2263336
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