STUDIES OF MICROPLASMAS AND HIGH-FIELD EFFECTS IN SILICON

Abstract

The experimental calibration of the etch rate for boiling-water/HF-dip etching has been carried out by using a microbalance to measure weight loss. This calibration as been used to obtain impurityed report DESCRIPTORS: *Silicon, Plasma physics, Thin films, *Semiconductors, Electric fields, Lat tices, *Photoemission, Electrons, Diffusion, Theory, Photoelectric materials, Photoelectric effects, Mathematical analysis, Tests. The experimental calibration of the etch rate for boiling-water/HF-dip etching has been carried out by using a microbalance to measure weight loss. This calibration as been used to obtain impurity profiles for different layers of about 1000 angstroms depth. Experimental results are reported for electron emission from silicon p-n junctions. The t eoretical form for hot electron distributions for several extreme conditions of mean free path and ionization threshold is derived. (Author 0

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 31, 1961
Accession Number
AD0260579

Entities

People

  • J.l. Moll
  • S. Sze

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Body Weight
  • Calibration
  • Electric Fields
  • Electron Emission
  • Electrons
  • Emission
  • Films
  • Materials
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Mean Free Path
  • P-N Junctions
  • Photoelectric Effect
  • Photoelectric Materials
  • Photoexcitation
  • Semiconductors
  • Thin Films

Readers

  • Plasma Physics.
  • Regression Analysis.
  • Semiconductor Device Technology

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Graphene