Abstract
We have grown an 80-Å-thick strained Si 0.50 Ge 0.50 layer on n-Si by molecular-beam epitaxy. The strained layer is used to lower the Schottky barrier height for making a nonalloyed shallow ohmic contact to the n-Si. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy was employed to investigate the Si 2p and Ge 3d core-level binding energies of the strained and the relaxed Si 0.50 Ge 0.50 and to determine their relative Fermi-level positions. Rutherford backscattering and Auger depth profiling were employed to determine the contact reactions using Ti, W, or Pt as contact metals. In the case of Pt, a 500-Å W diffusion barrier can protect the ohmic behavior up to 550°C for 30 min. The specific contact resistance of the metal/Si 0.50 Ge 0.50 /n-Si contact extracted from the D-type cross-bridge Kelvin resistor was 3.5×10 -5 Ω cm 2 .
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 911-913 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
Volume | 63 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Dec 1993 |