Phosphorus ionization in silicon doped by self-assembled macromolecular monolayers

Individual dopant atoms can be potentially controlled at large scale by the self-assembly of macromolecular dopant carriers. However, low concentration phosphorus dopants often suffer from a low ionization rate due to defects and impurities introduced by the carrier molecules. In this work, we demonstrated a nitrogen-free macromolecule doping technique and investigated the phosphorus ionization process by low temperature Hall effect measurements. It was found that the phosphorus dopants diffused into the silicon bulk are in nearly full ionization. However, the electrons ionized from the phosphorus dopants are mostly trapped by deep level defects that are likely carbon interstitials.

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