Seventy-five years since the point-contact transistor: Germanium revisited

EN Sgourou, A Daskalopulu, LH Tsoukalas… - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The advent of the point-contact transistor is one of the most significant technological
achievements in human history with a profound impact on human civilization during the past …

The impact of focused ion beam induced damage on scanning spreading resistance microscopy measurements

K Pandey, K Paredis, T Hantschel, C Drijbooms… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Scanning Spreading Resistance Microscopy is a well-established technique for
obtaining quantitative two-and three-dimensional carrier profiles in semiconductor devices …

[HTML][HTML] Silicon diffusion in AlN

V Bonito Oliva, D Mangelinck, S Hagedorn… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In this study, we investigate the diffusion of Si donors in AlN. Amorphous S i 1− x N x
sputtered on the surface of bulk AlN with low dislocation density is used as a Si source. The …

Determination of lithium diffusion coefficients in single battery active material particles by using an AFM-based steady-state diffusion depolarization technique

D Renz, M Cronau, B Roling - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2021 - ACS Publications
In lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), the ambipolar diffusion coefficient of lithium in the active
material particles of the composite electrodes is a key parameter for the battery performance …

Optimized dopant imaging for GaN by a scanning electron microscopy

K Zhang, CG Ban, Y Yuan, L Huang - Journal of Microscopy, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Two‐dimensional dopant profiling is vital for the modelling, design, diagnosis and
performance improvement of semiconductor devices and related research and …

Monolayer doping of germanium with arsenic: A new chemical route to achieve optimal dopant activation

N Kennedy, S Garvey, B Maccioni, L Eaton, M Nolan… - Langmuir, 2020 - ACS Publications
Reported here is a new chemical route for the wet chemical functionalization of germanium
(Ge), whereby arsanilic acid is covalently bound to a chlorine (Cl)-terminated surface. This …

Dissolution of donor-vacancy clusters in heavily doped n-type germanium

S Prucnal, MO Liedke, X Wang, M Butterling… - New Journal of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The n-type doping of Ge is a self-limiting process due to the formation of vacancy-donor
complexes (D n V with n⩽ 4) that deactivate the donors. This work unambiguously …

Understanding the effect of confinement in scanning spreading resistance microscopy measurements

K Pandey, K Paredis, AJ Robson… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Scanning spreading resistance microscopy (SSRM) is a powerful technique for quantitative
two-and three-dimensional carrier profiling of semiconductor devices with sub-nm spatial …

[HTML][HTML] Nitrogen-vacancy defects in germanium

N Kuganathan, RW Grimes, A Chroneos - AIP Advances, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
While nitrogen doping has been investigated extensively in silicon, there is only limited
information on its interaction with vacancies in germanium, despite most point defect …

Retarded boron and phosphorus diffusion in silicon nanopillars due to stress induced vacancy injection

JK Prüßing, T Böckendorf, F Kipke, J Xu… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Phosphorus and boron diffusion in silicon at temperatures between 900 and 1050 C was
studied both in bulk and nanostructured samples by means of scanning spreading …