Effects of the density of collision cascades: Separating contributions from dynamic annealing and energy spikes |
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Authors: | A.I. Titov A.Yu. Azarov |
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Affiliation: | a Department of Physical Electronics, St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg 195251, Russian Federation b Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551, USA |
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Abstract: | We present a quantitative model for the efficiency of the molecular effect in damage buildup in semiconductors. Our model takes into account only one mechanism of the dependence of damage buildup efficiency on the density of collision cascades: nonlinear energy spikes. In our three-dimensional analysis, the volume of each individual collision cascade is divided into small cubic cells, and the number of cells that have an average density of displacements above some threshold value is calculated. We assume that such cells experience a catastrophic crystalline-to-amorphous phase transition, while defects in the cells with lower displacement densities have perfect annihilation. For the two limiting cases of heavy (500 keV/atom 209Bi) and light (40 keV/atom 14N) ion bombardment of Si, theory predictions are in good agreement with experimental data for a threshold displacement density of 4.5 at.%. For intermediate density cascades produced by small 2.1 keV/amu PFn clusters, we show that dynamic annealing processes entirely dominate cascade density effects for PF2 ions, while energy spikes begin contributing in the case of PF4 cluster bombardment. |
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Keywords: | 61.72.Cc 61.80.Az 61.80.Lj 61.82.Fk |
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