Anomalous energetics and defect-assisted diffusion of Ga in silicon

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 4902-4904

  Melis, Claudio ^a   Lopez, Giorgia M ^a   Fiorentini, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; DIFFUSION; EXPLOSIVES; SILICON;

ENERGETICS; NATIVE-DEFECT ASSISTED DIFFUSION; SELF INTERSTITIALS; TRANSIENT ENHANCED DIFFUSION; VACANCY-ASSISTED DIFFUSION;

SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM;

EID: 19144369063     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1826230     Document Type: Article

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