Trends in semiconductor defect engineering at the nanoscale

EG Seebauer, KW Noh - Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports, 2010 - Elsevier
Defect engineering involves manipulating the type, concentration, spatial distribution, or
mobility of defects within a crystalline solid. Defect engineering in semiconductors has …

Kinetic Monte Carlo simulation for semiconductor processing: A review

I Martin-Bragado, R Borges, JP Balbuena… - Progress in Materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) algorithm is a particularly apt technique to simulate
the complex processing of semiconductor devices. In this review, some of the main …

Mechanisms of Three-Dimensional Solid-Phase Epitaxial Crystallization of Strontium Titanate

TD Janicki, R Liu, S Im, Z Wan, S Butun… - Crystal Growth & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Strontium titanate (SrTiO3, STO) is a complex metal oxide with a cubic perovskite crystal
structure. Due to its easily described and understood crystal structure in the cubic phase …

Crystallization of amorphous complex oxides: New geometries and new compositions via solid phase epitaxy

PG Evans, Y Chen, JA Tilka, SE Babcock… - Current Opinion in Solid …, 2018 - Elsevier
The crystallization of amorphous complex oxides via solid phase epitaxy enables a wide
range of opportunities in the formation of oxide materials in new geometries and with …

Novel stress-memorization-technology (SMT) for high electron mobility enhancement of gate last high-k/metal gate devices

KY Lim, H Lee, C Ryu, KI Seo, U Kwon… - 2010 International …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-k/metal gate (HKMG) compatible high performance Source/Drain (S/D) stress-
memorization-technology (SMT) is presented. Channel stress generated by SMT can be …

Advances in ion beam modification of semiconductors

RG Elliman, JS Williams - Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials …, 2015 - Elsevier
This review provides an overview of the current status of ion-implantation research in silicon,
germanium and the compound semiconductors SiC, GaN and ZnO. The discussion of silicon …

Formation of Hexagonal Phase 9R-Si in SiO/Si System upon Kr Ion Implantation

AA Nikolskaya, DS Korolev, AN Mikhaylov… - Moscow University …, 2023 - Springer
Hexagonal silicon polytypes have attracted significant attention within the scientific
community due to their potential applications in next-generation electronics and photonics …

Atomic imprint crystallization: Externally-templated crystallization of amorphous silicon

K Tanaka, CP Horn, J Wen, RE Koritala, S Guha - Materials Today Physics, 2025 - Elsevier
In this paper, we demonstrate the crystallization of an amorphous Si layer via atomic imprint
crystallization (AIC), where an amorphous Si layer is crystallized by solid phase epitaxy …

Solid-phase epitaxy

BC Johnson, JC McCallum, MJ Aziz - Handbook of Crystal Growth, 2015 - Elsevier
We review the field of solid-phase epitaxy (SPE), a crystallization process during which
atoms undergo bonding rearrangements that allow them to transfer from a metastable …

Understanding Si (111) solid phase epitaxial regrowth using Monte Carlo modeling: Bi-modal growth, defect formation, and interface topology

I Martin-Bragado, B Sklenard - Journal of Applied Physics, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
This work studies the intriguing experimental observations that Si (111) solid phase epitaxial
regrowth velocity is not constant as recrystallization progresses, but has a sudden change …