Imaging of buried phosphorus nanostructures in silicon using scanning tunneling microscopy
Imaging of buried phosphorus nanostructures in silicon using scanning tunneling microscopy
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DOI:
10.1063/1.4884654
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发表时间:
2014-06-23
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4
通讯作者:
Simmons, Michelle Y.
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Oberbeck, Lars;Reusch, Thilo C. G.;Simmons, Michelle Y.
We demonstrate the locating and imaging of single phosphorus atoms and phosphorus dopant nanostructures, buried beneath the Si(001) surface using scanning tunneling microscopy. The buried dopant nanostructures have been fabricated in a bottom-up approach using scanning tunneling microscope lithography on Si(001). We find that current imaging tunneling spectroscopy is suited to locate and image buried nanostructures at room temperature and with residual surface roughness present. From these studies, we can place an upper limit on the lateral diffusion during encapsulation with low-temperature Si molecular beam epitaxy. (C) 2014 Author(s). All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.