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Oxygen '96

Early Stages of Oxygen Precipitation in Silicon


26th - 29th March 1996
NATO Advanced Research Workshop

Co-sponsored by the University of Exeter


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The workshop will take place on the main University of Exeter campus. Participants will be accommodated in Lopes Hall of residence on the campus. All lectures will take place in the main theatre in the Engineering Building. A conference desk will be established in the Foyer of Engineering Building from Tuesday until Friday, 9:00-10:00. The poster sessions will take place in Lopes Hall. (A map of the campus is available, the Engineering building and Lopes halls of residence are on the right).

Urgent messages can be left with the secretary of the Physics Department during the conference:

Tel: +44 1392 264151
Fax: +44 1392 264111
The delegates phone number at Lopes Hall is
Tel: +44 1392 263891


Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday - Friday

Monday March 25

Participants arrive; a conference minibus service will run between Exeter St. David's station and Lopes Hall.

17:00-20:00Registration: Foyer of Lopes Hall
19:00-21:00Buffet Reception: Lopes Hall
21:00-23:30Registration: Foyer of Lopes Hall

Tuesday March 26

7:30-8:30Breakfast: Lopes Hall
9:00-9:15Introduction by the Vice Chancellor, Sir Geoffrey Holland
9:15-9:30The oxygen problem, R Jones
9:30-10:15 Properties of oxygen and oxygen-related defects in silicon determined from stress-induced alignment studies, G. D. Watkins
Sherman Fairchild Laboratory, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, USA
10:15-10:30Discussion
10:30-11:00Coffee
11:00-11:45 The initial stages of oxygen aggregation in silicon: hydrogen, dimers and self-interstitials, R. C. Newman,
IRC Semiconductor Materials, Imperial College, London
11:45-12:00Discussion
12:00-12:45 Infrared studies of early stages of oxygen clustering in silicon, J. L. Linström, T. Hallberg
Department of Physics and Measurement, Linköping University, Sweden
12:45-13:00Discussion
13:00-14:00Lunch: Engineering Building, Rms 101-103
14:00-14:45 Magnetic resonance investigations of thermal donors in silicon, C. A. J. Ammerlaan
Van der Waals-Zeeman Laboratorium, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
14:45-15:00Discussion
15:00-15:45 Magnetic Resonance on Heat Treatment Centres in Silicon, M. Spaeth
Fachbereich Physik,Universität Paderborn, Germany
15:45-16:00Discussion
16:00-16:30Tea
16:30-17:15 Effect of hydrogen on oxygen-related defect reactions in silicon at elevated temperatures, V. P. Markevich, L. I. Murin
Institute of Solid-State Physics and Semiconductors, Academy of Sciences of the Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
17:15-17:30Discussion
17:30-18:15 Passivation of thermal donors, J. Weber
Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany
18:15-18:30Discussion
19:30-20:30Dinner: Lopes Hall
20:30- Poster Session and Bar

Wednesday March 27

7:30-8:30Breakfast: Lopes Hall
9:00-9:45Theoretical studies of vacancy-oxygen defects and oxygen diffusion,
C. P. Ewels, R. Jones, Department of Physics, Exeter, UK
S. Öberg, Department of Mathematics, University of Luleå, Sweden
9:45-10:00Discussion
10:00-10:45The role of trivalent oxygen in electrically active complexes, P. Deák
Physical Institute of the Technical University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
10:45-11:00Discussion
11:00-11:30Coffee
11:30-12:15Hydrogen oxygen interactions in silicon, S. Estreicher
Physics Department, Texas-Tech, USA, Y. K. Park, Physics Department, University of California
12:15-12:30Discussion
12:30-14:00Lunch: Engineering Building, Rms 101-103
14:00-14:45Oxygen Diffusion in Si -- a very complex simple jump, M. Ramamoorthy and S. T. Pantelides
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
14:45-15:00Discussion
15:00-15:45Interstitial oxygen, vacancies-oxygen, Si-interstitial-oxygen defects, J. Chadi
NEC, Princeton, USA
15:45-16:00Discussion
16:00-16:30Tea
16:30-17:15Generation of thermal donors, nitrogen-oxygen complexes and hydrogen-oxygen complexes in Si, M. Suezawa
Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
17:15-17:30Discussion
17:30-18:15The electronic structure of the oxygen donor in Si from piezospectroscopy, M. Stavola
Sherman Fairchild Laboratory, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, USA
18:15-18:30Discussion
19:30-20:30Dinner: Lopes Hall
20:30- Poster Session and Bar

Thursday March 28

9:00-9:45Low temperature diffusion and agglomeration processes of oxygen in silicon, U. Gösele
Max Planck Inst. of Microstructural Physics, Halle, Germany
9:45-10:00Discussion
10:00-10:45Relation between grown-in defects and oxygen precipitates in Czochralski silicon, K. Sumino
Nippon Steel Co., Japan
10:45-11:00Discussion
11:00-11:30Coffee
11:30-12:15Precipitation kinetics of oxygen and transition metals, E. R. Weber
University of California, Berkeley, USA
12:15-12:30Discussion
12:30-14:00Lunch: Engineering Building, Rms 101-103
14:00-17:45Conference Trips
19:30-20:00Reception for Banquet
20:00-Conference Banquet: Reed Hall
Bar until midnight

Friday March 29

9:00-9:45 Various configurations of isolated oxygen in semiconductors, B. Pajot
Groupe de Physique des Solides, Université Denis Diderot, Paris, France
9:45-10:00Discussion
10:00-10:45Oxygen related luminescence centres created in Czochralski silicon, E. C. Lightowlers, G. Davies
King's College, London
10:45-11:00Discussion
11:00-11:30Coffee
11:30-12:00Summary and Conclusion
12:00 Lunch: Engineering Building, Rms 101-103

Ferry participants to station.


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