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  1. Article ; Online: Single-Atom Control of Arsenic Incorporation in Silicon for High-Yield Artificial Lattice Fabrication.

    Stock, Taylor J Z / Warschkow, Oliver / Constantinou, Procopios C / Bowler, David R / Schofield, Steven R / Curson, Neil J

    Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)

    2024  , Page(s) e2312282

    Abstract: Artificial lattices constructed from individual dopant atoms within a semiconductor crystal hold promise to provide novel materials with tailored electronic, magnetic, and optical properties. These custom-engineered lattices are anticipated to enable new, ...

    Abstract Artificial lattices constructed from individual dopant atoms within a semiconductor crystal hold promise to provide novel materials with tailored electronic, magnetic, and optical properties. These custom-engineered lattices are anticipated to enable new, fundamental discoveries in condensed matter physics and lead to the creation of new semiconductor technologies including analog quantum simulators and universal solid-state quantum computers. This work reports precise and repeatable, substitutional incorporation of single arsenic atoms into a silicon lattice. A combination of scanning tunneling microscopy hydrogen resist lithography and a detailed statistical exploration of the chemistry of arsine on the hydrogen-terminated silicon (001) surface are employed to show that single arsenic dopants can be deterministically placed within four silicon lattice sites and incorporated with 97 ± 2% yield. These findings bring closer to the ultimate frontier in semiconductor technology: the deterministic assembly of atomically precise dopant and qubit arrays at arbitrarily large scales.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-21
    Publishing country Germany
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1474949-X
    ISSN 1521-4095 ; 0935-9648
    ISSN (online) 1521-4095
    ISSN 0935-9648
    DOI 10.1002/adma.202312282
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  2. Book ; Online: Spatially resolved dielectric loss at the Si/SiO$_2$ interface

    Cowie, Megan / Stock, Taylor J. Z. / Constantinou, Procopios C. / Curson, Neil / Grütter, Peter

    2023  

    Abstract: The Si/SiO$_2$ interface is populated by isolated trap states which modify its electronic properties. These traps are of critical interest for the development of semiconductor-based quantum sensors and computers, as well as nanoelectronic devices. Here, ... ...

    Abstract The Si/SiO$_2$ interface is populated by isolated trap states which modify its electronic properties. These traps are of critical interest for the development of semiconductor-based quantum sensors and computers, as well as nanoelectronic devices. Here, we study the electric susceptibility of the Si/SiO$_2$ interface with nm spatial resolution using frequency-modulated atomic force microscopy to measure a patterned dopant delta-layer buried 2 nm beneath the silicon native oxide interface. We show that surface charge organization timescales, which range from 1-150 ns, increase significantly around interfacial states. We conclude that dielectric loss under time-varying gate biases at MHz and sub-MHz frequencies in metal-insulator-semiconductor capacitor device architectures is highly spatially heterogeneous over nm length scales.
    Keywords Condensed Matter - Materials Science
    Publishing date 2023-06-23
    Publishing country us
    Document type Book ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  3. Book ; Online: Single-Atom Control of Arsenic Incorporation in Silicon for High-Yield Artificial Lattice Fabrication

    Stock, Taylor J. Z. / Warschkow, Oliver / Constantinou, Procopios C. / Bowler, David R. / Schofield, Steven R. / Curson, Neil J.

    2023  

    Abstract: Artificial lattices constructed from individual dopant atoms within a semiconductor crystal hold promise to provide novel materials with tailored electronic, magnetic, and optical properties. These custom engineered lattices are anticipated to enable new, ...

    Abstract Artificial lattices constructed from individual dopant atoms within a semiconductor crystal hold promise to provide novel materials with tailored electronic, magnetic, and optical properties. These custom engineered lattices are anticipated to enable new, fundamental discoveries in condensed matter physics and lead to the creation of new semiconductor technologies including analog quantum simulators and universal solid-state quantum computers. In this work, we report precise and repeatable, substitutional incorporation of single arsenic atoms into a silicon lattice. We employ a combination of scanning tunnelling microscopy hydrogen resist lithography and a detailed statistical exploration of the chemistry of arsine on the hydrogen terminated silicon (001) surface, to show that single arsenic dopants can be deterministically placed within four silicon lattice sites and incorporated with 97$\pm$2% yield. These findings bring us closer to the ultimate frontier in semiconductor technology: the deterministic assembly of atomically precise dopant and qubit arrays at arbitrarily large scales.
    Keywords Condensed Matter - Materials Science
    Subject code 530
    Publishing date 2023-11-09
    Publishing country us
    Document type Book ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  4. Article ; Online: Resistless EUV lithography: Photon-induced oxide patterning on silicon.

    Tseng, Li-Ting / Karadan, Prajith / Kazazis, Dimitrios / Constantinou, Procopios C / Stock, Taylor J Z / Curson, Neil J / Schofield, Steven R / Muntwiler, Matthias / Aeppli, Gabriel / Ekinci, Yasin

    Science advances

    2023  Volume 9, Issue 16, Page(s) eadf5997

    Abstract: In this work, we show the feasibility of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) patterning on an HF-treated silicon (100) surface in the absence of a photoresist. EUV lithography is the leading lithography technique in semiconductor manufacturing due to its high ... ...

    Abstract In this work, we show the feasibility of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) patterning on an HF-treated silicon (100) surface in the absence of a photoresist. EUV lithography is the leading lithography technique in semiconductor manufacturing due to its high resolution and throughput, but future progress in resolution can be hampered because of the inherent limitations of the resists. We show that EUV photons can induce surface reactions on a partially hydrogen-terminated silicon surface and assist the growth of an oxide layer, which serves as an etch mask. This mechanism is different from the hydrogen desorption in scanning tunneling microscopy-based lithography. We achieve silicon dioxide/silicon gratings with 75-nanometer half-pitch and 31-nanometer height, demonstrating the efficacy of the method and the feasibility of patterning with EUV lithography without the use of a photoresist. Further development of the resistless EUV lithography method can be a viable approach to nanometer-scale lithography by overcoming the inherent resolution and roughness limitations of photoresist materials.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-04-19
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2810933-8
    ISSN 2375-2548 ; 2375-2548
    ISSN (online) 2375-2548
    ISSN 2375-2548
    DOI 10.1126/sciadv.adf5997
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  5. Book ; Online: Resistless EUV lithography

    Tseng, Li-Ting / Karadan, Prajith / Kazazis, Dimitrios / Constantinou, Procopios C. / Stock, Taylor J. Z. / Curson, Neil J. / Schofield, Steven R. / Muntwiler, Matthias / Aeppli, Gabriel / Ekinci, Yasin

    photon-induced oxide patterning on silicon

    2023  

    Abstract: In this work, we show the feasibility of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) patterning on an HF-treated Si(100) surface in the absence of a photoresist. EUV lithography is the leading lithography technique in semiconductor manufacturing due to its high resolution ...

    Abstract In this work, we show the feasibility of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) patterning on an HF-treated Si(100) surface in the absence of a photoresist. EUV lithography is the leading lithography technique in semiconductor manufacturing due to its high resolution and throughput, but future progress in resolution can be hampered because of the inherent limitations of the resists. We show that EUV photons can induce surface reactions on a partially H-terminated Si surface and assist the growth of an oxide layer, which serves as an etch mask. This mechanism is different from the H-desorption in scanning tunneling microscopy-based lithography. We achieve SiO2/Si gratings with 75 nm half-pitch and 31 nm height, demonstrating the efficacy of the method and the feasibility of patterning with EUV lithography without the use of a photoresist. Further development of the resistless EUV lithography method can be a viable approach to nm-scale lithography by overcoming the inherent resolution and roughness limitations of photoresist materials.

    Comment: 15 pages, 7 figures
    Keywords Physics - Applied Physics ; Condensed Matter - Materials Science
    Subject code 600
    Publishing date 2023-10-02
    Publishing country us
    Document type Book ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  6. Book ; Online: Non-destructive X-ray imaging of patterned delta-layer devices in silicon

    D'Anna, Nicolò / Sanchez, Dario Ferreira / Matmon, Guy / Bragg, Jamie / Constantinou, Procopios C. / Stock, Taylor J. Z. / Fearn, Sarah / Schofield, Steven R. / Curson, Neil J. / Bartkowiak, Marek / Soh, Y. / Grolimund, Daniel / Gerber, Simon / Aeppli, Gabriel

    2022  

    Abstract: The progress of miniaturisation in integrated electronics has led to atomic and nanometre-sized dopant devices in silicon. Such structures can be fabricated routinely by hydrogen resist lithography, using various dopants such as phosphorous and arsenic. ... ...

    Abstract The progress of miniaturisation in integrated electronics has led to atomic and nanometre-sized dopant devices in silicon. Such structures can be fabricated routinely by hydrogen resist lithography, using various dopants such as phosphorous and arsenic. However, the ability to non-destructively obtain atomic-species-specific images of the final structure, which would be an indispensable tool for building more complex nano-scale devices, such as quantum co-processors, remains an unresolved challenge. Here we exploit X-ray fluorescence to create an element-specific image of As dopants in silicon, with dopant densities in absolute units and a resolution limited by the beam focal size (here $\sim1~\mu$m), without affecting the device's low temperature electronic properties. The As densities provided by the X-ray data are compared to those derived from Hall effect measurements as well as the standard non-repeatable, scanning tunnelling microscopy and secondary ion mass spectroscopy, techniques. Before and after the X-ray experiments, we also measured the magneto-conductance, dominated by weak localisation, a quantum interference effect extremely sensitive to sample dimensions and disorder. Notwithstanding the $1.5\times10^{10}$ Sv ($1.5\times10^{16}$ Rad/cm$^{-2}$) exposure of the device to X-rays, all transport data were unchanged to within experimental errors, corresponding to upper bounds of 0.2 Angstroms for the radiation-induced motion of the typical As atom and 3$\%$ for the loss of activated, carrier-contributing dopants. With next generation synchrotron radiation sources and more advanced optics, we foresee that it will be possible to obtain X-ray images of single dopant atoms within resolved radii of 5 nm.
    Keywords Quantum Physics ; Condensed Matter - Materials Science ; Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
    Subject code 530
    Publishing date 2022-08-19
    Publishing country us
    Document type Book ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  7. Article ; Online: Atomic-Scale Patterning of Arsenic in Silicon by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy.

    Stock, Taylor J Z / Warschkow, Oliver / Constantinou, Procopios C / Li, Juerong / Fearn, Sarah / Crane, Eleanor / Hofmann, Emily V S / Kölker, Alexander / McKenzie, David R / Schofield, Steven R / Curson, Neil J

    ACS nano

    2020  Volume 14, Issue 3, Page(s) 3316–3327

    Abstract: Over the past two decades, prototype devices for future classical and quantum computing technologies have been fabricated by using scanning tunneling microscopy and hydrogen resist lithography to position phosphorus atoms in silicon with atomic-scale ... ...

    Abstract Over the past two decades, prototype devices for future classical and quantum computing technologies have been fabricated by using scanning tunneling microscopy and hydrogen resist lithography to position phosphorus atoms in silicon with atomic-scale precision. Despite these successes, phosphine remains the only donor precursor molecule to have been demonstrated as compatible with the hydrogen resist lithography technique. The potential benefits of atomic-scale placement of alternative dopant species have, until now, remained unexplored. In this work, we demonstrate the successful fabrication of atomic-scale structures of arsenic-in-silicon. Using a scanning tunneling microscope tip, we pattern a monolayer hydrogen mask to selectively place arsenic atoms on the Si(001) surface using arsine as the precursor molecule. We fully elucidate the surface chemistry and reaction pathways of arsine on Si(001), revealing significant differences to phosphine. We explain how these differences result in enhanced surface immobilization and in-plane confinement of arsenic compared to phosphorus, and a dose-rate independent arsenic saturation density of 0.24 ± 0.04 monolayers. We demonstrate the successful encapsulation of arsenic delta-layers using silicon molecular beam epitaxy, and find electrical characteristics that are competitive with equivalent structures fabricated with phosphorus. Arsenic delta-layers are also found to offer confinement as good as similarly prepared phosphorus layers, while still retaining >80% carrier activation and sheet resistances of <2 kΩ/square. These excellent characteristics of arsenic represent opportunities to enhance existing capabilities of atomic-scale fabrication of dopant structures in silicon, and may be important for three-dimensional devices, where vertical control of the position of device components is critical.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-03-12
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 1936-086X
    ISSN (online) 1936-086X
    DOI 10.1021/acsnano.9b08943
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