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Generation aspects of the delocalized intrinsic EX defect in thermal SiO2

A K‐band electron‐spin‐resonance study of the appearance of the delocalized intrinsic EX center in dry thermal SiO2 was performed on (001) and (111) Si/SiO2. The defect is found in both structures in nearly identical spin densities, 1.2×1012 cm−2 being the maximum areal density. Variation of Si precleaning treatments showed the center’s generation to depend on the initial surface condition of the c‐Si substrate. For fixed initial surface conditions, however, systematic variation of the oxidation temperature (760–930 °C), oxidation time (a few min up to 24 h), and oxygen pressure (∼24 and ∼110 kPa), in combination with stylus profilometry, revealed the EX areal density to be solely determined by the grown oxide thickness (dox), EX being detectable from dox≊70 A onwards, with a maximum intensity at dox≊125 A. Etch back experiments showed the defects to reside in the top 45 A of the oxide layer, with the largest local volume density (∼3×1018 cm−3) occurring near the ambient/SiO2 interface. With growing oxide...