Rapid thermal annealing of NTD Si

Neutron transmutation doped silicon (NTD Si) wafers were annealed in a commercial rapid thermal processor (AET RX Series). As a comparison, the wafers were also annealed in a conventional electric furnace. Successful rapid thermal annealing was demonstrated by the facts that no deep level impurities were detected by deep level transient spectrometry (DLTS), and the wafers annealed with two methods had identical final resistivities.