Optical dependence of electrically-detected magnetic resonance in lightly-doped Si:P devices
arXiv:1608.04441 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.7.064028
Abstract
Electrically-detected magnetic resonance (EDMR) provides a highly sensitive method for reading out the state of donor spins in silicon. The technique relies on a spin-dependent recombination (SDR) process involving dopant spins that are coupled to interfacial defect spins near the Si/SiO interface. To prevent ionization of the donors, the experiments are performed at cryogenic temperatures and the mobile charge carriers needed are generated via optical excitation. The influence of this optical excitation on the SDR process and the resulting EDMR signal is still not well understood. Here, we use EDMR to characterize changes to both phosphorus and defect spin readout as a function of optical excitation using: a 980 nm laser with energy just above the silicon band edge at cryogenic temperatures; a 405 nm laser to generate hot surface-carriers; and a broadband white light source. EDMR signals are observed from the phosphorus donor and two distinct defect species in all the experiments. With near-infrared excitation, we find that the EDMR signal primarily arises from donor-defect pairs, while at higher photon energies there are significant additional contributions from defect-defect pairs. The optical penetration depth into silicon is also known to be strongly wavelength dependent at cryogenic temperatures. The energy of the optical excitation is observed to strongly modulate the kinetics of the SDR process. Careful tuning of the optical photon energy could therefore be used to control both the subset of spin pairs contributing to the EDMR signal as well as the dynamics of the SDR process.
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