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- Title
Radioactivation Analysis of Phosphorus in Iodine.
- Authors
JAMES, J. A.; RICHARDS, D. H.
- Abstract
AN important method in the preparation of pure silicon for semiconductor devices is the silicon iodide process1. In this method silicon tetraiodide is formed from the elements and purified by fractional distillation before being decomposed by passage over a heated tantalum filament. We have found by radio-activation analysis2 that the predominating N-type impurity in silicon produced by this method in our laboratory is phosphorus, and that its concentration seems to be largely independent of the phosphorus content of the 'crude' silicon. This could be explained if there was an appreciable phosphorus-level in the iodine used, as the mass ratio of silicon to iodine in the above reaction is about one to twenty. Therefore we developed the following method for estimating the phosphorus content of iodine.
- Publication
Nature, 1956, Vol 177, Issue 4522, p1230
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/1771230a0