The velocity v of dislocation half-loops introduced into swirl-free floating-zone grown undoped silicon has been measured at 420°C in the resolved shear stress range 30 <τ<300 MPa. Clearly impurity atoms interact with dislocations in this material. Using the starting value of v we found the two types of 60° dislocations, which are distinguished by the sequence of their partials, to have different velocities. Furtheron the velocity depends not only on τ, but also on the elastic strain of the lattice. In the second part the papers review EPR spectroscopy of plastically deformed silicon and collects new results on the activity of dislocations in this material as trapping / recombination centers (decay of photo-EPR, photoluminescence, EBIC microscopy and photoplastic effect). (Read more)

In silicon an EPR signal is produced by plastic deformation. The annealing behavior of this signal has been investigated, and the dislocation density and structure has been studied by the etch pit technique and by electron microscopy. The EPR-signal anneals in one stage with an activation energy of... (Read more)

Bei 800°C verformte Silizium-Kristalle zeigen ein Elektronenspinresonanz-Signal, dessen Intensität mit der Versetzungsdichte zunimmt. Wir vermuten, daβ dieses Signal von ungepaarten Elektronen im Kern von Versetzungen stammt. Durch die Verformung wird die Bildung von Atomgruppen in... (Read more)