Admittance spectroscopy of dopants implanted in silicon and impurity state-induced AC magnetoresistance effect

A silicon structure doped with Ga using ion implantation has been investigated by admittance spectroscopy. It has been established that the presence of the Ga impurity, along with the B one, in the silicon structure leads to the appearance of the second peak in the temperature dependence of the real part of the impedance (admittance). Moreover, switching-on a magnetic field parallel to the sample plane shifts the singularities in the temperature curve to the high-temperature region. This results in the manifestation of both the positive and negative magnetoresistance effect upon temperature and magnetic field variation. It has been found by the standard admittance spectroscopy analysis of the impedance data that the energy structure of the investigated sample includes two interfacial energy levels E S1 (0) = 42 meV and E S2 (0) = 69.4 meV. As expected, these energies are consistent with the energies of B and Ga dopants. In a magnetic field, these levels increase by 3 meV for B and 2 meV for Ga, which induces the magnetoresistance effect. It has been demonstrated that the interfacial state-induced magnetoresistance effect can be tuned by ion implantation and dopant selection.