Abstract. 15N2+ molecular ions were implanted with 10keV (j = 10 gA/cm 2) under high vacuum conditions close to room temperature in (100) silicon (c-S0 to study the l SN depth distributions, particularly the dependence of peak concentration and dose on the ion fluence. The analysis were performed by the resonant nuclear reaction 15N(p, ~7) 12C (NRA). A maximum peak concentration of 65 at.% was measured. Thin stoichiometric silicon nitride iayers with a thickness of approx, 20nm (15 at.% nitrogen at the specimen surface) were produced by this low-energy implantation of ~ 5N 2 + ions with an ion fluence of 1.5.1017 ions/cm 2. NRA analysis of 38 keV 15N2+ and 19keV lSN+ ion implantations were performed to compare the is N depth distributions. No significant changes in the depth distributions are measured, that means, the molecular 15N 2 + ions are already disintegrated passing the very first atomic layers of the sample during implantation. Non-Rutherford RBS with 4He+ ions and 3.45 MeV was performed in order to confirm the results obtained by NRA.