scholarly journals Gas phase chemical vapor deposition chemistry of triethylboron probed by boron–carbon thin film deposition and quantum chemical calculations

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (41) ◽  
pp. 10898-10906 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mewlude Imam ◽  
Konstantin Gaul ◽  
Andreas Stegmüller ◽  
Carina Höglund ◽  
Jens Jensen ◽  
...  

We present triethylboron (TEB) as a single-source precursor for chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of BxC thin films and study its gas phase chemistry under CVD conditions by quantum chemical calculations.

2017 ◽  
Vol 121 (47) ◽  
pp. 26465-26471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mewlude Imam ◽  
Laurent Souqui ◽  
Jan Herritsch ◽  
Andreas Stegmüller ◽  
Carina Höglund ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Rönnby ◽  
Sydney C. Buttera ◽  
Polla Rouf ◽  
Sean Barry ◽  
Lars Ojamäe ◽  
...  

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is one of the most important techniques for depositing thin films of the group 13 nitrides (13-Ns), AlN, GaN, InN and their alloys, for electronic device applications. The standard CVD chemistry for 13-Ns use ammonia as the nitrogen precursor, however, this gives an inefficient CVD chemistry forcing N/13 ratios of 100/1 or more. Here we investigate the hypothesis that replacing the N-H bonds in ammonia with weaker N-C bonds in methylamines will permit better CVD chemistry, allowing lower CVD temperatures and an improved N/13 ratio. Quantum chemical computations shows that while the methylamines have a more reactive gas phase chemistry, ammonia has a more reactive surface chemistry. CVD experiments using methylamines failed to deposit a continuous film, instead micrometer sized gallium droplets were deposited. This study shows that the nitrogen surface chemistry is most likely more important to consider than the gas phase chemistry when searching for better nitrogen precursors for 13-N CVD.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Rönnby ◽  
Sydney C. Buttera ◽  
Polla Rouf ◽  
Sean Barry ◽  
Lars Ojamäe ◽  
...  

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is one of the most important techniques for depositing thin films of the group 13 nitrides (13-Ns), AlN, GaN, InN and their alloys, for electronic device applications. The standard CVD chemistry for 13-Ns use ammonia as the nitrogen precursor, however, this gives an inefficient CVD chemistry forcing N/13 ratios of 100/1 or more. Here we investigate the hypothesis that replacing the N-H bonds in ammonia with weaker N-C bonds in methylamines will permit better CVD chemistry, allowing lower CVD temperatures and an improved N/13 ratio. Quantum chemical computations shows that while the methylamines have a more reactive gas phase chemistry, ammonia has a more reactive surface chemistry. CVD experiments using methylamines failed to deposit a continuous film, instead micrometer sized gallium droplets were deposited. This study shows that the nitrogen surface chemistry is most likely more important to consider than the gas phase chemistry when searching for better nitrogen precursors for 13-N CVD.


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