Systematic study of methanol addition to enhance the film development of APCVD tin oxide

2011 ◽  
Vol 1323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joop van Deelen ◽  
Ioanna Volintiru ◽  
Paul Poodt
Keyword(s):  
Tin Oxide ◽  
Vapor Deposition ◽  
High Mobility ◽  
Chemical Vapor ◽  
Deposition Process ◽  
High Carrier Concentration ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
Stagnant Point ◽  
High Carrier ◽  
Film Development

ABSTRACTUndoped tin oxide (SnO2) thin films have been deposited in a stagnant point flow chemical vapor deposition reactor. By adding methanol during the deposition process ten times more conductive SnO2 films are obtained, with remarkably high mobility values of up to 55 cm2/Vs. The investigations on the morphological and structural properties indicate that the main effect of methanol is the densification of the SnO2 films, which probably causes the improvement in the electrical properties. In all conditions the nucleation and coalescence phases take place very early in the growth. The films are already very conductive at a thickness below 10 nm, which is very beneficial to applications that have strict requirements in terms of film transparency. This high conductivity was attributed to a high carrier concentration, obtained without intentional doping.

Coherent island formation of Cu2O films grown by chemical vapor deposition on MgO(110)

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. 2408-2414 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. R. Markworth ◽  
X. Liu ◽  
J. Y. Dai ◽  
W. Fan ◽  
T. J. Marks ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Vapor Deposition ◽  
Vapor Deposition ◽  
Strain Relaxation ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
High Mobility ◽  
Chemical Vapor ◽  
Deposition Process ◽  
Growth Conditions ◽  
Island Formation ◽  
Transmission Electron

Cuprous oxide (Cu2O) films have been grown on single-crystal MgO(110) substrates by a chemical vapor deposition process in the temperature range 690–790 °C. X-ray diffraction measurements show that phase-pure, highly oriented Cu2O films form at these temperatures. The Cu2O films are observed to grow by an island-formation mechanism on this substrate. Films grown at 690 °C uniformly coat the substrate except for micropores between grains. However, at a growth temperature of 790 °C, an isolated, three-dimensional island morphology develops. Using a transmission electron microscopy and atomic force microscope, both dome- and hut-shaped islands are observed and are shown to be coherent and epitaxial. The isolated, coherent islands form under high mobility growth conditions where geometric strain relaxation occurs before misfit dislocation can be introduced. This rare observation for oxides is attributed to the relatively weak bonding of Cu2O, which also has a relatively low melting temperature.

scholarly journals Self-Catalytic Growth of Tin Oxide Nanowires by Chemical Vapor Deposition Process

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bongani S. Thabethe ◽  
Gerald F. Malgas ◽  
David E. Motaung ◽  
Thomas Malwela ◽  
Christopher J. Arendse
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Chemical Vapor Deposition ◽  
Tin Oxide ◽  
Vapor Deposition ◽  
Chemical Vapor ◽  
Deposition Process ◽  
Liquid Droplets ◽  
Visible Absorption ◽  
Vls Growth ◽  
Uv Visible

We report on the synthesis of tin oxide (SnO2) nanowires by a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process. Commercially bought SnO nanopowders were vaporized at 1050°C for 30 minutes with argon gas continuously passing through the system. The as-synthesized products were characterized using UV-visible absorption spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM). The band gap of the nanowires determined from UV-visible absorption was around 3.7 eV. The SEM micrographs revealed “wool-like” structure which contains nanoribbons and nanowires with liquid droplets at the tips. Nanowires typically have diameter in the range of 50–200 nm and length 10–100 μm. These nanowires followed the vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) growth mechanism.

Reaction couples of ceramic thin films prepared by CVD

1988 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 798-799
Author(s):  
D.W. Susnitzky ◽  
S.R. Summerfelt ◽  
C.B. Carter
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Vapor Deposition ◽  
Chemical Vapor ◽  
Deposition Process ◽  
Solid State Reactions ◽  
Spatial Distributions ◽  
Diffusion Couples ◽  
Kinetics Studies ◽  
Ceramic Thin Films ◽  
Initial Stage

Solid-state reactions have traditionally been studied in the form of diffusion couples. This ‘bulk’ approach has been modified, for the specific case of the reaction between NiO and Al2O3, by growing NiAl2O4 (spinel) from electron-transparent Al2O3 TEM foils which had been exposed to NiO vapor at 1415°C. This latter ‘thin-film’ approach has been used to characterize the initial stage of spinel formation and to produce clean phase boundaries since further TEM preparation is not required after the reaction is completed. The present study demonstrates that chemical-vapor deposition (CVD) can be used to deposit NiO particles, with controlled size and spatial distributions, onto Al2O3 TEM specimens. Chemical reactions do not occur during the deposition process, since CVD is a relatively low-temperature technique, and thus the NiO-Al2O3 interface can be characterized. Moreover, a series of annealing treatments can be performed on the same sample which allows both Ni0-NiAl2O4 and NiAl2O4-Al2O3 interfaces to be characterized and which therefore makes this technique amenable to kinetics studies of thin-film reactions.

CMOS-Compatible Synthesis of Large-Area, High-Mobility Graphene by Chemical Vapor Deposition of Acetylene on Cobalt Thin Films

ACS Nano ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 7198-7204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael E. Ramón ◽  
Aparna Gupta ◽  
Chris Corbet ◽  
Domingo A. Ferrer ◽  
Hema C. P. Movva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thin Films ◽  
Chemical Vapor Deposition ◽  
Vapor Deposition ◽  
High Mobility ◽  
Chemical Vapor ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Cobalt Thin Films ◽  
Cmos Compatible
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