RBS/Chainneling and Ten Analysis of Heteroepitaxial Ge Films on GaAs Crown by Remote Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition

1987 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.R. Parikh ◽  
F V Hattangady ◽  
J.B. Posthill ◽  
M.L. King ◽  
R.A. Rudder ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTWe have deposited thin Ge films on GaAs(111) crystals over a temperature range of 250-400° C by Remote Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (RPECVD). Rutherford Backscattering (RBS)/channelinf analysis of these heteroepitaxial films were carried out using 2.07 MeV He ions channeled along the <111> axis. RBS/channeling analysis showed that the best Ce films were grown at a substrate temperature of 300° C. The minimum yield for <111> channeling on films deposited at 300° C was 0.08, slightly greater than that of the GaAs crystal. Films grown at temperatures below 300° C showed poor epitaxy. No channeling was observed for the film grown at 250° C. Films grown at substrate temperatures above 350° C showed high dechanneling near the interface and poor epitaxy indicating films are highly defective. The RBS/channeling results are correlated with microstructural characterization using transmission electron microscopy of these films.

1989 ◽  
Vol 165 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Anthony ◽  
T. Hsu ◽  
L. Breaux ◽  
S. Banerjee ◽  
A. Tasch

AbstractIn this paper the reaction kinetics of Remote Plasma-enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (RPCVD) are investigated. Growth rate characterization has been performed for substrate temperatures of 220 – 400°C, r-f powers from 4 – 8 W, and silane flow rates of 10 – 30 sccm. Growth rate has been found to increase exponentially with r-f power, which is, as yet, unexplained. An approximate square root dependence of growth rate on silane partial pressure agrees with the theory of Claasen et. Al for Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) of silicon from silane with an inert carrier gas. From an Arrhenius plot of the temperature dependence of growth rate, we note a change of slope at ∼300°C which we have attributed to the behavior of hydrogen at the silicon surface.


1990 ◽  
Vol 181 ◽  
Author(s):  
David B. Beach ◽  
William F. Kane ◽  
Francoise K. Legoues ◽  
Christopher J. Knors

ABSTRACTHigh purity copper has been deposited from trialkyl phosphine complexes of cyclopentadienyl and methylcyclopentadienyl copper(I) by thermal chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Films as thick as 4.4 μm have been deposited at growth rates of up to 2000 Å/min with resistivites typically 2.0 μΩ cm, just slightly higher than bulk copper. Depositions were carried out at substrate temperatures between 150 and 220 °C on a variety of substrates including Si, SiO2, polyimide, and Cr/Cu. At low substrate temperatures, copper film growth appears to show some selectivity for transition metal surfaces. An activation energy of 18 kcal/mole has been measured for film growth on Cu seeded substrates. CVD copper films have been characterized by Auger spectroscopy which showed that carbon and oxygen levels are below the limits of detection. Transmission electron microscopy revealed that the copper grain size was ∼0.6μm and the grain boundaries are free of precipitates. Films show good conformality.


Author(s):  
K. Doong ◽  
J.-M. Fu ◽  
Y.-C. Huang

Abstract The specimen preparation technique using focused ion beam (FIB) to generate cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy (XTEM) samples of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of Tungsten-plug (W-plug) and Tungsten Silicides (WSix) was studied. Using the combination method including two axes tilting[l], gas enhanced focused ion beam milling[2] and sacrificial metal coating on both sides of electron transmission membrane[3], it was possible to prepare a sample with minimal thickness (less than 1000 A) to get high spatial resolution in TEM observation. Based on this novel thinning technique, some applications such as XTEM observation of W-plug with different aspect ratio (I - 6), and the grain structure of CVD W-plug and CVD WSix were done. Also the problems and artifacts of XTEM sample preparation of high Z-factor material such as CVD W-plug and CVD WSix were given and the ways to avoid or minimize them were suggested.


2007 ◽  
Vol 990 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hideaki Zama ◽  
Yuuji Nishimura ◽  
Michiyo Yago ◽  
Mikio Watanabe

ABSTRACTChemical vapor deposition (CVD) of copper using both a novel Cu(II) β-diketonate source and hydrogen reduction process was studied to fill contact vias with the smallest diameter in the 32nm and more advanced generation chip. Pure Cu films were grown under the condition with the product of hydrogen partial pressure and H2/Cu source molar ratio being over 1,000,000. We succeeded in filling the 40-nm-diameter contact vias by optimizing the growth condition of the Cu-CVD in both substrate temperatures and reaction pressures.


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