Low-temperature homoepitaxial growth on nonplanar Si substrates
- 1 November 1994
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 76 (9) , 5185-5189
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.357236
Abstract
The kinetics associated with the breakdown of epitaxy at low temperatures are studied for growth onto a number of Si surfaces, including (001), (117), (115), and (113). These surfaces are all initially generated at trench edges on a single patterned substrate. Growth on each of these surfaces at low temperatures is shown to result in a well-defined crystalline-to-amorphous transition. The epitaxial thicknesses hepi have been measured over a range of substrate temperatures below 280 °C, and activation energies characteristic of this transition were determined. In general, the breakdown in epitaxy occurs such that hepi(001)≳hepi(117)≳hepi(115)≳hepi(113). Growth at slightly higher temperatures, Tsubstrate≳300 °C, shows a different microstructure than that at lower temperatures. Epitaxial growth continues for longer times on (113) facets, as compared with (001). These results are discussed in terms of a recently proposed model explaining the breakdown of epitaxy at lower temperatures and an epitaxial temperature for Si.This publication has 39 references indexed in Scilit:
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