Epitaxial relations and electrical properties of low-temperature-grown CaF2 on Si(111)

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The temperature dependences of crystalline quality, epitaxial relations, and interface properties of CaF2 on Si(111) are studied by x-ray diffraction and electrical measurements. While the CaF2 films grown at temperatures above 400 °C exhibit B-type epitaxy, the films grown at temperatures below 400 °C show A-type epitaxy. Using low substrate temperatures, we also obtained A-type CaF2 on SiGe(111) and off-orientated Si(111). In addition to the change in epitaxial relations, the interface state density is significantly reduced when the growth temperature of the CaF2 films decreases. Although flat capacitance–voltage (C–V) curves are observed from capacitors made of CaF2 films grown at 600–800 °C, suggesting a pinned interface, unpinned C–V characteristics are observed from capacitors made of either A- or B-type epitaxial CaF2/Si(111) grown at 200–500 °C, and polycrystalline-CaF2/Si(111) grown at 25–100 °C. The C–V characteristics are also dependent on the post-annealing temperature. Our results indicate that the interface state density of CaF2/Si(111) is dominated by thermal history, rather than crystalline quality or orientation, of the CaF2 film.

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