Thin film interaction between titanium and polycrystalline silicon
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 51 (1) , 342-349
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.327378
Abstract
The low resistivity of the titanium disilicide makes this material attractive for gate and interconnect metallizations. TiSi2 has been formed by reacting Ti films with polycrystalline and monocrystalline silicon in the temperature range 400–1100 °C. The interaction is investigated by use of sheet resistance, x‐ray diffraction, and stress measurements. It has been found that Ti and Si react very rapidly to form both TiSi and TiSi2 at temperatures ? 700 °C and only TiSi2 at temperatures ≳ 700 °C. The TiSi2 films are associated with a very low resistivity (∼15 μΩ cm), high tensile stress [∼ (1–2) ×1010 dyn/cm2)], and a rough surface. Silicided structures are mechanically stable. It is proposed that the silicon, as the predominant diffusing species, first diffuses into titanium to completely convert titanium into TiSi and then into TiSi to form TiSi2.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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