Sodium passivation in HCl oxide films on Si
- 15 January 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 30 (2) , 104-106
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.89305
Abstract
Chlorine has been incorporated into SiO2 films by thermal oxidation of Si in a mixture of O2 and HCl gases. Mobile sodium ions adsorbed on the oxide surface were drifted to the Si‐SiO2 interface (0.5 MV cm−1 bias at 200 °C). Passivation, defined as the fraction of mobile sodium charge neutralized, exhibited a pronounced threshold with HCl content in the growth ambient. This was partly due to a similar variation of oxide chlorine content (measured by α‐particle backscattering). For fixed growth temperature, passivation was a monotonic function of oxide chlorine content, and was only weakly dependent on the level of sodium contamination over the range 5×1011 to 1×1013 Na/cm2.Keywords
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