Stresses in chemical vapor deposited epitaxial 3C-SiC membranes
- 1 February 1995
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 77 (3) , 1280-1283
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.359579
Abstract
The internal stresses in chemical-vapor-deposited 3C-SiC films were studied by a vibrating membrane technique. The differential thermal expansivity of 3C-SiC films was investigated by the change of the internal stress as a function of temperature. It was found that the internal stress of the films is dominated by thermal stresses and its magnitude depends both on doping and the film thickness. While p doping substantially increases the stress, increasing the film thickness reduces the stress of the SiC layer. The thermal expansivity of the SiC layer shows a lower value which is significantly less than that of bulk 3C-SiC and tends to approach the expansivity of the Si substrate. It is proposed that the stress dependence of the SiC films on doping and film thickness is the result of the film morphology which is heavily faulted for very thin films and more perfect as the film thickness increases.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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