An observation of 650 °C deformation of Si surface under ultra high vacuum
- 15 September 1990
- journal article
- letter
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 68 (6) , 3038-3040
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.346395
Abstract
Significant deformation of a grooved Si surface is discovered during low temperature processing (650–900 °C) in a ultra high vacuum. The lowest temperature at which deformation results is determined to be 650 °C for a (111)Si substrate. In addition, clear facets are formed after high temperature processing (850–900 °C). These new findings are tentatively considered to originate from the surface migration of Si atoms on atomically clean surfaces.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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