Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-rdxmf Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-22T22:46:20.807Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Diamond growth with locally supplied methane and acetylene

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

W.A. Yarbrough ,
K. Tankala  and
T. DebRoy
W.A. Yarbrough
Affiliation:
149 Materials Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
K. Tankala
Affiliation:
149 Materials Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
T. DebRoy
Affiliation:
149 Materials Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
Get access

Abstract

Experiments have been conducted to examine the relative importance of different gas feed geometries and molecular species in the hot filament assisted vapor phase deposition of diamond. Remote and local (relative to the substrate) gas feeds of methane and acetylene were tested and it was found that although dramatic effects on uniformity and rate of deposition can be observed using a gas feed of methane local to the substrate surface, little or no variation in growth rate or deposition uniformity was produced by feeding acetylene locally. The growth rate observed on a defined area of the substrate using a local gas feed of methane was 0.50 mgms/h versus 0.17 mgms/h for a local feed of acetylene. These results, as well as the patterns of deposition observed, suggest that the major species contributing to growth in the hot filament assisted CVD of diamond is the methyl radical. This species is readily formed in the gas phase from methane and atomic hydrogen by hydrogen abstraction. It is, however, further suggested that numerous different hydrocarbon species may be of importance, with the nature of the species contributing most to the growth dependent on the method used.

Type
Articles
Information
Journal of Materials Research , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , February 1992 , pp. 379 - 383
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1.Tsuda, M., Nakajima, M., and Oikawa, S., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 108, 5780 (1986).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2.Tsuda, M., Nakajima, M., and Oikawa, S., Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 26, L527 (1987).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
3.Matsumoto, S., Sato, Y., and Tsutsumi, M., J. Mater. Sci. 17, 3106 (1982).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
4.Frenklach, M. and Spear, K. E., J. Mater. Res. 3, 133 (1988).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
5.Huang, D., Frenklach, M., and Maroncelli, M., J. Phys. Chem. 92, 6379 (1988).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
6.Harris, S. J., Appl. Phys. Lett. 56 (23), 2298 (1990).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
7.Harris, S. J., Belton, D. N., and Blint, R. J., in New Diamond Science and Technology, edited by Messier, R. and Glass, J. (Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. ICNDST-2, Pittsburgh, PA, 1991), pp. 277–290.Google Scholar
8.Yarbrough, W. A., in New Diamond Science and Technology, edited by Messier, R. and Glass, J. (Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. ICNDST-2, Pittsburgh, PA, 1991), pp. 291–306.Google Scholar
9.Kline, L. E., Partlow, W. D., and Bies, W. E., J. Appl. Phys. 65 (1), 70 (1989).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
10.Chu, C. Judith, Bai, B. J., D'Evelyn, M. P., Hauge, R. H., and Margrave, J. L., in Diamond, Silicon Carbide and Related Wide Bandgap Semiconductors, edited by Glass, J. T., Messier, R., and Fujimori, N. (Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 162, Pittsburgh, PA, 1990), pp. 85–90.Google Scholar
11.Martin, L. R. and Hill, M. W., in Diamond and Diamond-Like Films, edited by Dismukes, J. P. (Electrochemical Society Proc. 89–12, Pennington, NJ, 1989), pp. 568–575.Google Scholar
12.DebRoy, T., Tankala, K., Yarbrough, W., and Messier, R., J. Appl. Phys. 68 (5), 2424 (1990).CrossRefGoogle Scholar