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Local equilibrium phase diagrams: SiC deposition in a hot wall LPCVD reactor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2011

Chien C. Chiu ,
Seshu B. Desu ,
Zhi J. Chen  and
Ching Yi Tsai
Chien C. Chiu
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univers ity, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061–0237
Seshu B. Desu*
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univers ity, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061–0237
Zhi J. Chen
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univers ity, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061–0237
Ching Yi Tsai
Affiliation:
Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061–0219
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Abstract

Traditional CVD phase diagrams, which neglect the depletion effects in a hot wall reactor and assume the gaseous species concentrations at the substrate are the same as input concentrations, are at best valid for a cold wall reactor. Due to the constant change of gaseous species concentration along the length of the reactor, traditional CVD phase diagrams do not accurately predict the phases in the deposit on the substrate in a hot wall CVD system. In this paper, a new approach to calculate the local equilibrium CVD phase diagrams at the substrate is presented by coupling the depletion effects in a hot wall reactor to the equilibrium thermodynamic computer codes solgasmix-pv. The deposition of SiC using the gas system of methyltrichlorosilane (MTS)-hydrogen (H2) under low pressure was chosen for this study. Differences between the new CVD phase diagrams and the traditional phase diagrams for this gas system are discussed. The calculated CVD phase diagrams are also compared with the experimental data both from our own experiment and from the literature. The local equilibrium phase diagrams predicted the deposition of a single phase of SiC much better than those without the consideration of the depletion effects. The experimental regions for depositing single phase SiC are larger than the calculated local phase diagrams. This is attributed to the higher linear velocity of the gas flux under low pressure and the polarity of the Si carrying intermediate species.

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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 9 , Issue 8 , August 1994 , pp. 2066 - 2071
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1994

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