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Growth of SiC Thin Films on (100) and (111) Silicon by Pulsed Laser Deposition Combined with a Vacuum Annealing Process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

Jipo Huang ,
Lianwei Wang ,
Jun Wen ,
Yuxia Wang ,
Chenglu Lin ,
Carl-Mikael Zetterling  and
Mikael Ostling
Jipo Huang
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Metallurgy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, P. R.. China
Lianwei Wang
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Metallurgy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, P. R.. China
Jun Wen
Affiliation:
Department of Material Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, P. R.. China
Yuxia Wang
Affiliation:
Department of Material Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, P. R.. China
Chenglu Lin
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Metallurgy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, P. R.. China
Carl-Mikael Zetterling
Affiliation:
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Department of Electronics, Electrum 229, SE-16440, Kista-Stockholm, Sweden
Mikael Ostling
Affiliation:
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Department of Electronics, Electrum 229, SE-16440, Kista-Stockholm, Sweden
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Abstract

Crystalline 3C-SiC thin films were successfully grown on (100) and (111) Si substrates by using ArF pulsed laser ablation from a SiC ceramic target combined with a vacuum annealing process. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) were employed to study the effect of annealing on the structure of thin films deposited at 800°C. It was demonstrated that vacuum annealing could transform the amorphous SiC films into crystalline phase and that the crystallinity was strongly dependent on the annealing temperature. For the samples deposited on (100) and (111) Si, the optimum annealing temperatures were 980 and 920°C, respectively. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) micrographs exhibited different characteristic microstructure for the (100) and (111) Si cases, similar to that observed for the carbonization layer initially formed in chemical vapor deposition of SiC films on Si. This also showed the presence of the epitaxial relationship of 3C-SiC[100]//Si[100] and 3C-SiC[111]//Si[111] in the direction of growth.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 572: Symposium Y – Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors for High-Power, High Frequency… , 1999 , 207
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1999

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