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Surface Chemistry of Fluorine-Containing Molecules Related to CVD Process on Silicon Nitride: SiF4, XeF2, and HF

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Duane A. Outka
Duane A. Outka*
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Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94551
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Abstract

The reactivity of several fluorine-containing molecules on a polycrystalline silicon nitride (Si3N4) surface is studied under ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) conditions using temperature programmed desorption (TPD) and Auger electron spectroscopy (AES). The chemistry of fluorine on Si3N4 is of interest in understanding the high temperature chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of Si3N4, which uses SiF4 as a starting material. XeF2 is reacted with a Si3N4 surface to prepare and characterize various surface SiFx (1 ≤ × ≤ 3) species. These are identified by the chemical shift induced by the fluorine atoms in the Si (LMM) Auger peak and by changes in the TPD. Of these species, SiF2 is stable to the highest temperature. SiF2 is also formed by the reaction of SiF4 with a Si3N4. Because SiF2 is so stable, its decomposition is proposed as a rate-determining step in the CVD deposition of Si3N4 from SiF4. Gaseous HF, which is a product of the CVD process, does not dissociate on Si3N4 and is therefore unlikely to cause the etch-like marks on the Si3N4 coating that are observed under certain conditions.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 250: Symposium R – Chemical Vapor Deposition of Refractory Metals and Ceramics II , 1991 , 79
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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