Low-Temperature Plasma-Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition of SiO 2 Using Carbon Dioxide
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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
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2019-02-12
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Nanoscale Research Letters, Volume 14
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In this work, we report the successful growth of high-quality SiO2 films by low-temperature plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition using an oxidant which is compatible with moisture/oxygen sensitive materials. The SiO2 films were grown at 90 degrees C using CO2 and Bis(tertiary-butylamino)silane as process precursors. Growth, chemical composition, density, optical properties, and residual stress of SiO2 films were investigated. SiO2 films having a saturated growth-per-cycle of similar to 1.15 angstrom/cycle showed a density of similar to 2.1g/cm(3), a refractive index of similar to 1.46 at a wavelength of 632nm, and a low tensile residual stress of similar to 30MPa. Furthermore, the films showed low impurity levels with bulk concentrations of similar to 2.4 and similar to 0.17at. % for hydrogen and nitrogen, respectively, whereas the carbon content was found to be below the measurement limit of time-of-flight elastic recoil detection analysis. These results demonstrate that CO2 is a promising oxidizing precursor for moisture/oxygen sensitive materials related plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition processes.Description
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ALD, Carbon dioxide, Oxidation, Plasma, Radicals, Silicon dioxide
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Zhu, Z, Sippola, P, Ylivaara, O M E, Modanese, C, Di Sabatino, M, Mizohata, K, Merdes, S, Lipsanen, H & Savin, H 2019, ' Low-Temperature Plasma-Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition of SiO 2 Using Carbon Dioxide ', Nanoscale Research Letters, vol. 14, 55 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s11671-019-2889-y