Selective Epitaxial Growth Of Si And Relaxed Ge By UHV-CVD In Si(001) Windows

Autor: Fossard, Frederic, Halbwax, Mathieu, Yam, Vy, Lam, Huu, Mathet, Veronique, Cammilleri, Davide, Debarre, Dominique, Boulmer, Jacques, Bouchier, Daniel
Zdroj: ECS Transactions; October 2006, Vol. 3 Issue: 7 p593-598, 6p
Abstrakt: Relaxed germanium was deposited following a low temperature-high temperature procedure by ultrahigh vacuum chemical vapor deposition in Si trenches opened through a SiO2 mask. The resulting growth is selective, the germanium fills the Si trenches and evolves towards a roof-shaped morphology limited by (001), {113} and {111} facets. The evolution in height of the Ge structure depends on the trench width, and can be understood by considering a growth rate in the <113> direction equal to 22% of that measured along the <001> axis. At last, a surprisingly strong Ge diffusion under the SiO2 mask was revealed by selective chemical etching. Such a phenomenon was unexpected because no diffusion through the Si/Ge interface was previously observed on plain wafer.
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