Si/SiO2 interface attack during metal oxide growth under low oxygen pressure

Autor: Kikuo Yamabe, Kazuo Shimoyama, Masahiro Kiyohara, Kousuke Kubo
Rok vydání: 2003
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Zdroj: Applied Surface Science. 216:307-311
ISSN: 0169-4332
DOI: 10.1016/s0169-4332(03)00442-2
Popis: The growths of BaTiO 3 films on interfacial SiO 2 were carried out with molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) in various oxygen partial pressures. In the BaTiO 3 growth on 2 nm-thick SiO 2 film at the oxygen partial pressure of less than 4.8×10 −5 Pa, concavities at the BaTiO 3 film surface and the Si/SiO 2 interface appeared and the Si atoms diffused from the Si substrate to the top BaTiO 3 layer. These were observed only after the film growth in the low oxygen pressure and only on ultrathin interfacial SiO 2 . And the silicide material was formed within the concavity. These results indicate that 2 nm-thick SiO 2 film is not enough to the suppression of the reaction of the metal atoms with Si substrate.
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