The Production of Thin Films of Metals, Metal Silicides, and Metal Borides by Chemical Vapour Deposition Using Single Organometallic Precursors

Autor: B J Aylett
Rok vydání: 1994
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Zdroj: Transactions of the IMF. 72:127-129
ISSN: 1745-9192
0020-2967
DOI: 10.1080/00202967.1994.11871037
Popis: SUMMARYChemical Vapour Deposition (CVD) offers advantages over other deposition techniques because it can produce conformal coverage of rough surfaces and within cavities. Earlier applications of CVD to produce thin coatings of metals and metal silicides and borides (”hard metals”), involving the use of two or more volatile precursors, are briefly reviewed.There is growing interest in using “prevenient” or single-substance CVD precursors; this is illustrated for transition metal silicides and borides, and the requisite properties and likely potential of such precursors are discussed. Recent experiments in which the pores of porous silicon (some 100 A in diameter) are impregnated with metals and metal silicides to a depth of at least 3 μm illustrate the power of the method.
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