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Spectroscopic Ellipsometry and Interference Reflectometry Measurements of CVD Silicon Grown on Oxidized Silicon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

G. E. Jellison Jr ,
M. Keefer  and
L. Thornquist
G. E. Jellison Jr
Affiliation:
Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831
M. Keefer
Affiliation:
Prometrix Corp., Santa Clara, CA 95054
L. Thornquist
Affiliation:
Prometrix Corp., Santa Clara, CA 95054
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Abstract

Several samples of thin-film silicon grown on oxidized Si, both oxidized and unoxidized, have been examined using spectroscopie ellipsometry (SE) and constant angle reflection interference spectroscopy (CARIS). The SE data was fit to 5- or 6- layer models of the sample near-surface region, using the optical functions of thin-film silicon determined from a previous work. Reasonable fits were obtained from samples containing amorphous Si (a-Si) or large-grain poly-crystalline Si (p-Si), but fits to samples containing small-grain, undoped p-Si were poor unless a 8–15 nm surface roughness layer is included. Furthermore, the optical functions of p-Si:ud are not consistent from sample to sample. The optical functions determined from SE measurements were then used to interpret CARIS measurements, extracting the thicknesses of the films, which are then compared with the thicknesses obtained from SE.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 283: Symposium F – Microcrystalline Semiconductors–Materials Science and Devices , 1992 , 561
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1993

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