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Low Energy Ion Impact-enhanced Growth of Cubic Boron Nitride in a Supersonic Nitrogen/argon Plasma Flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

D. H. Berns  and
M. A. Cappelli
D. H. Berns
Affiliation:
Mechanical Engineering Department, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-3032
M. A. Cappelli
Affiliation:
Mechanical Engineering Department, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-3032
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Abstract

This paper describes the growth and analysis of cubic boron nitride films in a low-density, supersonic nitrogen/argon plasma flow into which boron trichloride gas was injected. Both hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and cubic boron nitride (c-BN) were synthesized using this apparatus. Phase selectivity is obtained by applying a relatively low negative bias voltage to the substrate. All of the films described in this paper were grown on {100} silicon wafers at substrate temperatures varying from 400–700 °C. Boron nitride films with greater than 90% cubic phase were successfully synthesized with this method. The films were analyzed using infrared spectroscopy, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and scanning electron microscopy. The volumetric percentages of the hexagonal and cubic phases were determined from model fits to the infrared transmission spectra of the films. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy provided qualitative evidence for the presence and/or lack of sp2 bonding through the identification of a π-plasmon feature in the spectra. Infrared reflectance spectra are used to provide insight into the growth mechanisms leading to c-BN formation and have revealed features which are not present in the transmission spectra, specifically the 1305 cm−1 LO mode of c-BN and the 1610 cm−1 LO mode of h-BN. The mean ion energies involved with this bias-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process are much lower than the ion energies in traditional physical vapor deposition (PVD) processes; however, the ion fluxes (currents) used in this CVD process are at least an order of magnitude higher, resulting in a total momentum transfer to the deposited atoms through ion bombardment that is at least equal to or greater than that reported for many ion-enhanced PVD processes.

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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 12 , Issue 8 , August 1997 , pp. 2014 - 2026
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1997

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