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Suppression of SiC surface roughening during high-temperature annealing by atmospheric control using purified Ar gas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Atsushi Ogura ,
Daisuke Kosemura  and
Shingo Kinoshita
Shingo Kinoshita
Affiliation:
School of Science and Technology, Meiji University, Tama-ku, Kawasaki 214-8571, Japan
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Abstract

4H-silicon carbide (SiC) wafers were annealed at 1300 and 1600 °C for 30 min and 60 min in a conventional and purified Ar atmosphere. The surface roughness before and after annealing was evaluated by atomic force microscopy. The surface roughness before annealing was approximately 2.37 nm in root mean square. The roughness, after annealing for 30 min at 1300 and 1600 °C in a conventional Ar furnace, was increased to 4.53 and 14.9 nm, respectively. The roughness, after annealing for 60 min, was 5.01 and 19.1 nm, respectively. In this study, the G3 grade Ar gas (99.999%) was supplied in the conventional furnace tube. When the Ar gas was purified to an impurity concentration of less than 1 ppb, and it was supplied in the leak-tight furnace tube, the roughness after 30-min annealing improved 4.27 and 6.93 nm at 1300 and 1600 °C, respectively. The roughness after 60-min annealing was also reduced to 3.54 and 9.28 nm, respectively. We assume that a significant reduction of H2O concentration in the annealing atmosphere might play an important role in suppressing surface roughening of SiC during high-temperature annealing.

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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , April 2010 , pp. 708 - 710
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2010

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