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Reaction Control in Amorphous Silicon Film Deposition by Hydrogen Chloride

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Akihiro Takano ,
Takehito Wada ,
Shinji Fujikake ,
Takashi Yoshida ,
Tokio Ohto  and
Eray S. Aydil
Akihiro Takano
Affiliation:
Fuji Electric Corporate Research and Development, Ltd., 2-2-1 Nagasaka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 240-0194Japan
Takehito Wada
Affiliation:
Fuji Electric Corporate Research and Development, Ltd., 2-2-1 Nagasaka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 240-0194Japan
Shinji Fujikake
Affiliation:
Fuji Electric Corporate Research and Development, Ltd., 2-2-1 Nagasaka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 240-0194Japan
Takashi Yoshida
Affiliation:
Fuji Electric Corporate Research and Development, Ltd., 2-2-1 Nagasaka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 240-0194Japan
Tokio Ohto
Affiliation:
Fuji Electric Corporate Research and Development, Ltd., 2-2-1 Nagasaka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 240-0194Japan
Eray S. Aydil
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, U.S.A.
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Abstract

HCl was added to SiH4 containing plasmas to grow a-Si:H(Cl) films with dangling bonds terminated with Cl instead of H. Bulk and surface infrared spectra, film thickness and optical band gap were examined by in situ multiple total internal reflection Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and in situ spectroscopic ellipsometry. SiH2Cl2 was also used as a conventional Cl source for reference a-Si:H(Cl) film deposition experiments. The introduction of HCl does not affect the deposition rate significantly, and the deposited a-Si:H(Cl) films contain over 1021cm-3 Cl atoms. HCl addition to the gas phase changes the surface compositions of the growing films drastically from higher silicon hydride to chlorinated lower hydride. The surface reaction control eliminates unfavorable hydride bonding structures such as SiH2 and/or SiH in voids in the deposited films. The a-Si:H(Cl) films deposited from mixtures of SiH4 and HCl do not show significant optical band gap widening in spite of containing over 1021cm-3 Cl atoms, a concentration that is comparable to that of hydrogen. In contrast, a conventional chlorine source of SiH2Cl2 increases the deposition rate significantly compared to HCl. The increase in the deposition rate results in monotonic decrease of the refractive index and the optical band gap widening.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 762: Symposium A – Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Silicon-Based Films – 2003 , 2003 , A15.2
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2003

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