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GROWTH-KINETICS OF SILICON DIOXIDE ON SILICON IN AN INDUCTIVELY COUPLED RF PLASMA AT CONSTANT ANODIZATION CURRENTS

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Title GROWTH-KINETICS OF SILICON DIOXIDE ON SILICON IN AN INDUCTIVELY COUPLED RF PLASMA AT CONSTANT ANODIZATION CURRENTS
 
Creator CHOKSI, AJ
LAL, R
CHANDORKAR, AN
 
Subject oxygen plasma
oxide-growth
oxidation
temperature
si
voltage
ions
gaas
 
Description The kinetics of plasma oxidation of silicon at constant anodization current have been investigated. Oxidation was performed in an inductively coupled rf plasma anodization setup. The oxidation model is based on the assumption that the oxidant from the plasma is neutral atomic oxygen which captures an electron inside the oxide and forms a negative oxygen ion (O-). The O- ion then hops through interstitial sites in the oxide due to the high drift field during the anodization. A photon-assisted oxidation mechanism is assumed to occur at the SiO2/Si interface in which the energy to break Si-Si bonds at the interface is supplied by UV photons which are generated in the plasma. Based on these assumptions an analytical model was developed that successfully explains the dependence of oxidation rate on the gas pressure in the plasma, which was not explained by previous investigators. It has been shown that during constant current anodization, the space-charge effects inside the oxide are negligible. It was found that the oxidation rate shows a weak temperature dependence with a thermal activation energy of 0.04 eV. The data on oxide thickness versus the oxidation time were found to be in good agreement with the theory.
 
Publisher AMER INST PHYSICS
 
Date 2011-07-15T19:10:07Z
2011-12-26T12:49:38Z
2011-12-27T05:35:05Z
2011-07-15T19:10:07Z
2011-12-26T12:49:38Z
2011-12-27T05:35:05Z
1992
 
Type Article
 
Identifier JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, 72(4), 1550-1557
0021-8979
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.351724
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10054/4351
http://hdl.handle.net/10054/4351
 
Language en