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Publication
Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces and Films
Paper
Equilibrium surface hydrogen coverage during silicon epitaxy using SiH4
Abstract
Epitaxial silicon has been grown on Si (100) wafers using SiH4in a rapid thermal chemical vapor deposition reactor in the temperature regime from 450–700 °C. Gas analysis during growth and thermal desorption spectra (TDS) after growth were measured with a differentially pumped mass spectrometer. We have attempted to estimate the surface population of hydrogen during epitaxial growth by “freezing out” the surface hydrogen with a rapid cool down and pump down followed by a temperature programmed desorption taken in the reactor. SiH is found as the majority species in equilibrium during growth, with the surface population decreasing from one monolayer around 550–600 °C, at a pressure of three mTorr SiH4. Molecular hydrogen does not interfere with silane adsorption in this pressure regime. © 1990, American Vacuum Society. All rights reserved.