Structural and electrical properties of polycrystalline silicon films deposited by low pressure chemical vapor deposition with and without plasma enhancement |
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Authors: | J -J Hajjar R Reif D Adler |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139 Cambridge, MA |
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Abstract: | Silicon thin films prepared by chemical vapor deposition of silane at very low pressures (4 mTorr) in an experimental reactor
that allows deposition with and without plasma enhancement have been characterized. The temperature range of the substrates
on which the films were deposited was varied from 500 to 800° C for plasma-enhanced depositions and 600 to 800° C for nonplasma
depositions. Conductivity measurements as a function of temperature as well as average grain size and crystallographic texture
measurements were performed. The results indicate that the films deposited with the assistance of a plasma were amorphous
at deposition temperatures of 650° C and below and polycrystalline at deposition temperatures of 700° C and above. In the
temperature regime investigated, this amorphous-to-crystalline transition was not observed in films deposited without the
assistance of a plasma. Furthermore, all the films deposited at temperatures of 650° C and below have been found to have significantly
different properties from the similarly prepared films deposited at higher temperatures. |
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Keywords: | Polycrystalline silicon LPCVD PECVD electrical properties structural properties hydrogenation |
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