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Oxidation and nitridation of niobium films by rapid thermal processing
Authors:Volha A Matylitskaya  Wolfgang Bock  Klaus Thoma  Bernd O Kolbesen
Institution:Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universit?t Frankfurt/M., Marie-Curie-Str. 11, D-60439, Frankfurt/M, Germany
Institut für Oberfl?chen- und Schichtenanalytik (IFOS), Universit?t Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Experimentalphysik, Universit?t Kassel, Kassel, Germany
Abstract:The oxidation and nitridation processes of niobium films in a rapid thermal processing (RTP) – system were investigated. 200 and 500 nm niobium films were deposited via sputtering on sapphire-(1-102)-substrate. At first niobium films were oxidized in molecular oxygen at temperatures ranging from 350 to 500 °C and for times of 1, 2 and 5 min and then nitridated in ammonia at 1000 °C for 1 min using an RTP system. For characterisation of the niobium films complementary analytical methods were used: X-ray diffraction (XRD) for phase analysis, secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) for determining the elemental depth profiles of the films, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) for characterisation of the surface morphology of the films. The influence of the substrate, single crystalline sapphire, on the reactivity of the niobium films was studied in dependence of temperature, time of reaction and film thickness. The possibility of existence of niobium oxynitride phase was investigated. According to XRD and SIMS data, there is evidence that an oxynitride phase is formed after oxidation and subsequent nitridation in the bulk of some Nb films. In some of the experiments crack formation in the films or even delamination of the Nb films from the substrates was observed.
Keywords:: Niobium  rapid thermal processing (RTP)  nitrides  oxynitrides  thin films  X-ray diffraction (XRD)  SIMS depth          profile  
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