Compositional analysis of thin SiOxNy : H films by heavy-ion ERDA, standard RBS, EDX and AES: a comparison
The composition of silicon oxynitride (SiOxNy:H) films deposited by electron cyclotron resonance chemical vapour deposition (ECR-CVD) was analysed by ion beam techniques, heavy-ion elastic recoil detection analysis (HI-ERDA) with 150 MeV Kr-86 ions and Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy (RBS) wi...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2004 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repositorio: | Docta Complutense |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/51121 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51121 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | 537 Electron-Cyclotron-Resonance Silicon Oxynitride Films Chemical-Vapor-Deposition. Electricidad Electrónica (Física) 2202.03 Electricidad |
| Sumario: | The composition of silicon oxynitride (SiOxNy:H) films deposited by electron cyclotron resonance chemical vapour deposition (ECR-CVD) was analysed by ion beam techniques, heavy-ion elastic recoil detection analysis (HI-ERDA) with 150 MeV Kr-86 ions and Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy (RBS) with 1.4 MeV He-4 ions. The results were compared with energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDX) and Auger electron spectroscopy (AES). Since HI-ERDA provides absolute atomic concentrations of all film components including hydrogen with a sensitivity of at least 0.005 at% the data from this method were used as a quantitative reference to assess the applicability of RBS, EDX and AES to the analysis of silicon oxynitrides. For each of these techniques the comparison with HI-ERDA allowed a discussion of the different sources of error, especially of those causing systematic deviations of the measured concentration values. A novel approach to determine from RBS spectra also the hydrogen concentrations appeared to be applicable for hydrogen levels exceeding 2 at%. Furthermore, it is shown that the film density can be determined from the HI-ERDA results alone or in combination with single-wavelength ellipsometry. |
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