화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of Crystal Growth, Vol.455, 157-160, 2016
Growing c-axis oriented aluminum nitride films by Plasma-Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition at low temperatures
The possibility of using plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition method for growing heteroepitaxial oriented AIN films on Si (100) and sapphire (001) substrates at temperatures less than 300 degrees C was investigated. The resulting samples were studied by X-ray diffraction analysis and ellipsometry. It has been shown that, ceteris paribus, AIN films grown on sapphire substrates have higher crystallinity than the samples grown on silicon wafers. With duration of plasma exposure of more than 20 s and at a temperature of 300 degrees C synthesized heteroepitaxial film had refractive index equal to 2.03 +/- 0.03. The X-ray diffraction scans feature (002) and (004) reflections at 2 Theta equal to 35.7 degrees and 75.9 degrees, which are characteristic of hexagonal polytype of AIN. For the best sample, (002) reflection had full width on the half maximum of 162 +/- 11 ''