Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.116, No.26, 11819-11826, 1994
Synthetic Control of Solid-Solid Interfaces - Analysis of 3 New Silicon Silicon-Oxide Interfaces by Soft-X-Ray Photoemission
Three new silicon/silicon oxide interfaces have been synthesized using the spherosiloxane clusters H-8-Si8O12, H12Si12O18, H14Si14O21, and Si(100)-(2x1). The structure of the interfaces have been characterized by Si 2p core level photoemission spectroscopy. Reactions of H8Si8O12 with Si(111)-(7x7) and Ge(100)-(2x1) were also explored. The use of the cluster derived interfaces as spectroscopic models for thermal Si/SiO2 interfaces is discussed in terms of current methods for assigning photoemission spectra at solid/solid interfaces and the structural models proposed for the Si/SiO2 interface.
Keywords:SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPE;SI/SIO2 INTERFACE;ELECTRONIC-STRUCTURE;CHEMICAL-STRUCTURE;XPS;SPECTROSCOPY;SI(100);SIO2