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Study of the growth mechanisms of low-pressure chemically vapour deposited silica films

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URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10016/6948
ISSN: 1155-4339
DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.1051/jp4:1999833
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1999-09
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We have studied the surface morphology evolution of SiO2 films grown at 20 nm/min in a low-pressure chemical vapour deposition reactor from SiH4/O2 mixtures at low (611 K) and high (723 K) temperatures. Films have been deposited for times ranging from 10 min up to 48 hours. It is shown that the SiO2 growth at high temperature becomes stable, whereas at low temperature it is unstable (i.e., the surface roughness increases continuously with deposition time). This clear difference is explained on the basis of the different growth mechanisms operating under both experimental conditions. These results are compared with the predictions of the few theoretical works on growth evolution by chemical vapour deposition.
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7 pages, 5 figures.-- Issue title: "Proceedings of the Twelfth European Conference on Chemical Vapour Deposition" (Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, Sep 5-10, 1999).
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Journal de Physique IV France, 1999, vol. 9, n. PR8, p. 265-271
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