Abstract
Compared with conventional plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition, laser-assisted plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (LAPECVD) can be used to deposit crystalline SiGe films on Si substrates at low temperature. In the LAPECVD system, a C O2 laser with a wavelength of 10.6 μm was utilized to assist the pyrolytical decomposition of Si H4 and Ge H4 reactant gases. The resultant Si0.78 Ge0.22 films were obtained and verified through the use of the Auger electron spectroscopy measurement. As the diffraction pattern of a glancing incident angle X-ray diffraction measurement had indicated, several significant diffraction peaks corresponding to a diamond-cubic structure at (111), (220), and (311) were clearly observed. Crystalline SiGe films were also identified by the electron diffraction pattern of high-resolution transmission electron microscopy images.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 091920 |
Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
Volume | 91 |
Issue number | 9 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2007 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)