Affiliation:
1. Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
Abstract
The paper presents the results of a study of the structure, phase composition, and growth kinetics of silicon carbide epitaxial layers on silicon substrates during their rapid vacuum thermal treatment. Transmission electron microscopy revealed the formation of layers of the cubic polytype SiC (3C-SiC) on silicon during carbidization in the temperature range of 1000–1300 °C. It was found that the formation of SiC layers proceeds in two stages, characterized by different activation energies. In the lower temperature range from 1000 to 1150 °C, the activation energy of the SiC growth process is Ea = 0.67 eV, while in the temperature range from 1150 to 1300 °C, the activation energy increases by almost an order of magnitude (Ea = 6.3 eV), which indicates a change in the limiting physical process. It has been established that the type of conductivity and the orientation of the substrate affect the thickness of the formed SiC layers. In this case, the greatest thickness of silicon carbide layers is achieved on silicon substrates with (111) orientation of p-type conductivity.
Publisher
Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
Subject
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
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