TY - JOUR
T1 - Dependence of SiO 2 /Si interface structure on low-temperature oxidation process
AU - Hattori, T.
AU - Azuma, K.
AU - Nakata, Y.
AU - Shioji, M.
AU - Shiraishi, T.
AU - Yoshida, T.
AU - Takahashi, K.
AU - Nohira, H.
AU - Takata, Y.
AU - Shin, S.
AU - Kobayashi, K.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors express sincere thanks to M. Katayama from Shinetsu Handoutai Ltd. for supplying epitaxially grown silicon wafers used in the present study. The synchrotron radiation experiments were performed at SPring-8 with the approval of Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute as a Nanotechnology Support Project of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. This work was partially supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture through a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas (A) (No. 13025243), and partially by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development.
PY - 2004/7/15
Y1 - 2004/7/15
N2 - By using the SPring-8 beam line, we have studied the dependence of the chemical structure and uniformity of three kinds of approximately 1nm-thick silicon oxide films formed by using atomic oxygen at 300°C on the oxidation process. Among the SiO 2 Si interfaces formed by several oxidation methods using atomic oxygen, the uniformity was strongly dependent on the oxidation process and the highest uniformity was obtained with the krypton-mixed oxygen plasma oxidation, while the abruptness of the compositional transition layer was weakly dependent on the oxidation process.
AB - By using the SPring-8 beam line, we have studied the dependence of the chemical structure and uniformity of three kinds of approximately 1nm-thick silicon oxide films formed by using atomic oxygen at 300°C on the oxidation process. Among the SiO 2 Si interfaces formed by several oxidation methods using atomic oxygen, the uniformity was strongly dependent on the oxidation process and the highest uniformity was obtained with the krypton-mixed oxygen plasma oxidation, while the abruptness of the compositional transition layer was weakly dependent on the oxidation process.
KW - Electronic structure
KW - Interface structure
KW - Oxidation process
KW - Photoelectron spectra
KW - Uniformity
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U2 - 10.1016/j.apsusc.2004.05.044
DO - 10.1016/j.apsusc.2004.05.044
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:3342941786
SN - 0169-4332
VL - 234
SP - 197
EP - 201
JO - Applied Surface Science
JF - Applied Surface Science
IS - 1-4
T2 - The Ninth International Conference on the Formation of Semicon
Y2 - 15 September 2003 through 19 September 2003
ER -