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Surface Chemical Reactions in the Mocvd of Aluminum Films

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

Brian E. Bent ,
Ralph G. Nuzzo  and
Lawrence H. Dubois
Brian E. Bent
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
Ralph G. Nuzzo
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
Lawrence H. Dubois
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
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Abstract

We have studied the deposition of aluminum films by triisobutylaluminum (TIBA) pyrolysis on clean and oxidized Si(lll) (7×7), Si(100) (2×1), and an evaporated aluminum film on silicon. On all of the silicon surfaces, HBA has a very low reaction probability (<0.01). On aluminum, the reaction probability is much higher, and the rate of steady state aluminum deposition is limited by β-hydride elimination from surface-bound isobutyl species to give isobutene and hydrogen. In the steady state deposition of aluminum on top of silicon, gas phase silanes such as isobutyl- and diisobutylsilane are also evolved. This clearly indicates that hydrogen and alkyl ligand transfer from aluminum to silicon (which has diffused up through the growing aluminum film) can occur. We have also found that alkyl species generated on aluminum surfaces by. the adsorption of alkyl iodides have surface chemistries analogous to the aluminum alkyl ligands.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 101: Symposium B – Laser and Particle-Beam Chemical Processing for Microelectronics , 1987 , 177
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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