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Low temperature selective Si epitaxy by reduced pressure chemical vapor deposition introducing periodic deposition and etching cycles with SiH4, H2 and HCl

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2011

Hong-Seung Kim
Affiliation:
SiGe Device Team, Microelectronics Technology Laboratory, Electronics andTelecommunications Research Institute, 161 Kajong-Dong, Yusong-Gu, Taejon, 305-350, Korea
Kyu-Hwan Shim
Affiliation:
SiGe Device Team, Microelectronics Technology Laboratory, Electronics andTelecommunications Research Institute, 161 Kajong-Dong, Yusong-Gu, Taejon, 305-350, Korea
Jeong-Yong Lee
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Scienceand Technology, Gusung-Dong, Yusong-Gu, Taejon, 305-350, Korea
Jin-Yeong Kang
Affiliation:
SiGe Device Team, Microelectronics Technology Laboratory, Electronics andTelecommunications Research Institute, 161 Kajong-Dong, Yusong-Gu, Taejon, 305-350, Korea
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Abstract

This paper presents the experimental results of selective Si epitaxial growth from 650 °C to 700 °C on (100) silicon wafers with oxide patterns using reduced pressure chemical vapor deposition with the SiH4-HCl-H2 gas system. In addition, an HCl etching process is introduced and the conditions of the deposition and etching processes are addressed to sustain the selectivity. As a result, we noted that the addition of HCl serves not only to reduce the growth rate on bare Si, but also to suppress the nucleation on SiO2. In these experiments it has been also observed that the Si layer was grown to 3 nm while sustaining the selectivity. Moreover, further introduction of the HCl etching process following the deposition allowed a 50 nm-thick film to sustain the selectivity for twenty periods.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2000

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