Monitoring of Si Molecular-Beam Epitaxial Growth by an Ellipsometric Method

Ellipsometric measurements were applied to investigate Si homoepitaxial growth by molecular-beam epitaxy on a Si(111) substrate, and the changes in film thickness and optical parameters were monitored. The reflection high-energy electron diffraction (RHEED) intensity oscillation monitoring method wa...

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Veröffentlicht in:Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 2001-01, Vol.40 (1R), p.371
Hauptverfasser: Yoshioka, Yoshifumi, Ikuta, Tetsuya, Taji, Toshiya, Mizobata, Kouzou, Shimura, Takayoshi, Umeno, Masataka
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Ellipsometric measurements were applied to investigate Si homoepitaxial growth by molecular-beam epitaxy on a Si(111) substrate, and the changes in film thickness and optical parameters were monitored. The reflection high-energy electron diffraction (RHEED) intensity oscillation monitoring method was also employed for comparison. In the epitaxial growth mode, Ψ and Δ values showed only a small spiral variation and the analyzed optical constants were nearly the same as those of single-crystal Si. The film thickness obtained by the ellipsometric method exhibited good agreement with that obtained by RHEED oscillation as well as by a quartz crystal monitor. Thus, it was shown that the film thickness monitoring by ellipsometry is useful even for the Si/Si homoepitaxial growth with a step flow mechanism, where the RHEED oscillation monitoring method is not available.
ISSN:0021-4922
1347-4065
DOI:10.1143/JJAP.40.371