Optical constants of germanium and thermally grown germanium dioxide from 0.5 to 6.6eV via a multisample ellipsometry investigation
Thermal GeO2 oxides up to 136 nm thickness were produced by annealing Ge wafers in pure oxygen at 550 °C and 270 kPa pressure for up to 10 h. The oxidation kinetics followed the Deal–Grove law. Using multisample spectroscopic ellipsometry for a series of five thermal oxides with different thicknesse...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of vacuum science and technology. B, Nanotechnology & microelectronics Nanotechnology & microelectronics, 2016-11, Vol.34 (6) |
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Zusammenfassung: | Thermal GeO2 oxides up to 136 nm thickness were produced by annealing Ge wafers in pure oxygen at 550 °C and 270 kPa pressure for up to 10 h. The oxidation kinetics followed the Deal–Grove law. Using multisample spectroscopic ellipsometry for a series of five thermal oxides with different thicknesses, the complex dielectric functions of Ge and GeO2 were determined from 0.5 to 6.6 eV, for thin-film metrology applications in Ge-based microelectronics and photonics. The dispersion of the GeO2 layer was modeled with a simple Tauc-Lorentz oscillator model, but a more complicated dispersion with eight parametric oscillators was required for Ge. A reasonable fit to the ellipsometric angles could be obtained by assuming that all thermal oxides can be described by the same dielectric function, regardless of thickness, but a slight improvement was achieved by allowing for a lower density oxide near the surface of the thickest films. The authors compare their results with literature data for Ge and bulk and thin-film GeO2. |
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ISSN: | 2166-2746 2166-2754 |
DOI: | 10.1116/1.4963075 |