Carbon-doped hydrogenated silicon oxide (SiOCH) low-k films have been prepared using 13.56 MHz discharge in trimethylsilane (3MS) - oxygen gas mixtures at 3, 4, and 5 Torr sustained with RF power densities 1.3 - 2.6 W/cm/sup 2/. The atomic structure of the SiOCH films appears to be a mixture of the amorphous SiO/sub 2/-like and the partially polycrystalline SiC-like phases. Results of the infrared spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy reflect the increment in the volume fraction of the SiC-like phase from 0.22 - 0.28 to 0.36 - 0.39 as the RF power increment. Steady-state near-UV laser-excited (364 nm wavelength, 40/spl plusmn/2 mW) photoluminescence (PL) has been studied at room temperatures in the visible ( 1.8 eV - 3.1 eV) range of photon energies. Two main bands of the PL signal (at the photon energies of 2.5 - 2.6 eV and 2.8 2.9 eV) are observed. Intensities of the both bands are changed non-monotonically with RF power, whereas the bandwidth of /spl sim/0.1 eV remains almost invariable. It is likely that the above lines are originated by the radiative recombination involving D/sub 1/ centres in the crystalline SiC-like phases. Explanation of the PL intensity dependence on the RF power density can be based on results of studies of morphology of the SiOCH films.


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    Titel :

    A photoluminescence of low-K SiOCH films, prepared by PECVD


    Beteiligte:
    Ligatchev, V. (Autor:in) / Wong, T.K.S. (Autor:in) / Rusli, (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2002-01-01


    Format / Umfang :

    247404 byte





    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch