Depth profiling using synchrotron radiation with high energetic resolution as demonstrated for Si-, SiC-, SiGe-, and SiGeC-samples
- Photoelectron spectroscopy utilizing synchrotron radiation of high energetic resolution (more than E/ΔE=3000) was used to record the Si2p emission signal of Si, SiC, SiGe, and SiGeC samples. The spectra exhibit signals of the elemental silicon as well as of fully oxidised silicon. Upon variing the photon energy, and therefore the escape depth of the photoelectrons, we find an oxidic silicon signal which is only half oxidized. This half oxidized silicon is located to be at the interface of the bulk material with the oxide. We determine the thickness of the surface oxide from the total ratio of oxidic and elemental silicon. We find differences between the interface and bulk oxides regarding their elemental composition. The line width of the elemental Si2p-signal exhibits a broadening of approximately 200meV while variing the photoelectron escape depth. This behaviour is interpreted as caused by surface stress.
Author: | Ricardo Pablo Mikalo, Patrick Hoffmann, Dieter SchmeißerORCiD, Anita Lloyd Spetz, Ingemar Lundström, Herbert Wawra, Klaus Pressel, Abbas Ourmazd |
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URL: | http://www.dpg-verhandlungen.de/year/2001/conference/hamburg/part/o/session/13/contribution/74?lang=de |
Title of the source (German): | Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft |
Publisher: | Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft |
Place of publication: | Bad Honnef |
Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
Language: | English |
Year of publication: | 2001 |
Tag: | X-Ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS); depth profiling; synchrotron |
Series ; volume number: | Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft ; Reihe 6, Band 36 |
Faculty/Chair: | Fakultät 1 MINT - Mathematik, Informatik, Physik, Elektro- und Informationstechnik / FG Angewandte Physik und Halbleiterspektroskopie |