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Published July 1992 | public
Journal Article

Selective nucleation of silicon clusters in CVD

Abstract

A nucleation model is developed that includes chemical etching of atoms as an additional loss process besides thermal dissociation that competes with the process of atom addition in forming a cluster. The model has the proper qualitative features to describe observations of the evolution of cluster formation on amorphous silicon substrates in the low pressure CVD of a mixture of SiH₂Cl₂/HCl/H₂.

Additional Information

The authors are grateful for useful discussions with Dr. T. Yonehara.

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