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Grant, Nicholas E., Pointon, Alex I., Jefferies, Richard, Hiller, Daniel, Han, Yisong, Beanland, Richard, Walker, Marc and Murphy, John D. (2020) Atomic level termination for passivation and functionalisation of silicon surfaces. Nanoscale, 12 . 17332-17341 . doi:10.1039/d0nr03860a
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0nr03860a
Abstract
Chemical treatments play an essential role in the formation of high quality interfaces between materials, including in semiconductor devices, and in the functionalisation of surfaces. We have investigated the effects of hydrogen and fluorine termination of (100)-orientation silicon surfaces over a range of length scales. At the centimetre scale, lifetime measurements show clean silicon surfaces can be temporarily passivated by a short treatment in both HF(2%) : HCl(2%) and HF(50%) solutions. The lifetime, and hence surface passivation, becomes better with immersion time in the former, and worse with immersion time in the latter. At the nanometre scale, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy show treatment with strong HF solutions results in a roughened fluorine-terminated surface. Subsequent superacid-derived surface passivation on different chemically treated surfaces shows considerably better passivation on surfaces treated with HF(2%) : HCl(2%) compared to HF. Lifetime data are modelled to understand the termination in terms of chemical and field effect passivation at the centimetre scale. Surfaces passivated with Al2O3 grown by atomic layer deposition behave similarly when either HF(2%) : HCl(2%) or HF(50%) are used as a pre-treatment, possibly because of the thin silicon dioxide interlayer which subsequently forms. Our study highlights that chemical pre-treatments can be extremely important in the creation of high quality functionalised surfaces.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics Q Science > QD Chemistry |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Engineering | ||||||||||||
| Type of Data: | Experimental data | ||||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Silicon -- Surfaces, Atomic layer deposition, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Atomic force microscopy | ||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Nanoscale | ||||||||||||
| Publisher: | Royal Society of Chemistry | ||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 2040-3364 | ||||||||||||
| Official Date: | 2020 | ||||||||||||
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| Volume: | 12 | ||||||||||||
| Page Range: | 17332-17341 | ||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1039/d0nr03860a | ||||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||||||||
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