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Nanocristaux de carbure de silicium cubique épitaxiés sur silicium : synthèse et mécanismes de croissance

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Auteur / Autrice : Geetanjali Deokar
Direction : Catherine Deville Cavellin
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Physique
Date : Soutenance en 2012
Etablissement(s) : Paris 6

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This work aims to synthesis epitaxial 3C-SiC nanocrystals (NCs) on Si employing CO2 gas and to study the growth mechanism. The method consists in annealing SiO2/Si samples (with a silica thickness ranging from a few nm up to 250 nm) at 1100°C under a few hundreds of mbars of CO2. Epitaxial, void free 3C-SiC NCs formation at the SiO2/Si interface is evidenced by FE-SEM, TEM and AFM techniques. Moreover, the use of techniques such as ion beam analysis (nuclear reaction and narrow resonance profiles) or secondary ions spectroscopy allowed us to study in detail the influence on growth of SiC NCs of several experimental parameters such as the silica layer thickness, the substrate orientation, the annealing time duration and the CO2 pressure. We shown that, while CO2 diffuses through silica it exchanges oxygen with the silica network and we could determine the diffusion coefficient of CO2 in silica at 1100°C. Based on our study, we propose a model for SiC NCs growth. The understanding of SiC NCs nucleation site and growth mechanism could be useful for insertion of the as grown NCs in various applications for example, electronic and optoelectronic devices. These NCs can also be used as seeds for SiC homoepitaxial or heteroepitaxial GaN and diamond films.