Issue 5, 2024

Atomistic insights into predictive in silico chemical vapor deposition

Abstract

An unmatched atomistic technique for predictive in silico chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is reported from an experimental and modeling perspective in the current manuscript. The gas-phase and surface-phase chemical reaction rates dependent on the precursor's flow rates, reactor chamber geometry, and other input conditions are observed to play significant roles in deciding the monolayer growth morphology. The randomness-based kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) technique is exploited for the computation of adsorption, diffusion, and desorption rates. The deposition of silicon (Si) and silicon-germanium (SixGe1−x) layers over the 〈100〉 Si substrate is carried out to measure the thin film quality, growth rate, strain, lattice constant, and mole-fraction and map the point defects (vacancies) along with the surface roughness. The impact of variation of various input physical parameters is studied during the validation of experimental results. The growth rates of Si and SixGe1−x are found to be in good agreement with the experimental results under the similar input conditions. The common natural phenomenon of self-organization of spontaneously formed spatial, temporal, or spatio-temporal patterns is observed during growth through the proposed technique.

Graphical abstract: Atomistic insights into predictive in silico chemical vapor deposition

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
21 Nov 2023
Accepted
08 Jan 2024
First published
10 Jan 2024
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Mater. Adv., 2024,5, 2110-2119

Atomistic insights into predictive in silico chemical vapor deposition

P. K. Saxena, P. Srivastava, A. Srivastava and A. Saxena, Mater. Adv., 2024, 5, 2110 DOI: 10.1039/D3MA01033C

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