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Embedding of iron silicide nanocrystals into monocrystalline silicon : Suppression of emersion effect. / Chusovitin, Evgeniy; Goroshko, Dmitry; Dotsenko, Sergey et al.
Asia-Pacific Conference on Fundamental Problems of Opto- and Microelectronics 2017. ed. / Yuri N. Kulchin; Roman V. Romashko; Jyh-Chiang Jiang. Vol. 11024 SPIE, 2019. 1102402 (Proceedings of SPIE; Vol. 11024).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Embedding of iron silicide nanocrystals into monocrystalline silicon
T2 - 16th Asia-Pacific Conference on Fundamental Problems of Opto- and Microelectronics, APCOM 2017
AU - Chusovitin, Evgeniy
AU - Goroshko, Dmitry
AU - Dotsenko, Sergey
AU - Shevlyagin, Alexander
AU - Gutakovskii, Anton
AU - Galkin, Nikolay
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - The formation of iron silicide nanocrystals (NCs) and their embedding into monocrystalline silicon was studied. Solid phase epitaxy of 0.4 nm Fe at 630 °C resulted in formation of NCs consisted of β-FeSi2 and ϵ-FeSi phases. Annealing of NCs at 750 °C for 90 min led to transformation of β-FeSi2 and ϵ-FeSi into α-FeSi2. On the other hand, silicon layer growth over as-formed NCs, at the same temperature, resulted in formation of single phase NCs consisted of β-FeSi2. Silicon deposition rate proved to be the crucial point for a full embedding of NCs. The rate of 1 nm/min resulted in emersion of NCs to the surface during silicon overgrowth irrespective of Si cap layer thickness, while the rate of 8 nm/min led to the full embedding of β-FeSi2 NCs. Both incompletely and fully embedded β-FeSi2 NCs have epitaxial relationship and stress favorable for an indirect to direct band-gap transition at Y point.
AB - The formation of iron silicide nanocrystals (NCs) and their embedding into monocrystalline silicon was studied. Solid phase epitaxy of 0.4 nm Fe at 630 °C resulted in formation of NCs consisted of β-FeSi2 and ϵ-FeSi phases. Annealing of NCs at 750 °C for 90 min led to transformation of β-FeSi2 and ϵ-FeSi into α-FeSi2. On the other hand, silicon layer growth over as-formed NCs, at the same temperature, resulted in formation of single phase NCs consisted of β-FeSi2. Silicon deposition rate proved to be the crucial point for a full embedding of NCs. The rate of 1 nm/min resulted in emersion of NCs to the surface during silicon overgrowth irrespective of Si cap layer thickness, while the rate of 8 nm/min led to the full embedding of β-FeSi2 NCs. Both incompletely and fully embedded β-FeSi2 NCs have epitaxial relationship and stress favorable for an indirect to direct band-gap transition at Y point.
KW - embedded nanocrystals
KW - epitaxy
KW - phase transformation
KW - silicon
KW - β-FeSi
KW - TRANSITION
KW - TEMPERATURE
KW - beta-FeSi2
KW - FESI2
KW - GAAS
KW - SOLID-PHASE EPITAXY
KW - QUANTUM DOTS
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85061028627&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1117/12.2314675
DO - 10.1117/12.2314675
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85061028627
VL - 11024
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE
BT - Asia-Pacific Conference on Fundamental Problems of Opto- and Microelectronics 2017
A2 - Kulchin, Yuri N.
A2 - Romashko, Roman V.
A2 - Jiang, Jyh-Chiang
PB - SPIE
Y2 - 5 November 2017 through 7 November 2017
ER -
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