Overlayers of SiO 2 (nominally 4, 6 and 8 nm thick) on silicon, prepared by thermal oxidation, were investigated using x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The thickness of these overlayers was obtained from a measurement of the photoelectron intensities originating from the substrate and the oxi
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of thermally grown silicon dioxide films on silicon
β Scribed by G. Hollinger; Y. Jugnet; P. Pertosa; Tran Minh Duc
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1975
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 426 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0009-2614
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β¦ Synopsis
At various stages of in situ therm31 oxiclztion of Si(lll) monocrystals, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS or ESCA) t-eve& a shift in the silicon core-level binding energies which vties continuously from 2.4 to 4.2 eV. From the oxygen &d silicon ESCA peak intensities, these films un be said to have the silicon dioxide composition with m excess in oxygen ancentration. By correMing the siLiccn 2p or 2s bindingenergy shifts with oxygen KLL Auger energy and oxygen Is bindingenergy shifts. it is shown that a Fermi level shift znd differential extra-atomic relaxation energy in the interfziai region must be invoked, in addition to chemical structure considerations, to interpret these data.
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