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High Throughput Screening Tools for Thermoelectric Materials
A suite of complementary high-throughput screening systems for combinatorial films was developed at National Institute of Standards and Technology to facilitate the search for efficient thermoelectric material...
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Relationship between Interfacial Roughness and Dielectric Reliability for Silicon Oxynitride Gate Dielectrics Processed with Nitric Oxide
The greatest benefits of nitrogen incorporation into gate dielectrics may be obtained by placing nitrogen preferentially at the interfacial regions of the dielectric film. One method of distributing nitrogen i...
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Soft Breakdown in Ultra-Thin Oxides
An understanding of dielectric breakdown mechanisms is critical for continued oxide scaling. Although working transistors have been demonstrated with sub-2nm SiO2 gate dielectrics, the manufacturability of such d...
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Thermal Routes to Ultrathin Oxynitrides
Ultrathin (< 6 nm)silicon oxynitrides are desirable as gate dielectrics for present and future ultra-large-scale-integrated (ULSI) circuits due to their improved reliability [1-3] and boron penetration resistance...
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Medium Energy Ion Scattering Studies of Silicon Oxidation and Oxynitridation
The paper reviews some of our recent high resolution medium energy ion scattering (MEIS) experiments on mechanistic and structural aspects of ultrathin (<5 nm) dielectric films (oxides, SiO2, and oxynitrides, SiO...
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Magnetic Measurements of the 5 Meter QC Series Quadrupoles at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
From May 1991 to September 1992, magnetic measurements were performed on six 5 meter prototype SSC quadrupoles designed and built at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL). In addition, one of the quadrupoles was ...
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In-Situ Processing of Si Film Structures in a Rapid Thermal Chemical Vapor Deposition Reactor
Although the benefits of in-situ processing seem intuitively obvious as higher yield due to particle and contamination control, there is presently little data to support these claims. However, materials charac...
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Preparation of poly(ethylene glycol)-grafted alumina
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Boron Diffusion in Si1-x Gex Strained Layers
Boron diffusion in Sia7 Gea3 strained layers has been studied as a function of annealing temperature and is compared to boron diffusion in unstrained Si epitaxial layers. A lower diffusivity was observed in Sia7 ...
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Strain-Free GexSi1−x Layers with Low Threading Dislocation Densities Grown on Si Substrates
We have grown linearly compositionally graded GexSi1−x structures at high temperatures (700–900°C) on Si substrates to form a surface which resembles a GexSi1−x substrate. We have obtained completely relaxed stru...
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Oxygen and carbon incorporation in low temperature epitaxial Si films grown by rapid thermal chemical vapor deposition (RTCVD)
Using SIMS analysis, we have measured oxygen and carbon concentrations in epitaxial Si films grown between 550 and 900° C. The films were grown by rapid thermal chemical vapor deposition from SiH4 as well as seve...
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Elimination of dislocations in heteroepitaxial MBE and RTCVD Ge x Si1-x grown on patterned Si substrates
We have grown Ge x Si1-x (0 <x < 0.20,1000–3000Å thick) on small growth areas etched in the Si substrate. Layers were grown using both molecular beam epi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Magnetization Hysteresis in the Bi(Pb)SrCaCuO Superconducting System
Magnetization hysteresis of polycrystalline Bi(Pb)SrCaCuO samples was measured over a wide temperature range at applied fields up to 9 T using vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM). The irreversibility (△M) was ...
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High Quality Si and Si1−xGex Films and Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors Grown by Rapid Thermal Chemical Vapor Deposition (Rtcvd)
Rapid thermal chemical vapor deposition (RTCVD) is a processing technique that results from the combination of radiant heating lamps and a CVD chamber. It is the ultimate cold-wall CVD reactor and allows one t...
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Electrical Properties of Si/SiGe Structures Grown by Low Temperature Epitaxy
Si/SiGe heterostructures offer improved performance for many electronic and optoelectronic Si devices. The expected improvement in device characteristics depends critically on the structural perfection and pre...
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Deposition, post-deposition annealing, and characterization of epitaxial Ge films grown on Si(100) by pyrolysis of GeH4
As a first step towards develo** heterostructures such as GaAs/Ge/Si entirely by chemical vapor deposition, Ge films have been deposited on (100) Si by the pyrolysis of GeH4. The best films are grown at 700° C ...
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Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition of Tungsten and Aluminum for VLSI Applications
This paper reviews the current status of LPCVD tungsten and aluminum for VLSI applications. Using deposition chemistries based on tungsten hexafluoride and tri-isobutyl aluminum, W and Al deposits are characte...
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The Effects of Dopants and Crystal Perfection on the Chemical Vapor Deposition of Tungsten on Silicon by Silicon Reduction of Tungsten Hexafluoride
The use of CVD W as a diffusion barrier between Al and Si is becoming widespread. The initial stage of the deposition involves the Si reduction of WF6 according to the following reaction:
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Chemical Vapor Deposition of Metals for Integrated Circuit Applications
Chemical vapor deposition has been used to deposit films and purify metals since about the turn of the century. Whereas CVD technology was adopted very early by the integrated circuit industry for the depositi...
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Quadrics of rank four in the ideal of a canonical curve