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We have successfully developed a technique to obtain a high quality oxide at low temperature (27C - 200C) and low pressure (0.5 Torr--1.5 Torr). The silicon dioxide (SiO2) insulator layers on indium antimonide(InSb) are the first time prepared by direct photo-chemical vapor deposition without mercury vapor introcuced into the chamber using vacuum ultra violet (VUV) light source (D2 lamp). The thin SiO2 films measured by He-Ne laser ellipsometer indicated that the refractive index is about 1.44-1.47, and deposition rate is about 300A/min at 1.0Torr. the films evaluated by Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) depth profile showed that composition atoms were distributed uniformly throughout the oxide film. The AES analysis found the dominant components of the oxide film are silicon and oxygen with a small amount of hydrogen. Metal/oxide/semiconductor (MOS) capacitors (AuCr/SiO2/InSb and Al/SiO2/InSb) were constructed on InSb substrates.Capacitance-voltage characteristics of the MOS capacitors were measured at 77K. The interface state density is of the order of 10E11 cm-2 eV-1, and distributed in a very good shape within the midgap. C-V curves showed that almost no hysteresis and smaller flat band voltage. The current-voltage shows the leakage current is about 1(nA) at 0.8V, and the breakdown voltage is about 0.8MV/cm.
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