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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 108, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4939654
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- Dutch Technology Foundation STW
- Netherlands Organization for scientific Research (NWO, VICI Program on Nanomanufacturing)
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The surface reactions during atomic layer deposition (ALD) of Al2O3 from Al(CH3)(3) and H2O have been studied with broadband sum-frequency generation to reveal what is limiting the growth at low temperatures. The -CH3 surface coverage was measured for temperatures between 100 and 300 degrees C and the absolute reaction cross sections, describing the reaction kinetics, were determined for both half-cycles. It was found that -CH3 groups persisted on the surface after saturation of the H2O half-cycle. From a direct correlation with the growth per cycle, it was established that the reduced reactivity of H2O towards -CH3 is the dominant factor limiting the ALD process at low temperatures. (C) 2016 AIP Publishing LLC.
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