Journal
THIN SOLID FILMS
Volume 764, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsf.2022.139629
Keywords
Silicon oxynitride; Argon; Nitrogen plasma; Refractive index
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The refractive index of SiOxNy thin film is controlled by changing the N2 and Ar flow ratio in 13.56 MHz RF-ICP. The density of N2+ and the refractive index of the thin film increase as the gas ratio [N2/(N2+Ar)] increases from 0.1 to 0.9. The results show that N2+ plays an important role in changing the properties of thin film during the plasma process.
Silicon nitride (Si3N4) has been widely used in semiconductor devices and applications, including the passivation layer in organic light-emitting diode (OLED). However, it becomes more important to adjust the refractive index value of silicon nitride layers. For example, the refractive index difference between the passivation layer and emission layer is one of the problems degrading OLED performance. Recently, silicon oxynitride (SiOxNy) thin films possessing different refractive indexes have been fabricated by varying their nitrogen and oxygen content. In this work, we control the refractive index of SiOxNy thin film by changing the N2 and Ar flow ratio in 13.56 MHz radio-frequency inductively coupled plasma (RF-ICP). To study the effects of gas composition in the plasma on the properties of thin films, nitrogen atom (N) and nitrogen molecular ion (N2+) density are investigated using actinometry and simulation via the synthetic spectrum method, respectively. We observed that when the gas ratio defined as [N2/(N2+Ar)] increases from 0.1 to 0.9, the density of N2+ increases from 4.76x1015 m -3 to 1.71x1016 m -3 and the refractive index of the thin film increases from 1.54 to 1.57. The results indicate that N2+ plays the important role in changing the properties of thin film during the plasma process.
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