Thermodynamic study on the chemical vapor deposition of silicon nitride from the SiCl4-NH3-H2 system

Haitao Ren, Litong Zhang, Kehe Su, Qingfeng Zeng, Laifei Cheng

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Abstract

The gas-phase reaction thermodynamics in the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process of preparing silicon nitride with the precursors of SiCl4-NH3-H2 was investigated with a relatively complete set of 161 species, in which the thermochemistry data were calculated with accurate model chemistry at G3(MP2) and G3//B3LYP levels combined with standard statistical thermodynamics. The data include the heat capacities, entropies, enthalpies of formation, and Gibbs energies of formation. Two condensed phase, silicon nitride (Si3N4) and silicon (Si) were taken into consideration. Based on these data, the distribution of the equilibrium concentration of the 161 species was obtained with the principle of chemical equilibrium. It was concluded that Si3N4 could be produced at the initial temperature of 300K up to the temperature 1560K, and the ideal deposition ratio r=SiCl4/(SiCl4+NH3) for Si3N4 was found to be 0.5.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)93-103
Number of pages11
JournalComputational and Theoretical Chemistry
Volume1051
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2015

Keywords

  • Accurate model chemistry
  • Chemical vapor deposition
  • Silicon nitride
  • Thermodynamics

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