Silicon epitaxy on hydrogen-terminated Si(001) surfaces using thermal and energetic beams
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Silicon epitaxy on hydrogen-terminated Si(001) surfaces has been studied using molecular dynamics simulations. Epitaxy on the dihydride-terminated Si(001 )-( 1 × 1) surface is inhibited for Si atoms at thermal energies due to strain hindrances created by hydrogen. At greater incident Si atom energies (2-10 eV), epitaxy proceeds primarily through "subplantation", i.e. subsurface implantation of the incident Si atom accompanied by segregation of Sill 2 during growth. The subplantation probability rises very rapidly with the incident-atom energy, a result which is consistent with the observation of epitaxial film growth on dihyride-terminated Si(001) by sputter deposition when under similar conditions conventional molecular beam epitaxy results in amorphous Si growth. On the hydrogen-terminated Si(001)-(2 × 1) surface, the simulation results suggest that both subplantation and hydrogen atom transfer to the incident Si atom are possible routes to epitaxy. © 1997 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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