Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1998

Publication Title

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volume

45

Issue

1

First page number:

336

Last page number:

338

Abstract

A new thermal oxidation model based on a rate equation approach with concentration dependent diffusion coefficient is proposed for ultrathin SiO2 for thicknesses of the order of 100 Å. The oxidation reaction of silicon is assumed to be dependent on the concentrations of unreacted silicon and oxygen. The results of oxide thickness versus oxidation time for various growth conditions and activation energies for diffusion coefficients are in agreement with various experimental data for O2 ambient.

Keywords

Diffusion; Elemental semiconductors; Oxidation; Oxide coating; Reaction kinetics theory; Semiconductor process modeling; Semiconductors; Silicon; Silicon compounds

Comments

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