Optical Characterization of Epitaxial Semiconductor Layers
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Book
Paperback/Softback
XVI, 429 pages
978-3-642-79680-7 (ISBN)
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The characterization of epitaxial layers and their surfaces has benefitted a lot from the enormous progress of optical analysis techniques during the last decade. In particular, the dramatic improvement of the structural quality of semiconductor epilayers and heterostructures results to a great deal from the level of sophistication achieved with such analysis techniques. First of all, optical techniques are nondestructive and their sensitivity has been improved to such an extent that nowadays the epilayer analysis can be performed on layers with thicknesses on the atomic scale. Furthermore, the spatial and temporal resolution have been pushed to such limits that real time observation of surface processes during epitaxial growth is possible with techniques like reflectance difference spectroscopy. Of course, optical spectroscopies complement techniques based on the inter action of electrons with matter, but whereas the latter usually require high or ultrahigh vacuum conditions, the former ones can be applied in different environments as well. This advantage could turn out extremely important for a rather technological point of view, i.e. for the surveillance of modern semiconductor processes. Despite the large potential of techniques based on the interaction of electromagnetic waves with surfaces and epilayers, optical techniques are apparently moving only slowly into this area of technology. One reason for this might be that some prejudices still exist regarding their sensitivity.
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XVI, 429 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-642-79680-7 (9783642796807)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-79678-4
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Günther Bauer | Wolfgang Richter
Optical Characterization of Epitaxial Semiconductor Layers
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12/1995
Springer
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Content
1 Introduction.- 2 Analysis of Epitaxial Growth.- 2.1 Vapour Phase Epitaxy: Basics.- 2.2 Gas Phase Diagnostics: Transport.- 2.3 Gas Phase Diagnostics: Reaction Kinetics.- 2.4 Surface Diagnostics.- 2.5 Conclusions.- 3 Spectroscopic Ellipsometry.- 3.1 Principle of Measurement.- 3.2 Experimental Details.- 3.3 Interpretation of the Effective Dielectric Function.- 3.4 Characteristic Experimental Examples.- 3.5 Sample Related Problems.- 3.6 Summary.- 4 Raman Spectroscopy.- 4.1 Theory of Raman Spectroscopy.- 4.2 Experimental Setup for Raman Scattering.- 4.3 Analysis of Lattice Dynamical Properties.- 4.4 Analysis of Electronic Properties.- 4.5 Band Bending at Interfaces.- 4.6 Summary.- 5 Far-Infrared Spectroscopy.- 5.1 Theoretical Foundations.- 5.2 Fourier Transform Spectroscopy.- 5.3 Determination of Layer Thicknesses.- 5.4 Determination of Carrier Concentrations.- 5.5 Confined Electron Systems.- 5.6 Determination of Impurity Concentrations.- 5.7 Shallow Donors and Acceptors.- 5.8 IR Characterisation of Porous Silicon Layers.- 5.9 Summary.- 6 High Resolution X-Ray Diffraction.- 6.1 Principal Scattering Geometries.- 6.2 Kinematical and Dynamical Theory.- 6.3 Thickness Dependence of Bragg Reflections.- 6.4 Strain Phenomena.- 6.5 Rocking-Curves from Heterostructures.- 6.6 Multilayer Structures.- 6.7 Scans in the Reciprocal Lattice.- 6.8 New Developments.- 6.9 Grazing-Incidence X-Ray Techniques.- 6.10 Reflection of X-Rays at Grazing Incidence.- 6.11 Specular and Non-Specular Scattering.- 6.12 Grazing-Incidence X-Ray Diffraction.- 6.13 Summary.- 6.14 Concluding Remarks.- References.