Roughening of Si (111) surface under high-temperature thermal cycling
- 27 July 1987
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 51 (4), 250-252
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.98463
Abstract
High-resolution low-energy electron diffraction has been used to study the generation of defects on the surface of commercial Si (111) wafers under high-temperature thermal cycling in ultrahigh vacuum. We observed a gradual increase of single-atomic step density from 0.15 to 0.30% after several thermal annealings at ∼1200 °C. However, a reduction of step density, accompanied by a change of step height from single-atomic to double-atomic step height, was observed after the sample was annealed to near melting temperature (∼1400 °C). At the same time, the surface was broken into micrograins having a small mosaic orientation. Due to the limited instrumental resolution, these low-density step structures and the small-angle mosaic structures cannot be resolved by using the conventional low-energy electron diffraction technique.Keywords
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