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Electrical Transport and In-Situ X-Ray Studies of the Formation of TiSi2 Thin Films on Si

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

J. C. Hensel ,
J. M. Vandenberg ,
L. F. Mattheiss ,
F. C. Unterwald  and
A. Maury
J. C. Hensel
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
J. M. Vandenberg
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
L. F. Mattheiss
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
F. C. Unterwald
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
A. Maury
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Allentown, Pennsylvania 18103
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Abstract

The formation of TiSi2 thin films on Si has been investigated by in situ x-ray diffraction and by electrical transport. The x-ray results show unequivocally that the staging proceeds through two orthorhombic polytypes of TiSi2 according to the sequence: sputter-deposited metallic Ti films on Si (001) → TiSi2 (C49 structure) → TiSi2 (C54 structure), with no evidence of lower suicides. Electrical transport shows metallic behavior for all phases and distinctive features in the annealing curves which correlate with the structural transformations. Most importantly, the resistivity, characteristically very high for the C49 phase, undergoes a precipitous drop at the C49 → C54 transition. Total energies for both phases are calculated and, consistent with the occurrence of a structural phase transformation, are found not to differ appreciably.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 77: Symposium D – Interfaces, Superlattices, and Thin Films , 1986 , 737
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1987

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