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Monitoring of the Surface Species on Silicon After Chemical Cleaning by FTIR Spectroscopy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Chan-Hwa Chung ,
Chang-Koo Kim  and
Sang Heup Moon
Chan-Hwa Chung
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
Chang-Koo Kim
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
Sang Heup Moon
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
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Abstract

For the analysis of as-cleaned surface, we have used a the unique IR method that uses a highsurface-area porous sample. We have observed by experiments that the oxide growth rate on silicon is reduced to a minimum when the surface is treated with a proper amount of HF vapor obtained from 1% I-IF solution. FTIR and XPS observations of the treated surface suggest that the oxide growth rate is closely related to the amount of the surface fluorides. In UV/O2 cleaning process, we have observed experimentally that addition of water vapor to cleaning gas stream enhances the cleaning efficiency by as much as 1.3 times.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 386: Symposium O – Ultraclean Semiconductor Processing Technology and Surface , 1995 , 291
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

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