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  • Viktor V. Luchinin
  • Svetlana I. Goloudina
  • Vyacheslav M. Pasyuta
  • Mikhail F. Panov
  • Alexander N. Smirnov
  • Demid A. Kirilenko
  • Tatyana F. Semenova
  • Valentina P. Sklizkova
  • Iosif V. Gofman
  • Valentin M. Svetlichnyi
  • Vladislav V. Kudryavtsev

High-quality crystalline nano-thin SiC films on Si substrates were prepared by carbonization of polyimide (PI) Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films. The obtained films were characterized by Fourier transform-infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis, Raman spectroscopy, transmission electon microscopy (TEM), transmission electron diffraction (TED), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). We demonstrated that the carbonization of a PI film on a Si substrate at 1000 °C leads to the formation of a carbon film and SiC nanocrystals on the Si substrate. It was found that five planes in the 3C-SiC(111) film are aligned with four Si(111) planes. As a result of repeated annealing of PI films containing 121 layers at 1200 °C crystalline SiC films were formed on the Si substrate. It was shown that the SiC films (35 nm) grown on Si(111) at 1200 °C have a mainly cubic 3C-SiC structure with small amount of hexagonal polytypes. Only 3C-SiC films (30 nm) were formed on the Si(100) substrate at the same temperature. It was shown that the SiC films (30-35 nm) can cover the voids with size up to 10μm in the Si substrate. The current- voltage (I-V) characteristics of the n-Si/n-SiC heterostructure were obtained by conductive atomic force microscopy.

Original languageEnglish
Article number06GH08
JournalJapanese Journal of Applied Physics
Volume56
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2017

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