Abstract:
Amorphous Silicon Carbide (a-SiC
x) thin films were deposited via Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD) method at low substrate temperature (180℃). The deposited films were characterized with ellipsometer, RBS, XPS as well as FTIR techniques to give refractive index, deposition rate, Si/C ratio and chemical bonding configurations, the stress and wet etch rate of SiC
x films were also studied. By varying the deposition parameters, the correlation between the deposition parameters and properties were investigated. The results show that the deposited silicon carbide films have a good uniformity, and the composition range is 0.72-4.0. The films have compressive stress of (59)×10
8pa. The FTIR spectra show that the structure of the films varied with the composition.Comparing to the silicon nitride film, silicon carbide films have better etch resistance.