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http://dx.doi.org/10.6117/kmeps.2012.19.1.075

Effects of Crystallinity and Stoichiometry on the Mobility of InSb Thin Films  

Lee, Jeong-Young (Department of Semiconductor Science and Technology, Chonbuk National University)
Lee, Byung-Soo (Division of Advanced materials Engineering, Chonbuk National University)
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Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society / v.19, no.1, 2012 , pp. 75-80 More about this Journal
Abstract
$InSb$ films were fabricated by DC magnetron sputtering and the effects of deposition temperature, heat treatment, passivation from evaporation and multi-layered structure were investigated. Electron mobility and electron concentration were linearly increased with deposition temperature for as-deposited specimens. It was found that the mobilities depend on the grain size rather than the stoichiometry for the samples with very low mobilities. The mobilities largely increased for the specimens with evaporation passivation compared with those without passivation layer. The mobility also increased with the amount of indium deposition in the multi-layer structured $InSb$ films. It was found that the mobility increments in both cases are due to the matching of the stoichiometry in $InSb$ films. For the heat treated and passivated specimens, the mobilities increased with annealing time and the maximum mobility was measured as 1612 $cm^2$/Vs.
Keywords
DC magnetron sputtering; $InSb$; Mobility; Passivation; Multi-layer;
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