• Title/Summary/Keyword: Computational Fluid Dy-namics(CFD)

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A Study on the Non-linear Surface Reaction Model for the GaAs Film Growth During MOCVD Process (MOCVD공정을 이용한 GaAs박막성장의 비선형 표면반응모델에 대한 연구)

  • Im, Ik-Tae
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.181-189
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    • 2008
  • GaAs film growth process from trimethylgallium(TMGa) and tertiary-butylarsine(TBAs) using a horizontal MOCVD reactor was numerically studied to explain the experimental result that the decreasing surface reaction rate as the increasing partial pressure of group III species. Using the non-linear model based on the Langmuir isotherm which considers the adsorption and desorption of molecules, film deposition over the entire reactor scale was predicted by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) with the aid of the parameters obtained from the selective area growth (SAG) technique. CFD Results using the non-linear surface reaction model with the parameters determined from the SAG experiments predicted too high film growth rate compared to the measured values at the downstream region where the temperature was decreased abruptly. The pairs of ($k_s^n$, K) from the numerical simulations was $(2.52{\times}10K^{-6}mol/m^2/s,\;1.6{\times}10^5m^3/mol)$, whereas the experimentally determined was $(3.58{\times}10^{-5}mol/m^2/s,\;6.9{\times}10^5m^3/mol)$.