Effect of the substrate on structure and properties of titanium nitride films grown by plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition

Igor Krylov, Xianbin Xu, Yuanshen Qi, Kamira Weinfeld, Valentina Korchnoy, Moshe Eizenberg, Dan Ritter

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Abstract

The authors deposited titanium nitride (TiN) films by plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition on various types of amorphous, polycrystalline, and single crystalline substrates and found that the crystallinity of the substrate strongly affects the morphology, orientation, and resistivity of the films. An appropriate substrate choice yields TiN films with bulk resistivity values of about ∼20 μω cm. The preferred crystallographic orientation of the films, either (111) or (001), does not affect film resistivity.

Original languageEnglish
Article number060905
JournalJournal of Vacuum Science and Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces and Films
Volume37
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2019
Externally publishedYes

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