Ex situ spectroscopic ellipsometry and Raman spectroscopy investigations of chemical vapor deposited sulfur incorporated nanocrystalline carbon thin films

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Gupta, S
Weiner, BR
Morell, G
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[1] Univ Puerto Rico, Dept Phys, San Juan, PR 00931 USA
[2] Univ Puerto Rico, Dept Chem, San Juan, PR 00931 USA
[3] Univ Puerto Rico, Dept Phys & Phys Sci, San Juan, PR 00931 USA
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10.1063/1.1511269
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Sulfur incorporated nanocrystalline carbon (n-C:S) thin films were grown on molybdenum substrates by a hot-filament chemical vapor deposition technique using gas mixtures of methane, hydrogen, and a range of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) concentrations (100-500 ppm with an interval of 100 ppm) at a fixed substrate temperature of 900 degreesC. They were optically characterized using Raman spectroscopy (RS) and ex situ spectroscopic phase modulated ellipsometry from near-infrared to near UV (1.5-5.0 eV) obtaining their vibrational frequencies and pseudodielectric function, respectively, as a function of [H2S]. The ellipsometry data [<epsilon(r)(E)>,<epsilon(i)(E)>] were modeled using Bruggeman effective-medium theory and dispersion relations for the amorphous semiconductors: Forouhi and Bloomer (FB) parameterization model. A simplified two-layer model consisting of a top layer comprising an aggregate mixture of sp(3)C+sp(2)C+void and a bulk layer (L-2), defined as a dense amorphized FB-modeled material, was found to simulate the data reasonably well. Through these simulations, it was possible to estimate the dielectric function of our n-C:S material, along with the optical band gap (E-g), film thickness (d), void fraction (f(v)), and roughness layer (sigma) as a function of H2S concentration. The physical interpretation of the five modeling parameters obtained in the amorphous dispersion model applied to the case of n-C:S thin films is discussed. The Raman and ellipsometry results indicate that the average size of nanocrystallites in the sulfur-incorporated carbon thin films becomes smaller with increasing H2S concentration, consistent with atomic force microscopy measurements where the distribution of grain size yielded a gamma around 20 nm. The band gap was found to decrease systematically with increasing H2S concentration, indicating an enhancement of pi-bonded carbon (sp(2)C), in agreement with RS results. These results are compared to those obtained for films grown without sulfur (n-C), in order to study the influence of sulfur addition on film microstructure. These analyses led to a correlation between the film microstructure and its electronic properties. (C) 2002 American Institute of Physics.
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